slackbastard- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #206 w Dr Stephanie Wescott on Andrew Tate & misogyny in the classroom : May 9, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #205 w Jordana Silverstein on history, Palestine, Zionism & more : May 2, 2024
- May Day in Melbourne : 2024
- antifa notes (april 24, 2024) : right-wing extremism and inquiring minds
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #204 w Fran Amery on ‘organised transphobia’ : April 25, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #203 w Alex Hanna on AI hype, surveillance, war & work : April 18, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #202 w Tyler West on Southern Africa in the political imagination of New Zealand’s radical right : April 4, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #201 w Chris Wilson on the Christchurch terrorist, Australia & 4chan : March 28, 2024
- #LetWomenSpeak (2023) ~vs~ #WomenWillSpeak (2024) in Naarm/Melbourne
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #200 w Andy Fleming & Cam Smith : March 21, 2024
- Plashing Vole
Tag Archives: Exploration
onward, ever onward
Now I’m back from Nepal and ensconced in the usual things the temptation is to start to dream afresh, to find a new escape tunnel. But I’m not really escaping in any meaningful sense, just looking out the window and that … Continue reading
Posted in domesticity
Tagged camino de santiago, choices, Exploration, Falklands, Fitness, Middle Age, royal np, saturday afternoons, Weight Loss, work life balance
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inside passage to pokhara
In Jonathan Raban’s beautiful book Passage to Juneau he connects the story to of his boat journey to Juneau, Alaska, to his sense of wonder at being where he is and doing what he’s doing and how extraordinary it is … Continue reading
Posted in domesticity, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged Alaska, Annapurna, choices, Exploration, Family, Fatherhood, Fitness, Freedom, Hope, Jonathan Raban, Love, Middle Age, Nepal, Pacific Northwest, Passage to Juneau, Trekking, Vancouver
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is a dream a lie if it don’t come true, or is it something worse?
So I won’t be going to the Falklands. There are a number of reasons, mostly to do with cash and the expense of getting myself across the Pacific and then halfway across the Atlantic. I could spend a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged Exploration, Falklands, Family, Trekking, work life balance
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Another big walk
Another big story I have read recently was the tale of H.M Stanley and Emin Pasha in Equatoria. What a story!! After the fall of Khartoum it was decided to leave the Southern province of the Egyptian Sudan to wither … Continue reading
Three Year Walk
I’ve read a good deal about Lewis and Clark recently and their three year tramp across the north and west of what is now the US. And there it is, Lewis and Clark introduce everything into language, describing, noting, transforming … Continue reading
Posted in books and shit, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged Colonialism, Exploration, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Travel
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Rustichello's Folly 