I have a bevy of wonderful links for you all! First up, there are two new posts on Po’Boy! “Reports from the Kingdom of Life, Part 1,” the beginning of a Utopian travelogue in an artistic enclave, and “Bad Jobs,” a discussion of the regrettable things we do for the crust. Did you know that [...]
Lettres
Wherein the Author reflects upon certain topical & personal issues of the Day.
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Po’Boy and the Arcane Practices of History
Posted upon the 21st of November, 2010
My old chum Andrew has a new project which you really should see – a marvellous mag which goes by the name of Po’Boy! You can already read my debut article there – So You’ve Travelled Back In Time, a string of antique conchiolin deposits of wisdom for the cautious Connecticut Yankee. I thought I [...]
Euchronia, and, The Interview In Full
Posted upon the 24th of October, 2010
Heigh ho, all! If you haven’t seen it already, I have some very good news for you! Euchronia – Melbourne’s steampunk ball par excellence, whose success in its 2008 run can only be described as ‘frabjous’ – returns this year, this time transforming The Substation Arts Centre, Newport (a hair’s breadth from Newport station, on [...]
Hegel: An Analogy of Hegel
Posted upon the 12th of October, 2010
Georg Hegel is very likely the world’s best-known philosopher of history (though not, if I might be candid, the world’s best philosopher of history.) Of course, in some circles, Hegel is chiefly remembered for influencing Marx… and in others, Marx is chiefly remembered for deriving from Hegel. Academia is nothing if not delightfully inconsistent, no? [...]
Dandies in the Underworld and Fops in the Clouds
Posted upon the 26th of September, 2010
Here’s a curious business! A couple of months ago, a writer – Ms Baran-Unland – dropped me a line, explaining that she was working on a novel with a nineteenth-century setting – Bryony, scheduled for publication for the turn of 2011 – and was interested, for research and for the entertainment of the readers of [...]
An Index of Criminality
Posted upon the 20th of September, 2010
Bugger me sideways, what have I been doing instead of posting, eh? Assembling scale models? Drinking gin from out of a scale model? Unacceptable, rubbish, rot! I have, I’m afraid, been engaged in honest toil; meaningful employment in a minor government position, in fact! I’ve joined the bowler-hatted throng of public servants, wielding umbrella and [...]
The Reading of The Will
Posted upon the 20th of August, 2010
So often has it been said, and with such wisdom, that where there’s a will, there’s relations. In this case, the relation was Damien Samuel Calgary, medical student, delayed by an upset luggage cart at the station and hurrying through the slush on the solicitor’s lawn. “Germaine!” – his cousin, the sister of the deceased. [...]
So, Politics
Posted upon the 8th of August, 2010
We’re having a federal election in two weeks! I’m following as much electoral news as I can stand – which isn’t terribly much; the rhetoric’s hard to stomach this year – but I don’t have a great deal to say about the whole business. The bulk of the campaign seems to be the two major [...]