This is about World Youth Day, something that as a Sydneysider has been hard to ignore recently. I’ll say up front that I’m not religious…
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Bought Sallie a large pantry cupboard for all the preserving today (she paid but I went and got it!) And as I put it together…
Leave a CommentI haven’t felt very inspired recently. About most things. There’s a reason I write about family here most of the time — it’s easily the…
Leave a CommentWatched 30 Rock for the first time in weeks tonight. Damn it’s funny. Funnier than most supposed sitcoms in primetime. Naturally, Seven puts it on…
Leave a CommentI’ve sort of known this for a while, but part of building yourself (or your writing, music, whatever) as a popular brand and successful business,…
Leave a CommentIt’s funny to see that David E Kelley has clearly just had enough of the state of his nation right now — every week on…
Leave a CommentTalking Points Memo is a political blog/commentary/news site from the US that I’ve read for years now, and it’s top notch. It’s leftish, but a…
Leave a CommentThe whole family went to Flemington today, for I think the third time, to the Paddy’s Food Markets. Until recently, it was something I’d never…
Leave a CommentScalzi has another great post commenting on the latest “unbelievable but really not unbelievable at all” idiocy from Fox News about Barack Obama. It’s all…
Leave a CommentAn interesting story from the Boston Globe today , talking about the pressures that many top writers feel from publishers desperate to have them write…
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