My article 'Hijacking of a nation: Democracy and self determination are a farce in occupied Iraq' is now available on the web. Comments very welcome.

It has been published in a NZ leftie magazine called Foreign Control Watchdog - it normally prints about 500 copies, most going to members of CAFCA. It has been a custom in Foreign Control Watchdog ( Read more... )

Spent the afternoon today catching up with cousin L at the Dux over cold beer. excellent ( Read more... )

Monday night I started to get a bad cold. On Tuesday morning it developed into a flu. Went back to bed, watched some Babylon 5 on DVD and slept. Later that afternoon my auntie A and my two young cousins, M (12) and J (10) arrived to spend a few days in chch with us. I was disappointed to be feeling sick as I was looking forward to seeing them ( Read more... )

Saw 'Secret Window' at the movies Friday night. Mr Depp is great at playing freaks, and best of all he has the ability to play a wide variety of freaks. I find it refreshing going to a movie with a 'big name star' actually acting, instead of just being their familiar archetype. In 'Secret Window' the familar obsessions of Stephen King, such as ( Read more... )

Had a good time catching up with my friend Q who was in town for the last couple of days. Met up in town for a few drinks on Thursday and headed along to a party at Tom's place. As I had not been drinking that much recently, the three wines I had in town made me slightly chemically inconvenienced by the time my bottle of cider arrived at the ( Read more... )

There was a reason for me not updating my journal last week.

On Saturday I finished an article I have been working on - 'Hijacking of a Nation: Democracy and Self-Determination are a Farce in Occupied Iraq'.
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On Sunday I went with Mum down to Timaru to visit my Nan in her rest home. I had not seen her since before I went away overseas for 15 months - so I was quite looking forward to seeing how she was. I thought she had noticeably aged, but that may have been due to the way they have permed her hair - its a very stereotypical look for an old lady, ( Read more... )

Saw the DramaSoc production of "Lysistrata" this week - one of Aristophanes more dodgy comedies. Its the one where the women of Greece decide to abstain from sex in order to encourage the men to stop a war. Good fun and laughs. Thought aquitaine had some good lines ( Read more... )

A week or so ago I was at a party and a hand waved at me from the couch on the other side of the porch. It turned out to be muggie2, the friend I saw when I did my whistle stop tour of South Korea. I did not know he was in NZ so it was a good surprise. Last night we caught up over some tea. He cooked a hungarian paprikia chicken dish which was nice. ( Read more... )

The march and rally organised by Peace Action Network on Saturday went well. Around 300 people turned up, which is pretty good for a rally in Christchurch. I wrote the press release that was sent out to the media after the march, and it was quoted in the Christchurch Press (p2) and Wellington papers this morning. C was the MC for the march so we ( Read more... )