Went to see Ionesco's Exit the King, starring Geoffrey Rush, at the Malthouse - an absurdist play recently retranslated by Rush & Neil Armfield, the director. Basically, the king is dying, and his country's dying in parallel (and maybe that's why he's dying). Over the course of the shortish play he has everything possible reaction to the ( Read more... )

With Stephen Fry replacing Douglas Adams... should be good. This production company seem to be using Stephen Fry a fair bit, which is always okay by me!

From the GetUp! website:

The Burrup rock carvings in Western Australia are a little-known Indigenous site that includes one of the earliest identified images of a human face and the now-extinct Tasmanian Tiger. Right now the oldest and largest collection of rock carvings in the world - some of it six times older than the Pyramids - is being ( Read more... )

Since Easter last year I've been a member of the cooperative that puts out Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, an Australian-based sf and fantasy small press magazine. Unlike most of the people who are in the co-op, I'm not aiming to become a published fiction writer, but am really interested in editing fiction, and how you get the best out of ( Read more... )

As someone who likes running cons, as well as other people who like running cons, I might try to get to Conrunner 2008 - definitely less intimidating than one of the (largely US-based) SMOFcons (oops - gave away the secret.... ;-)  )

"How to talk to girls at parties", read by the author himself, is available on Gaiman's website.

"The Shakespeare Code": much better than The DaVinci Code. Or so I suspect - I've not actually read the latter!

Anyway, the second episode of the new season is pretty fab, particularly if you're a fan of the Bard (a reference Will wouldn't get, at least according to Gareth Roberts) - a huge number of Shakespearian references jammed into a fun ( Read more... )

Have been listening to the new Aqualung album, Memory Man, today (while trying to work, but not really succeeding). Still in the 'not quite sure how much I like it' stage of processing it, before I (probably) move into the 'oh-alright-it's-obsessively  listening to it' stage.

At the moment my favourites are "Pressure Suit" (the first single, so I' ( Read more... )

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