Is anyone interested in getting a team together for the Melbourne City Romp? It looks like fun...

Much of the following is copied from a post on crazyjane13's journal, but is deserving of wider circulation. (The copied bits are in blue.)

Get Your New and Easily Abused Police Powers Here:

World Youth Day, a gathering of Catholic youth for celebrations, workshops and religious observances, is to be held in Sydney later this year. The WYD website ( Read more... )

From Pro Choice Victoria: ( A cry for sensible law reform - now with working hyperlinks! )

This isn't to anyone's address, so please don't take it personally. I know how it must look, especially since I've been saying I wouldn't be bitter about my recent return to the ranks of the involuntarily single ( Read more... )

This isn't a bad little meme at all, gankt from fizit, who is also the originator of said memage.

Pick someone, anyone from your friends list and tell us how you met.
You can re-do this as may times as you like :P

( So many names to choose from )

I am still trying to decide which of my various short fictions to use as the first Friday Fiction on the new blog. I don't want to just re-use something I'd already put up on your_dead_mate (well, not yet, and not unedited), but I currently have three different stories sitting in the "I thought I'd be finished writing you" files ( Read more... )

Look, it's all very nice that Merriam-Webster have nominated w00t as their word of the year. It is. It's full of the w00ty goodness, and don't think for a moment that I don't love the absolute perfection that the word itself is the only fitting response to the news of its w00ty accomplishment ( Read more... )

I've always been kinda annoyed by one of the odder pieces of etiquette in El Jay Land. Specifically, the practice of thinning out one's friends list, then posting an assurance that there was nothing personal about it. Because, frankly, unless you selected which names to remove completely randomly, you applied some sort of criteria to the ( Read more... )