Adelaide is hot. Has anyone else noticed that Adelaide is hot? It's hot. So from minus degrees to uncomfortable warmth, I travel where the world takes me, a grand explorer, excited by the possibilities and temperaments of each new place. Oh fuck it, just stop being hot Adelaide!* I've been dripping sweat all day. Though one positive result, for the ( Read more... )

I have my ticket to Amanda Palmer in the Spiegeltent, Garden of Unearthly Delights, 4 March. Man, I hope I can get the time off.

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One more week my friends and I zoom through the air in a marvellous flying contraption to frolic and cavort in an explosive city called Adelaide smack bang (boom!) in the middle of festival season. The Adelaide Fringe Festival is everything that makes me excited to be part of the world at the moment - art, colour, community, daring, family, freedom ( Read more... )

Come here Melbourne, I want to give you a big sloppy kiss.

There’s free wireless at the Southbank Centre. I’ve had to resist the urge to throw my arms to the air and exclaim ‘I love you free wireless more than is acceptable for a woman to love!’ I did say it in my head though. There was applause and nervous laughter (as I imagined it so ( Read more... )

My London routine has been mildly shambolic. It's the end-of-days for this trip across the seas, and I think I'm about ready to head on home. I've missed shows by going to wrong venues (whoops, Southbank Centre, that was for the other show) or by arriving just a little too late (more than once, actually). At least the last show had pre-sold out its ( Read more... )

Originally posted by daniel_bethany. Reposted by me.

This is from the Electronic Frontiers Australia website:

Electronic Frontiers Australia has today launched a petition against the Government’s mandatory Internet filtering policy that will be presented to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia.

You can sign the petition electronically by going to the ( Read more... )

I'm close to losing my voice. This is after I had a conversation with Emilly about how I rarely get sick (twice in a month, pft!). I think the universe is trying to teach me something valuable. I refuse to pay attention.

I've been trying to post at least once from every city along the way. Alas, Edinburgh, I barely got to see you at all; 24 hours and I was already back on the road. Nevertheless I did get to achieve what I planned, which was to wander around the city (which, admittedly, isn't that big) and orient myself. Yes, that was the grand plan. The last few ( Read more... )

The Museum of Communism gift shop is a glorious thing, offering both Communist propaganda posters as well as parody posters. I bought one serious, one not so much. Guess which one it is below:


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