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A techno Doctor and other bots of note
I’ve been taking a quick, running look at the Digital Writers Festival. I’ve added something about my writing space at Mapping the Words, (I’m all jammed in with the other Sydney writers) and I’ve tried to spot truly human poems in a literary Turing Test at Bot or Not. For example: The other, the Romantic…
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Once more unto the breach
Chinese New Year has always seemed to me a more civilised start to the year. January is holiday time, time for relaxing into late nights and lazy mornings. Kids who are detangled from stress. But that time is over, for better or for worse, and courage must be summoned to enter into the affray of…
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Happy New Year
Of all the resolutions I’d like to make, this is the one I really want to strive for: Happiness. May you find some too this new year.
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Luigi Prina’s wondrous flying ships
These beautiful flying ships by Luigi Prina make me want to dance through the sky. They are delicate balsa wood and paper creations, but tough, with rubber band mechanisms that will last 20 years. See more of Prina’s work at Colossal or Blinking City
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A little older, a little…
I love these aging superhero paintings by Andreas Englund. You can see more of his work here. Maybe I’m not as old as the man in this one, but I know the feeling – do I really have to fight these ninjas on my way back home? But I also love the way the series…
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Characters, story and very long tales
My husband watched the final of the most recent series of Mad Men last night. We both of us cycle between love for the show and not being able to bear watching. Depression sets in! He was pleased (and this is a little spoilery) that Don Draper’s character was bringing some of his past out…
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Redeeming qualities
My daughter is finishing her last year of school and we, her parents, have been asked by the school to write her a letter outlining her “redeeming qualities”. Implying, however unintentionally, that there is something to redeem. And in a final year of school where stress, work, general teenagerness and more stress have taken their…
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In the Night Garden
Tabula Rasa is curating In the Night Garden, one of the events of the 2013 Sydney Fringe Festival. And a few of my words are going to be there, illuminated as part of the night. Here’s a summary: In the crevices of a darkened world in the back streets of St Peters glow exotic urban…
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Shopping perils
I went shopping with my daughter yesterday. She’s a gorgeous, slim, 17 year-old, though right now slightly feral from the HSC. It was her idea, a treat after yesterday’s exam and with a whole three days to study for the next. And she was cashed up, ready to spend her hard earned money. So, you’ll…
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