The lovely montjoye put on a birthday lunch for me on Good Friday at her house. There was the two of us, drwacky, mishymoocow, her hubby, quatrefoil, sjkasabi and HLG, bar_barra and tyggerjai. So a select group.

There was lots of great food contributed by various guests, with montjoye providing most of it. I was given some rather lovely presents, and enjoyed the company and conversation much. I was perhaps a little ( Read more... )

The Melbourne Queer Film Festival is on again. I have enjoyed going in previous years, but am feeling very unenthusiastic about it this year. Watching pretty people angst over romance has lost some of its appeal. There are no gay men in my Melbourne friendship network and I almost certainly never going to trust anyone outside my friendship network ( Read more... )

Monday night, I went to a paper on Monstrosities of Nature: Demonic Possession, Ambiguous Gender and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Iberian World at Melbourne University which drwhacky had emailed me to tell me about. (It says interesting things about me that [1] she thought I would be interested and [2] I was, went and enjoyed it ( Read more... )

Having coffee with bar_barra and Sam H at Seddon Deadly Sins, having bar_barra summarise F. Nietszche's philosophy as "I really wish I had a girlfriend".

bar_barra leading me to think I should look more into Daoism ( Read more... )

I have watched a lot of queer films over the years. The following links are to a website that has a rating of top 10 gay films. Of which I have seen:

C.R.A.Z.Y., Brokeback Mountain, Head On, Beautiful Thing, Yossi and Jagger and Latter Days (which I also own ( Read more... )

We have to be extra nice to wizard_foots because his 18 year old cat Monsieur had to be euthanised on Monday.

Recently read Melusine, which is an amazingly good debut fantasy. A lush novel, rife with decadent magic as Jacqueline Carey, another favourite fantasy author of mine, says on the cover. Not only that, a female novelist who can actually do gay characters. Not as girls-with-penises a la Mercedes Lackey but as having testosterone ( Read more... )