Watched a show on ABC2 last night - Werewolves: The Dark Survivors. (Australian readers will be able to see it on iView here for the next 12 days.)

Basically, it's a werewolf documentary-type set up, following a detective who's investigating some human deaths that initially looked like animal attacks (and a zoologist who was investigating the ( Read more... )

• My dad, inspired by the golf tournament, pulled out a putter and some balls and started practicing in the middle of the living room. Basil decided this was boring* and stood right in the middle - catching all the balls that came at him. Best game ever! Also, he started cheating and approaching closer and closer to my dad until I distracted him by ( Read more... )

There's something up with my sister. I just know there is.

I haven't been following her when she goes out or anything. But I hear things. See things. She closes down her email account when I'm around. At first I thought it was some boyfriend I wasn't supposed to know about. But then I saw her email, briefly, before she realised I was there, from ( Read more... )

A mysterious, unsigned letter arrives one day.
[Logo of a shield with stars on it.]

19th February 2051

[Name and address of your hero.]

Dear [hero],

We realise this is a little unconventional to contact you like this at your private home, and apologise for the intrusion, but we believe this is a matter that justifies a more direct approach. We have a ( Read more... )

Well that last quiz was certainly popular. Never mind, I shall draw for myself, when I can. Perhaps I'll end up with 30 by the end of this month, perhaps not.

Yesterday was Unicon. It was also the AFL grand final, and the last weekend of the Royal Melbourne Show. The train was fairly busy, as you'd expect (mainly because of the latter two, rather ( Read more... )