One week and i'll be back to Sydney for a week of Mardi Gras fun and most importantly Spring Awakening. I've kinda been watching some of the clips and I'm not entirely sold but I think that's because i've been listening to the OBC for far too long and anything that sounds different is gonna take some getting used to... and that means I need to ( Read more... )

This book was interesting. It's the autobiography of a former Fundamentalist Mormon who grew up in a polygamist community. At 18 she was married off to a 50 year old with 3 other wives and for the next 17 years she was treated like a slave/punching bag/baby maker. She eventually escaped with her 8 children raging in ages from 15 down to 2 after ( Read more... )

I watch tv shows about polygamists (Big Love), a serial killer (Dexter), swingers in the 70's (Swingtown) and have seen more horror movies than I can count. I'm pretty open minded about pretty much anything. So when I say congratulations for finally finding a way to squick me out please take that as a compliment ( Read more... )

I don't get bookstores... they know it's gonna sell out they have a heap of pre-orders but they only get enough copies to fill their existing pre-orders without stocking the shelf. Okay it was my fault for not pre-ordering but heck if i didn't pre-order Harry Potter and got a copy no problem I figured this wouldn't be too hard. I called the ( Read more... )

( Slight spoilers for the first 130 pages of Star Trek TNG: Before Dishonour )

Just finished reading "People In Glass Houses - An Insiders Story of Life In and Out of Hillsong" by Tanya Levin. I'm not gonna comment on much of the book because I really don't think I can do it justice and from a theological standpoint I really have no right to comment. I've never been overly religious, i've never been to any church regularly ( Read more... )

Haven't done this for awhile but i got some decent finds while wandering around the Rundle St Mall yesterday so i thought i'd post about it.

Books
Went through a couple of book stores and found Flirting With Pride & Prejudice - Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece . It's a collection of essays edited by Jennifer Cruise from ( Read more... )

I_palimpsest tagged me ( Read more... )

I realised too many of my posts lately have been about work or work related people. Now part of that is that I’m pretty much living my work at the moment but I thought I should try and post something different ( Read more... )