Dear David Foster Wallace ( Read more... )

AN OPEN LETTER TO TISC ( Read more... )

Last week at Cottonmouth there were many excellent performers and a whole bunch of beer. I wasn't actually too nervous about it, because usually I am okay at public speaking, but about three minutes before I was due to read I started freaking out a little bit and by the time I was on stage I was kind of seeing everything through the wrong end of a ( Read more... )

I'm reading at Cottonmouth on Wednesday night. I am both excited and terrified. Also, I just re-read the piece I am supposed to be reading and it kind of sucks. There's kind of no point to it. Which is a bit awkward. But maybe I can insert a point by Wednesday ( Read more... )

SCARY/ARDUOUS/DIFFICULT THINGS I HAVE SURVIVED RECENTLY

1. The Great TAFE Timetable Fuckup of 2008.
2. 24 Hr Drawing Marathon.
3. The First Page Exhibition & Launch.
4. Super Massive TAFE Auction.
5. Slamming My Finger In The Car Door.

Here's what I think about August: August is VERY FULL. Way to be the busiest thirty-one days of my entire life,

SO IF YOU ARE FREE ON SATURDAY THE 26TH, IE TOMORROW...

...You should come and visit me. I will be at Tafe, doing a 24-hour drawing marathon. It's being run by Hannah Bertram (the current artist-in-residence) and another artist called Louise Grant, both from Melbourne. Hannah Bertram makes these fucking amazing installations using dust and dry ( Read more... )

MY TWO MOST FAVOURITE PIECES OF SPAM THIS WEEK, REPRODUCED HERE FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE

1. From: GERING BERGEM. Pot-candy llawsuit. - Halloha, Ha, ha, ha!! With a peniss of your's it's only ppossible to fuckk a TThumbelina!

2. From: LIFLAND STUFFLEBEAN. Dutch animmal rightss party wins 2 seats in election - Salut, Brring your wife We'll fuuck her! ( Read more... )

So, when I mentioned that everyone in the book is exceptionally talented, but it came out sounding all self-congratulatory? Well, obviously I didn't actually mean it like that. I meant all my FRIENDS in the book are talented. Yet another Freudian blah blah blah ( Read more... )

I went to Taka (oh how I love Taka! So cheap! So delicious! So filling!) with stephmor on Wednesday and we decided we would Write, like that with a capital W, and we did. It was awesome. I wrote the draft of a whole entire short story, bar the first four sentences which were languishing in my notebook from weeks ago. And now it's finished. Are you proud, ( Read more... )

I've been drawing comic strips on filing cards. I drew a comic strip about my sister and her encounter with a giant teacup and a lot of tiny cacti. Maybe if I can get to a scanner, I'll post it for you.

Here are some of the things I have dreamed recently: I had a horribly sore throat, I accidentally cut my hair really short again and was too ( Read more... )