Monthly Archives: September 2008
Dang!
The hole. I told you about the hole, didn’t I? How a hole opened up in the backyard some months back, possibly where an old sceptic tank had been? Well, it’s getting filled right now. It’s effing huge. Looks like it’s gonna take several cubic metres of dirt to fill. Near as we can tell … Continue reading
Eclipse Two updated
Last Thursday Harry Turtledove confirmed that, sadly, we were going to have to pull his story from Eclipse Two. This was a possibility we’d been discussing since he first submitted the story, was entirely amicable, and had to do with negotiating permissions for some quotes that he’d used. It was disappointing news, but hopefully the … Continue reading
Go-Betweens and Russell B. Farr
Time and alcohol draw a veil over many things: specific dates, exactly who was there, precisely what was played. Still, I watched a documentary on the making of The Go-Betweens extraordinary final album, 16 Lovers Lane, and was motivated to send a shout out from the blog to my friend, Russell B. Farr. Sometime during … Continue reading
We hear what we want to hear
Colin Barnett, recently reinstalled leader of the WA Liberal Party, says he believes that the WA electorate has stated that it wants the Liberal Party to the govern. This was said not long after current Premier, Allen Carpenter, had said that things were so close that the most likely outcome was a hung parliament. While … Continue reading
The Liberal Party has, appparently, won the Western Australian State Election. I don’t know what I think. I guess Alan Carpenterfailed to impress.
