June 2009
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“We writers tell our friends and children, there is nothing more sacrosanct, more...”
– The truth about writers / via The Rumpus
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How to get an entry level job in the creative...
1. Know someone. It helps if your dad is friends with the editor, or if you went to school with the assistant director. 2. Happen to be doing work experience the month they’re hiring and make a really good impression.
There’s also 3. Be qualified for the job and really, really lucky, but it’s safe to say that you shouldn’t rely on that one.*
I’ve written before...
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Dating is serious, hooking up is sport and other... →
This story over at NPR attracted a fair bit of attention on my Google Alerts last week, derivative as it was of Laura Sessions Stepp, that New York Times article, and countless other moral panic-inspiring media about young people’s sexual habits.
The general gist of the piece is that “hooking up” isn’t just something college and high school students do, but something...
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“What that means is that you have contact with many, many more people, but each...”
– 25-year-old May Wilkerson, in the NPR story Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships
I had a similar conversation with my dad on the weekend. He wondered if perhaps young adults were becoming more flaky in their relationships (we were talking about friendships, not romances here) because...
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Embracing the medium: what makes a successful... →
Angela Meyer at LiteraryMinded has some good advice for cultural bloggers (which yes, also includes some very flattering comments about me).
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Adelaide Advertiser tackles teen social networking... →
POTS, for example, equals Parent Over The Shoulder.
When I was a teenager and talking to friends on the phone (OMGZ, old school), we’d just throw the word “Heather” into the conversation when a parent came near. “Oh my god! Can you believe what Heather did the other day?”, etc etc.
It wasn’t exactly subtle. I think my mum picked up pretty quickly that she was...
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Sexually assaulting women with your friends...
One of the most annoying threads to emerge from the whole NRL/Cronulla/Matt Johns/Clare/group sex/gang rape discussion a few weeks back was this whole idea that big, bulky, hyper-masculine football players bonding with their friends over group sex was somehow “gay”. (HAHAHA! Because being gay is lame, you know. And girly! And no one wants to be girly.)
In fact, if this article by...
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“Miranda Kerr is the ultimate symbol of unattainability. Men can’t have her...”
– Tim McIntyre, commenter on Mama Mia.
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“This thesis will investigate, through an analysis of media, popular culture and...”
– Four hours until uni assignment due. Fortunately, what hasn’t been written is all inside my head. (I think.)
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Sydney Film Festival is all systems go →
The Sydney Film Festival starts tonight and, as my Facebook status puts it, I’m kind of ‘amped’. Like most festivals, it always seems to fall at a busy time of year (perhaps because every time of year is a busy one), but it also offers an opportunity to see a calibre of interesting films that normally only screen around Oscar season.
As you’ll see below, my picks are...
May 2009
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Reviewed before read: Yes Means Yes! Visions of...
I’m only three essays into this anthology, but I can already tell it’ll be the kind of book that will have me bubbling over with excitement, “yes!” moments, and enthusiastic shilling to friends.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise - those who pay as much attention to my thoughts as I do will remember that I listed one of the works in it as one of my...
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