Sky Hulk

Country Chinese

At the end of last year, we made sure to have a holiday so we spent a relaxing week doing next to nothing at a seaside town. We took the opportunity to eat at the local Chinese restaurant, the Four Seasons...

Lines On A Map

I’ve been re-reading one of my all time favourite books, Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, which fictionalises the friendship between the astronomer and the surveyor as they observe the transit of Venus...

When They Closed The Riverside Expressway

In 2006, I was living in Brisbane and working as a grad at a building services company. I had just bought my first half-decent bike, a Giant flat-bar road bike, and had started riding to work...

Me and Pet Semetary

When I was 10, my older sister and her friends went to see Pet Semetary at the movies, and let me tag along...

Some Music From Japan

A couple of weeks ago I returned from Japan after a three week holiday with my husband. One of the best things about the trip – and there were many best things – was the live music we saw...

Cunningham's Gap

If you were to drive up the Cunningham Highway from Brisbane through to Warwick, you cross the Main Range part of the Great Dividing Range at Cunningham’s Gap...

I, Gremlins Scholar

You may have heard of the Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies birdsite account and its accompanying online open access journal, the Quarterly Journal of Gremlins 2 Studies, which is yet to publish its first issue...

Sky Hulk

There’s a building in my neighbourhood that’s been under construction since 2016, a 25-storey behemoth with a podium and three towers...