by kat | Feb 16, 2020 | Movies
When I was 10, my older sister and her friends went to see Pet Semetary at the movies, and let me tag along. I have clear memories of them explaining to the teenage member of staff working the cinema door that “she’s mature for her age”. And so they...
by kat | Feb 1, 2020 | Music
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. Here I’ll share some of the most notable, for my own memory...
by kat | Nov 27, 2019 | Reading
Some notes on the book I just finished, and the next one I’m going to read. K. Sainz Borgo (2019). It would be night in Caracas. HarperCollins, NY. When I bought this I did have an inkling that its politics might be a bit iffy to my mind. Well, that turned out...
by kat | Nov 10, 2019 | Reading
Some notes on the book I just finished, and the next one I’m going to read. J. Demers (2015). Drone and Apocalypse: An exhibit catalog for the end of the world. Zero Books, Croyden UK. N. Shute (1957). On the beach. Vintage, London UK. Drone and Apocalypse is a...
by kat | Nov 2, 2019 | Buildings
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.* It’s a winding ascent, the kind where you really don’t want to get stuck behind a truck....
by kat | Oct 26, 2019 | Reading
Some notes on the book I just finished, and the next one I’m going to read. T. J. Entwisle (2014). Sprinter and Sprummer: Australia’s changing seasons. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. I had for some time wanted to read something about a system of seasons...
by kat | Oct 18, 2019 | Buildings, Movies
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. One might argue it’s not a real journal, but I...
by kat | Oct 13, 2019 | Meta
There’s a building in my neighbourhood that’s been under construction since 2016, a 25-storey behemoth with a podium and three towers. It’s part of a precinct that’s in the process of flipping old industrial sites to high rise residential....
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