June 2011
1 post
RT @SummersAnne: Even Kafka could never have imagined Westfield Bondi Junction
May 2011
2 posts
Making my triumphant (possibly temporary) return to Twitter
Worth reading. #osama http://nyti.ms/m4rwzg
October 2010
1 post
God I wish Australia had a newspaper even half as good as the New York Times. http://nyti.ms/a4qLPY
August 2010
15 posts
Every time I see a picture of Justin Bieber I wonder if he’s some sort of joke the music industry is playing on the world.
RT @mumbletwits: You might be onto something RT @latikambourke Maybe the focus groups from Lindsay said ‘no Arbib on #qanda?’
RT @hilltophoods: If I vote for the sex party will hookers be cheaper or just more uppity?
And hopefully the minimalism of this election will be remembered as a low point rather than a sign of things to come. #ausvotes
The problem with modern Aus politics is that both parties have almost totally discarded ideology and prefer straight populism. #ausvotes
The Greens are a partial solution, but we need all parties to have ideologies they can fight over. #ausvotes
Instead, the parties can try to enthuse people across the spectrum rather than just competing to throw money at the mortgage belt. #ausvotes
We should switch to voluntary voting. It won’t change everything, but it’ll stop the insane focus on one particular demographic #ausvotes
This thought is not easy to express on Twitter, but it’s important that we explore ways to bring back ideology in our politics. #ausvotes
Perils of doing ancient history: whenever I write ‘latrones’ (Latin for ‘brigands’) it autocorrects to ‘latrines’. Have to be on the ball
The Drum’s opening credits seem to promise diverse, intelligent debate, and yet we’re given Concetta Fierravanti-Wells #ausvotes #abcnews24
Abbott: “bonds are not government debt”. Right. #ausvotes
Hey Julia, apparently there’s a stage of education after school that isn’t an apprenticeship. What was it called again? #ausvotes
BER complaints / Overblown by unread rag / The Australian @annabelcrabb #electionhaiku #ausvotes
The Trail of Genghis Khan on ABC2 is completely incredible. Watch it. (It’s on iView as well so you have no excuse.)
July 2010
10 posts
Hey #abcnews24, can you stop with all the channel Nine-style vox pops? Surely your journos have better things to do @abcnews
I wonder if Barrie Cassidy feels isolated being in some studio in Melbourne while everyone else is being clubby in Sydney and Canberra?
Talk about the death of political oratory. Churchill is spinning in his grave #ausvotes
Tony Abbott informing us of how much he loves the wimminz, as long as they spend their time doing the ironing #ausvotes
Oh dear, those technical problems are turning up on #abcnews24
All the self-congratulation on #abcnews24 may be annoying, but the ABC still have by far the best news service in this country
Shame that #abcnews24 is using an Atlantic-centred map world map rather than a Pacific-centred one
Think you’re gangsta, popped a few rounds? These kids can come through and murder a whole town #LupeQuotes
I was a bit ambivalent about the new BBC News site at first, but it’s really starting to grow on me
Whoever Emma Dench is, I am v. unimpressed with her chapter in the Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography.
June 2010
11 posts
…so they’re going to not declare a winner? Why does that deserve a cliffhanger? #masterchef
Gillard moving straight to an election footing with attacks on Abbott
This is heartbreaking. Poor Kevin. He did a lot of good stuff, even if he did cripple his prime ministership in some respects
Ticky Fullerton is hosting Lateline Business now? Maybe I should watch LL/LLB more than once a year
The ABC’s traditional massive technical problems are here with a vengeance #spill
So apparently ABC News Breakfast thinks the World Cup is more important than Stanley McChrystal being sacked? Rather skewed priorities
“Envy that he doesn’t have a chef like me.” Nice non sequitur Aaron #masterchef
I’ve been ambivalent about this season of #masterchef but the London week is fantastic. Heston Blumenthal’s dishes are incredible
“How does one roll pastry that thin?” I like someone who’s not afraid to use the third person #masterchef
So it turns out that for my thesis I need to examine 3000 occurrences of a word in a language I don’t know. I may need to rethink this
Wilcannia is a really depressing place to visit, nice to see that things might be starting to pick up there. http://bit.ly/bNsaEY
May 2010
40 posts
Christ BP has spent almost a billion dollars trying to stop the oil leak.
RT @BernardKeane: OMG!!!!!! There’s some aspect of human activity not regulated! Quick, regulate it and tax it before civilization ends! …
Is there anything the @cspan website doesn’t have? You can even watch live video of the Gulf oil spill from 1.5km underwater
Peter Kavanagh supports free speech so much, he wants to ban Yusuf Islam from entering Australia because he expressed his opinion
I don’t really see how a massive, largely non-means-tested handout means that the Liberal party is ‘moving away from Howard’.
Rand Paul is intelligent and thoughtful, but like many libertarians he takes his principles too far and ignores the real-world consequences
I had Vanilla Ice stuck in my head just last week and now I’m being exposed to it again? Dammit
“As soon as I figure out the difference between slander and libel, I’m filing a lawsuit.”
Glad that Seven’s scummy, amoral attack on David Campbell is attracting plenty of blowback.
ALP engaging in some nice hypocrisy by using govt money to advertise its policy, just like they said they wouldn’t do in 2007