Steph’s moving on Wednesday (TOMORROW), to be Artist in Residence for three months in a city (Singapore) that’s enough like the ancestral home (Penang) to be familiar, but dissimilar enough that she’s probably going to spend the first two weeks flipping her shit. Do you want to know about what she’s up to? OF COURSE YOU DO. LIVE VICARIOUSLY. (Liz will.)
Month: August 2016
Recent(ish) Australian music we have loved
Some great Aussie albums and songs have come out recently! Along with, um, less recent albums that we’ve only lately discovered! Open up your earholes and have a listen.
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Second Form at Malory Towers – Chapter 8
Previously: Alicia and Betty play a trick so nice, they try it twice — with an unwanted twist from Darrell. Alicia, based on no evidence whatsoever, decides that Sally put Darrell up to it.
Just one chapter this week, because I’m trying to get back into that nice, logical odd-even two-chapter post pattern.
Liz liveblogs Joe Cinque’s Consolation
Or, Old White Lady Goes To Court For The Very First Time. Being a record of thoughts, quotes, headdesk moments and more as I read Helen Garner’s book.
Previously: Liz goes to the movies: Joe Cinque’s Consolation.
Content warnings: abuse, murder, eating disorders, ableism, sexism, racism.
Elementary Malay, prepared as a guide for R.A.A.F. personnel
Elementary Malay, prepared as a guide for R.A.A.F. personnel, issued for the information and guidance of all concerned
By Command of the Air Board
August 1944
Because Steph’s moving to Singapore next week, and I bet you didn’t know she collects vintage language guides.
[Liz: how did I not know this? It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.]
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These links are going straight to the pool room
Our #auscore aesthetic just got that much more meta.
Sisters sacked by Channel Seven after lodging sexual harassment complaint
Pokémon GO, Ingress and Niantic: A Tale of Developer Apathy Ruining Massive Potential
Steph flipped her shit at this: Urban Camo: Bus & Train Fabrics Turned into Wearable Textiles
Steph super loves seeing how gendered languages deal with stuff: A camp tries to reinvent the Hebrew language, so transgender kids can fit in
Elizabeth Fitzgerald offers up a list of 50 Australian women writing SFF.
Some USA Olympic athlete claimed he was robbed at gunpoint in Rio, but security footage shows him kicking in the doors at places. Anyway, about that: Ryan Lochte Is One of Many Privileged First-World Tourists—and Brazilians Are Fed Up
while people in Brazil are very quick to criticize the Olympics, they frankly don’t want to hear it from people whose main complaints are not about that displacement, corruption, or militarization but instead are about the tourist experience.
[Liz notes: but Tumblr assured me that Brazil’s opening ceremony was the most progressive and inclusive ever, and that means it’s a utopian paradise!]
Modern China is so crazy it needs a new literary genre
By Cate: Kitchen Table Activism: How to Host a Letter-Writing Party
very lolstralian things steph said or heard at the footy on the weekend
We’re not saying she said them, but we’re not not-saying she said them
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museum shops of the world:museum für kommunikation frankfurt
Steph actually bought things from this Museum shop, hooray! (Sadly, she wasn’t able to buy these sheeps made from rotary telephones)
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take me flying on the magic linkspam
Steph went to see Leonardo’s Bride last night, a band she never saw in her youth on account of being too young and on the wrong coast. Other 90s antipodean bands she’s seen as an adult: Crowded House, Monique Brumby, Frente!. All she needs now is Hunters + Collectors and she’ll have her own personal fave complete set.
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