Hey, writers, editors, readers and other bookish people ... This is a great opportunity for you:
Inaugural Meeting for Mimesis Publishing Cooperative
This meeting is to establishing a Publishing Cooperative dedicated to scholarly works for discerning readers.
It is recommended that we adopt the government guaranteed model rules for a non-trading cooperative.
July 3, 3pm at Borderlands (Augustine Centre, 2 Minona Street Hawthorn - 5 minutes walk from Auburn Station)
The meeting is estimated to take less than 1 hour.
Please attend to indicate your interest in this project.
Last night I attended the Tariq Ali public meeting at the Melbourne Town Hall, which was filled to capacity. Ali's main points were as follows. (1) The so-called new soverign government is merely a puppet government for the occupying forces. (2) The intelligence of the Iraqi resistance and the speed at which it has been organized is unexpected and extraordinary. (3) The war requires massive support in the media of occupying countries (which, it should be added, hasn't been received). (4) The resistance will grow, the puppet government will become more repressive and the occupying forces will become more reliant. (5) The United Nations has become servile to the United States (see Security Council resolution 1546). (6) Noone who has experienced colonial oppression has been surprised by the torture photos or the results of the occupation. (7) The war is a demonstration of US imperial power - thus some other imperialist nations opposed it. And most importantly (8)The result of the war will determine international politics for the 21st century. After the meeting I managed to get Ali's signature on 1968 Marching in the Streets, a great dairy/photo journal of the international protests of that very eventful year.
Saturday evening was spent with a small cadre of science fiction fans for Tim Richards' fourtieth birthday gathering at the ScuBar, who provided food as only a science fiction fan can provide. There is one of the worst photos of me ever taken at the birthday pics site.
Saturday day was spent in Beveridge with![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
smilesnspiders, and a small cadre of others including ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cold_echo, baralier, littlecountess, kerberos_3 and vampiiria. There were a dozen of us all told, and the afternoon was spent at the Kilmore Celtic festival which had bagpipes, young lasses dancing, various Celtic prints and other kitsch. I noted the typical lack of Breton influence among the anglophone Celts. Hmmph. Anyone would think that this - the largest collection of Celts in the world - didn't actually exist.
Apart from the Celtic festival we spent quite some time at smailesnspiders.caseopaya and I had to leave at very early in the morning - one train at 0700 and the next wasn't until 1330 - and were duly informed that our rats weren't supposed to be on the V/Line as they were considered livestock! Anyway, the conductor turned a blind eye on the dear beasties, and attended the rat weigh in - Monte at 490 grams, Mouse (yes, a rat called 'Mouse') at 565 grams and the fattest rat of them all, Harley at 570 grams - and he's lost weight!.
Sunday's presentation at Church was not a particularly good presentation on the current situation in Cuba (it had more to do with the history than the current situation). However, they managed to contribute to my march towards becoming Rev. Dr. tcpip continues. On August 1st I'm giving a presentation at the Melbourne Unitarian Church on "The Future of the Human Species" (artificial intelligence, genetic engineering etc) and on August 8th I'm conducting the service.
Brain breaker of the week is work-related and it's not funny. Fromreddragdiva. Stop using Internet Explorer. No, really. This is serious. And as part of a running history of IE security flaws it really is time you changed your brower.
This meeting is to establishing a Publishing Cooperative dedicated to scholarly works for discerning readers.
It is recommended that we adopt the government guaranteed model rules for a non-trading cooperative.
July 3, 3pm at Borderlands (Augustine Centre, 2 Minona Street Hawthorn - 5 minutes walk from Auburn Station)
The meeting is estimated to take less than 1 hour.
Please attend to indicate your interest in this project.
Last night I attended the Tariq Ali public meeting at the Melbourne Town Hall, which was filled to capacity. Ali's main points were as follows. (1) The so-called new soverign government is merely a puppet government for the occupying forces. (2) The intelligence of the Iraqi resistance and the speed at which it has been organized is unexpected and extraordinary. (3) The war requires massive support in the media of occupying countries (which, it should be added, hasn't been received). (4) The resistance will grow, the puppet government will become more repressive and the occupying forces will become more reliant. (5) The United Nations has become servile to the United States (see Security Council resolution 1546). (6) Noone who has experienced colonial oppression has been surprised by the torture photos or the results of the occupation. (7) The war is a demonstration of US imperial power - thus some other imperialist nations opposed it. And most importantly (8)The result of the war will determine international politics for the 21st century. After the meeting I managed to get Ali's signature on 1968 Marching in the Streets, a great dairy/photo journal of the international protests of that very eventful year.
Saturday evening was spent with a small cadre of science fiction fans for Tim Richards' fourtieth birthday gathering at the ScuBar, who provided food as only a science fiction fan can provide. There is one of the worst photos of me ever taken at the birthday pics site.
Saturday day was spent in Beveridge with
smilesnspiders, and a small cadre of others including cold_echo, baralier, littlecountess, kerberos_3 and vampiiria. There were a dozen of us all told, and the afternoon was spent at the Kilmore Celtic festival which had bagpipes, young lasses dancing, various Celtic prints and other kitsch. I noted the typical lack of Breton influence among the anglophone Celts. Hmmph. Anyone would think that this - the largest collection of Celts in the world - didn't actually exist.Apart from the Celtic festival we spent quite some time at smailesnspiders.
caseopaya and I had to leave at very early in the morning - one train at 0700 and the next wasn't until 1330 - and were duly informed that our rats weren't supposed to be on the V/Line as they were considered livestock! Anyway, the conductor turned a blind eye on the dear beasties, and attended the rat weigh in - Monte at 490 grams, Mouse (yes, a rat called 'Mouse') at 565 grams and the fattest rat of them all, Harley at 570 grams - and he's lost weight!.Sunday's presentation at Church was not a particularly good presentation on the current situation in Cuba (it had more to do with the history than the current situation). However, they managed to contribute to my march towards becoming Rev. Dr. tcpip continues. On August 1st I'm giving a presentation at the Melbourne Unitarian Church on "The Future of the Human Species" (artificial intelligence, genetic engineering etc) and on August 8th I'm conducting the service.
Brain breaker of the week is work-related and it's not funny. From
reddragdiva. Stop using Internet Explorer. No, really. This is serious. And as part of a running history of IE security flaws it really is time you changed your brower.