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Reynardo and A Breton Fox, Mimesis, Marlon Brando, Too many articles and Ruxcon.
Last Tuesday was spent at Breizoz a Breton restaurant in Williamstown with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
severina_242. There was a small army of el-jay people and caballists, and had the opportunity to have some discussion with dr_zero, unsworn, lederhosen, and of course, the birthday girl herself, reynardo. Lovely building, lovely food and and of course, true to the Breton style, apple cider.
The existence of this Breton touch nullifies my complaints about the lack of Breton influence at the Kilmore Celtic festival in my last post. To add a further degree of appropriateness for a reynardo birthday gathering when we changed at Newport station I encountered on the nature strip between the train station and Melbourne Road a grey fox. Seriously - less then 8 km from the centre of a city of some three million people in a suburbian and semi-industrial area there lives a quite well-fed grey fox. I had a little chat to it and tried to take some pictures, but unfortunately they didn't turn out.
Saturday was initially spent with at the executive meeting for Labor for Refugees. It seems that the rest of the state branches have gone quiet, whilst the Vic branch is getting increasingly active. Five more local ALP branches have affiliated since our last meeting.
Saturday afternoon was the initial meeting for the Mimesis Publishing Cooperative. It was good initial gathering, with Jacque Boulet explaining the organizational differences between Associations and Cooperatives and myself bouncing around ideas on how the thing should run. There were a few el-jay people present there as well -caseopaya, p_cat, punctured_lung, tabouli - we were also graced by the presence of the author of pollbludger, the best site (imo) of Australian electoral analysis.
Marlon Brando died on Monday. I never thought too much of him as an actor, but liked him as a person. His words, from the Newsweek of March 13, 1973, explain why. In rememberance,caseopaya and I watched "On The Waterfront". I have always been particularly impressed by Karl Malden's role as Father Barry in that film. The sort of priest I could actually like.
I am drowning in articles. I have two to write for the peer-reviewed section of New Community Quarterly (I really must do something for their website), one being a review of a god-awful book entitled "Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practise" and a theory paper on the definitions of culture and community in reference to the online word. Add that to my as yet unfinished papers to the Journal of Liberal Religion and the International Journal for Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems. Meanwhile, after some delay, Bad Subjects have finally managed to put out my article on wage slavery and the work for the dole scheme.
This weekend I'll be in Sydney for Ruxcon. Appropriately, the author of the Bagle virus has released the assembler code. Sydney people please email me for an opportunity to catch up. It's been a few years since I've been to Syn city, so I'm looking forward to it.
Good news department fromcaseopaya. Patients tell of diabetes cure.
Bad news department.
Aids levels hit record high.
Stupid news department. Tony Blair admits that WMDs may never be found. Maybe because they didn't exist Tony?
On a related topicerudito and myself have been having (and we often do) a low-key debate over the nature or the Iraqi resistance. This gives a least some profile. I confess I have difficulties with this. I loathe the idea of one nation invading another and hold the principles of self-determination and soverignity high. I also loathe states based on authoritarian religious law (the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq for example, claims that fundamentalists are the "main threat"). I am also concerned that if the United States "wins" this conflict then they will engage in whatever military adventures they want with impunity.
Brain breaker of the week. God and Jesus are republicans.
severina_242. There was a small army of el-jay people and caballists, and had the opportunity to have some discussion with dr_zero, unsworn, lederhosen, and of course, the birthday girl herself, reynardo. Lovely building, lovely food and and of course, true to the Breton style, apple cider.The existence of this Breton touch nullifies my complaints about the lack of Breton influence at the Kilmore Celtic festival in my last post. To add a further degree of appropriateness for a reynardo birthday gathering when we changed at Newport station I encountered on the nature strip between the train station and Melbourne Road a grey fox. Seriously - less then 8 km from the centre of a city of some three million people in a suburbian and semi-industrial area there lives a quite well-fed grey fox. I had a little chat to it and tried to take some pictures, but unfortunately they didn't turn out.
Saturday was initially spent with at the executive meeting for Labor for Refugees. It seems that the rest of the state branches have gone quiet, whilst the Vic branch is getting increasingly active. Five more local ALP branches have affiliated since our last meeting.
Saturday afternoon was the initial meeting for the Mimesis Publishing Cooperative. It was good initial gathering, with Jacque Boulet explaining the organizational differences between Associations and Cooperatives and myself bouncing around ideas on how the thing should run. There were a few el-jay people present there as well -
caseopaya, p_cat, punctured_lung, tabouli - we were also graced by the presence of the author of pollbludger, the best site (imo) of Australian electoral analysis.Marlon Brando died on Monday. I never thought too much of him as an actor, but liked him as a person. His words, from the Newsweek of March 13, 1973, explain why. In rememberance,
caseopaya and I watched "On The Waterfront". I have always been particularly impressed by Karl Malden's role as Father Barry in that film. The sort of priest I could actually like.I am drowning in articles. I have two to write for the peer-reviewed section of New Community Quarterly (I really must do something for their website), one being a review of a god-awful book entitled "Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practise" and a theory paper on the definitions of culture and community in reference to the online word. Add that to my as yet unfinished papers to the Journal of Liberal Religion and the International Journal for Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems. Meanwhile, after some delay, Bad Subjects have finally managed to put out my article on wage slavery and the work for the dole scheme.
This weekend I'll be in Sydney for Ruxcon. Appropriately, the author of the Bagle virus has released the assembler code. Sydney people please email me for an opportunity to catch up. It's been a few years since I've been to Syn city, so I'm looking forward to it.
Good news department from
caseopaya. Patients tell of diabetes cure.Bad news department.
Aids levels hit record high.
Stupid news department. Tony Blair admits that WMDs may never be found. Maybe because they didn't exist Tony?
On a related topic
erudito and myself have been having (and we often do) a low-key debate over the nature or the Iraqi resistance. This gives a least some profile. I confess I have difficulties with this. I loathe the idea of one nation invading another and hold the principles of self-determination and soverignity high. I also loathe states based on authoritarian religious law (the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq for example, claims that fundamentalists are the "main threat"). I am also concerned that if the United States "wins" this conflict then they will engage in whatever military adventures they want with impunity.Brain breaker of the week. God and Jesus are republicans.
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I must have left my beret in the tardis...
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