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| Wendy’s tips for celebrating Australia Day…or not | January 25, 2009 | It’s Australia Day. The day where we are all supposed to paint our faces with yellow and green zinc cream and shout “oi,oi, oi”. How will I be “celebrating” Australia Day? Here’s a list of things I don’t plan to do: 1. sing waltzing matilda2. wear a hat with corks around it3. boil a billy4. […] |
| Wendy’s Week of TV: Part 23 | December 20, 2008 | Saturday: Iron Chef After weeks of arguing with my parents as to whether Iron Chef is rigged because the challenger never wins…..FINALLY….a challenger won. See! See! See! (It was an egg battle). More entertaining would have been if they had just thrown them at each other in true egg-fight style. Tuesday: Well of course it […] |
| Wendy’s Week of TV: Part 23 | Saturday: Iron Chef After weeks of arguing with my parents as to whether Iron Chef is rigged because the challenger never wins…..FINALLY….a challenger won. See! See! See! (It was an egg battle). More entertaining would have been if they had just thrown them at each other in true egg-fight style. Tuesday: Well of course it […] |
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| of crochet, bad poetry and pumpkins | I’m now having some time to browse around my laptop (which until this week had sat unopened in the hall cupboard for nearly two years). So far I have found numerous terrible thesis chapter drafts which I think I shall delete, as well as some really awful poetry (embarrassing). I also found I had bookmarked […] |
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| of crochet, bad poetry and pumpkins | I’m now having some time to browse around my laptop (which until this week had sat unopened in the hall cupboard for nearly two years). So far I have found numerous terrible thesis chapter drafts which I think I shall delete, as well as some really awful poetry (embarrassing). I also found I had bookmarked […] |
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| love on the dole…with a phd | October 4, 2008 | I couldn’t resist this book as I passed the second hand shop this morning. Looks like a corker of a “sparkling new comedy from Thames TV” (1980). The write-up on the back tells us: He’s a highly-qualified, lightning witted, ultra-bright freelance layabout. His girlfriend Fran wants him to settle down to the pursuit of fame […] |
| love on the dole…with a phd | I couldn’t resist this book as I passed the second hand shop this morning. Looks like a corker of a “sparkling new comedy from Thames TV” (1980). The write-up on the back tells us: He’s a highly-qualified, lightning witted, ultra-bright freelance layabout. His girlfriend Fran wants him to settle down to the pursuit of fame […] |
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| uses of literacy | June 10, 2008 | In Brisbane for four days over the long weekend I was delighted to find a secondhand bookshop in south brisbane where I picked up a copy of Richard Hoggart’s Uses of Literacy. I have been keen to read this ever since John Hartley published his Uses of Television inspired by Hoggart. Quaint cover…. |
| uses of literacy | In Brisbane for four days over the long weekend I was delighted to find a secondhand bookshop in south brisbane where I picked up a copy of Richard Hoggart’s Uses of Literacy. I have been keen to read this ever since John Hartley published his Uses of Television inspired by Hoggart. Quaint cover…. |
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| I blog therefore…. | June 3, 2008 | Well I’ve started this whole blogging caper. Only about a decade later than everyone else in the big wide world of the web – but you know what they say – better late than never. (Actually i hate it when I find myself saying that).I’ve been checking out various blogs – academic and otherwise lately. […] |