Bubbles
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A dogs gotta do what a dogs gotta do.
Keeping things under my control.
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 81-82: Most assuredly, it was time for an entirely new route. Petermann had read Silas Bent’s …...
It's not very often that I get feedback on the blog posts I write. Some of my friends have the distinct privilege (or curse?) of hashing out my ideas over the course of days, weeks, months, sometimes years before they ever become posts,...
UpdatesWork remains in a holding pattern. Layoffs were announced weeks ago and we're still waiting on the specifics. Who stays, who goes, what the new shape looks like. Everyone is planning in the abstract, running scenarios, having...
Fantastic Film Festival Australia, 23 April to 15 May.Film festival mode is now complete having been to Lido to see another 30 movies since Hokum. I keep the film reviews and reflections to my Letterboxd account so I won't be repeating...
As part of my book group I have compiled a few “Top 10” or “Top 5” lists and some of these have been very hard to put together, as invariably I have so many books I want to include. To date there are lists for my favourite 1920s, 1930s...