ouch

by jebni on February 26, 2005

RSI bad.

precocity

by jebni on February 20, 2005

I’ve been meaning to declare that despite everyone’s collective need to whine about American pop culture’s inane fascination with precocious kids, I think Dakota Fanning — the compulsive PDA-fetishist girl from Cat In The Hat, and now child star of (…)

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and lo, it was done

by jebni on February 7, 2005

Through a well-timed email, I’ve just managed to get Suad Amiry, author of Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, to the Sydney Writers’ Festival this May. I am now inordinately pleased with myself. [ technorati tags: delusions-of-grandeur, megalomania, palestine, books ]

powerpop and the echoes of empire

by jebni on February 7, 2005

I’ve recently spent a lot of time with my niece and nephews, tagging along with their obsessive, serial re-viewings of particular Powerpuff Girls episodes. I particularly love the way Josh, my six-year-old brunette nephew, indentifies so totally with Bubbles, the (…)

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