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Five very helpful people who helped me and The Precinct out by filling in our Cop Action Survey will now be receiving an original Precinct drawing by me. I won't announce who they are, but I now have to draw Precinct characters: * in a shower scene, with rude
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I spent 2009 planning and scheming and writing and talking and thinking. Lots of thinking! This was all good stuff to do, in addition to the freelance work I had. But I did very little MAKING of STUFF! I made a zine of some of my old articles and prose
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The video art piece I'll be remembered for after I'm dead. Funny for Back to the Future 2 fans. Maybe. At least it's out of my system now.
Corporate bullshit
Melbourne's well-known rock pub The Tote Hotel closed on Monday due to financial pressures partially caused by the Victorian government's new liquor licensing system. See here, or Google News "tote". I looked at the study which brought about the new system and it
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I registered for a myki pass today, and when I did, the myki people immediately called me up and asked if I would pass this letter on to as many friends as possible. Apparently their computer is broken, or doesn't have enough RAM to send an e-mail,
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Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that my blog now auto-posts my Tweets. I have no idea if this is annoying or useful, but since it keeps the blog current, I'm in favour of it. I minimise the number of tweets, keep them reasonably on-topic (cop
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I noticed today that a brand new web domain has appeared: http://www.docklandsentertainment.com/. There's nothing there but a single JPEG. It's the first episode of what appears to be a new comic strip. Lord only knows who did it, but it may amuse some
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I love this little article from the Australian Writer's Guild magazine. It's by P.J. Hogan, director of Muriel's Wedding. The stuff about Lift-Off feels familiar.
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Going to get a video of my MEGA pitch up as soon as I get hold of the (undoubtedly embarrassing) clip, but this is a summary of where The Precinct is now (also a summary of my pitch), as written for the MEGA guys: Australia doesn’t have its own
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Bernard Caleo's launching not only the new issue of Tango ("the romance comics anthology") next Thursday night at Dante's Upstairs, he's also launching the big-arse TANGO ANTHOLOGY which has been published by Allen & Unwin! Should be a big night, featuring
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The MEGA pitch went really well! Unfortunately, none of the broadcasters or entertainment types Justin invited actually showed! True, the pitches were happening right in the middle of the work day, but still... not good enough, ABC and SBS. You really had something better to do?... TEN THINGS THE REPS
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Leadership Lately I'd been thinking about all the work I've been doing toward getting The Precinct happening. It's kept me very busy, but probably not as busy as I would be if were making the show itself. So I probably need to get used