About five years ago I wrote a script for a short film called “The Ballad of the History of Trying to Break John Howard’s Knees”, a lovely singalong tale of how our then-Prime Minister, John Winston Howard, has always had to escape brutal knee-beatings. Those knees secrete some kind of powerful magic, tempting violence from…
Precinct Cop Action Survey winners!
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 bits obscured by “PG steam” “in space”…
All plans and no followthrough makes David edgy
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 writing and took it to…
POWAAA!
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.
The Tote’s closure
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 made me mad. So I wrote letters to some politicians about it….
myki: a message to all Victorians
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, or something. So here’s their letter to all…