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2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
August 2008
- why, yes, it is all about me. isn't it?
- oh call my name. you know my name.
- the lies you tell in liverpool will follow you to spain
- we know the start, we know the end
- simple != easy
- there is vanishingly little point to this story
- cold. very cold. very very cold.
- i (still) can't think of anything
- you've chased the sun around the cote d'azur
- not to be melodramatic or anything
- it's a rich man's world
- i can has internet?
July 2008
- there's a hole in my bucket, dear liza
- ACK
- is it the apocalypse yet...?
- i think it's called murphy's law?
- i've just examined my life and found it wanting
- where's your dunkirk spirit?
- take this sinking boat and point it home
- the mind is full of razors
- just a small town girl
- today
- more doctor? more?
- we got married in a fever
- dreams of ice and wings
- 89.3%
June 2008
- boom de yada!
- 64.6%
- an update in points
- call me back when the war is over, call me back when your boyfriend's gone
- it's your oldest trick and your cheapest one
- and the money i save won't buy my youth again
- today i am homesick for travelling
- save the night for weeping
- not waving, drowning
- poor (zombie) mudpuddle
- the writer ... er, at work?
May 2008
- you can be the mystery that i am over trying to solve
- i've found i'm scared to know i'm always on your mind
- little things i should have said and done
- digging a hole and the walls are caving in
- on the topic of what makes me happy
- apropos of nothing...
- that's what's going to happen
- from here on out it gets tricky
- some days the bear wins
- chased so much and lost my way, maybe a face for every day
- oh. those books
- but the wind goes right through you it's no place for the old
- it's been a long cold lonely winter
- i thought i needed a girl of each kind, one for the body and one for the mind
- I'll tell you all of the things that you'll never forget
- pterodactyls are the least of my confusion
- it's a godawful small affair
- the land of the ... "rolling pin"
- why are you singing?
April 2008
- the burning lake
- send me photographs and souvenirs
- here and now not forever
- home again, home again
- log di jay gey
- everybody
paniccelebrate! - you paralysed my mind and for that you suck
- how not to spend your weekend
- i'm going to bhutan!
March 2008
- i've had some time to think about you
- ugh
- I suggest a reading of a Lesson in Tightropes
- i've created a monster
- adelaide, in pictures
- five things, the adelaide version
- adelaide
- i have measured out my life with coffee spoons
- there may still be some gaps in transmission...
- we now return you to your scheduled programming
- the next day mr earbrass is conscious but very little more
- it's not my fault!
- state of the beta draft
- two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
February 2008
- you're going where...?
- ha! i scoff at your fears!
- irrational = me
- write first
- precision. it's important.
- still i push my barrow all the day
- books!
- sorry
- conversations with medicare
- the macrae field
- those who can count, and those who can't
- melbourne: the duration
- melbourne: the arrival
January 2008
- ay to the effin' men
- a random assortment
- i should have been a pair of ragged claws
- the stars look very different today...
- it's spider season
- hold onto nothing as fast as you can
- writers neuroses, eleventy-bajillion and one:
- actually, it kinda fits
- one, two, three and I'm safe
- it's raining, it's pouring
- make it stop
- somewhat belated
- forget jumping in puddles, no more bare feet for me
- i got no time for private consultation...
- no more jumping in puddles for me
- subtle salvation in poems and prose
- 0.0
- are they leather-bound pounds?
- let me 'splain. no, there is too much: let me sum up.
- story love
December 2007
- 'tis the season...
- sshh, don't tell anyone...
- where were you when we took calais?
- i suppose i could call it an interesting day
- there's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day
- five three things make a post
November 2007
- is that a stick in your balustrading...?
- it leads you here, despite your destination...
- it's a deal!
- ground control to major tom...
- he coulda died
- name that book! (please?)
- bad writer. no biscuit.
- doomed, i tell you
- w00t!
- i can has stigmata sunburn!
- and then there were two
October 2007
- today, i am waiting.
- none too bright
- today was a good day
- the land of stuck
- wordy rice!
- when market forces go bad good
- somewhere in the darkness, the gambler, he broke even...
- i wish you would...
- into the woods and outta the woods...
- and darling, we go a-drowning...
- five random things make a post
- on the q-word
September 2007
- all i have to do is hit quota, after all
- once, in flight school, i was laconic
- focus. yeah, i've heard of that.
- good as a holiday, i'm told
