I haven’t been in a good mood since the election. I was sweating blood over a blog post. Then I read AC Griffiths’ lyrical defence of voting Liberal in the Sydney Morning Herald, and it took my breath away. Thirty years ago, I remember, that was me. I only wish there’d been someone to give … More Why I voted Greens/Labor – a reply to AC Griffiths
Now, now, now, this will not do; these infrequent, ambivalent entries with indifferent pictures of half-formed ideas. Nothing organised, not even connected to my social media. (Yes, still looking for a media assistant/manager. Call me.) I didn’t know what I wanted this blog to be. News from the studio? Snippets from the study? Documentation, commentary, … More To begin anew
I’ve been reading Leonard Shlain’s The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, a twenty-year-old book I’d never heard of till days ago. The author’s thesis, in a very crude nutshell, is that the invention of writing rewired the human brain by prioritising left-brain functions (linear, abstract, masculine) at the cost of right-brain ones (wholistic, visual, feminine), and … More My Missing Link
At the heart of all the sound and fury over marriage equality is a vacuum — a silent bubble of incomprehension created in the gulf between two very different understandings of marriage. Sydney Anglican Archbishop Glenn Davies, forced to defend Standing Committee’s decision to donate $1 million from the Diocesan Endowment Fund to the “No” … More Marriage: lovers’ pact or “creation ordinance”?
Jack Laurian Pascoe 