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Day-to-day minutiae.

  • mez > meaning

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  • Michael Joyce on afternoon: a story and teaching electronic literature

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    I find that my students are often much more able than I am to move easily between print and electronic media and to see the value in each. Remember that I am very much a creature of print culture and so always an alien to even the revolution in which I play a part. Like…

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  • Blackbox Manifold

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    I’m really pleased to say that three works from my Leaves of Glass MS – namely, ‘Cute’, ‘Rivet’ and ‘Swagman Ted’ – have found an electronic home in UK-based online journal Blackbox Manifold. I’ve almost lost count of how many of these Whitman (left) vs O’Dowd poems have now been published, but I’m starting to…

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  • Fnärr, fnärr

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    It’s been a long time since I perused the pages of Viz, that slightly juvenile and yet deeply funny British comic series complete with the usual assortment of puerile characters (including Scooter Dolphin Boy, Sid the Sexist and – perhaps more pertinently here – Finbarr Saunders and His Amazing Double Entendres). Since arriving in Karlskrona…

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  • Ten women who shook my world*

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    In celebration of International Women’s Day, here’s some Youtube gold from some of my favourite women musical artists from the late 1980s and early 1990s. First up, Bilinda Butcher sings My Bloody Valentine‘s certified indie-dance crossover shredder, ‘Soon’.

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  • Amnesia Lane: the Shirt Pant

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    We’ve all committed the occasional fashion faux pas. In my case, it was mistaking a shirt for a pair of pants. Witness the results, in this rare and previously-unpublished photo feature taken some time in the late 1990s (or maybe in 2000) by my dearly departed friend, Quinton. I miss you, buddy.

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  • Humility Publishing

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    Last year I received the good news that my PhD thesis, “Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Poetry” had been accepted by Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, meaning that I could start to go around calling myself a doctor (except in emergency situations on planes). To celebrate, I’ve posted…

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  • Paju Book City 1

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    Paju Book City is an incredible place.

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  • Bike Snob NYC on lobster deities and the modern world

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    In these crazy, wild, topsy-turvy times of wars, conflicts, battles, and excessive synonym usage, it can be important to have something that gives you a sense of security. This can be something as complex as a belief system, as simple as a talisman. This is why I worship a Lobster deity whose glowing Pincers of…

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  • Nu tech … from the 1980s

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    Hat-tip to jill/txt.

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  • Björkholmen Colours 1

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    Explosions of pastel!

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  • Ronneby: the e-literature capital of Sweden?

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    Spotted this awesome sign in Ronneby last night: Potential HQ for the ELMCIP project?

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  • What was I doing there?

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    As threatened in my previous post, I’ve written a reflection on the many existential crises I endured during my three years in the Netherlands. Okay, endured is putting it a bit too mildly. Oh, I mean, strongly. Um … whatever. Warning: semi-extended rant follows.

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  • What am I doing here?

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    I’ve moved to Sweden.

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  • Björkholmen 1

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    Kat’s first photo of Björkholmen, January 2011.

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