Ah, Hancock! Not to mention Sid James and John Le Mesurier — and of course, script by Galton and Simpson. Busy busy busy — so much to get done this week before I run away. Somehow it will all get done, right? Wait — wasn’t the end of the semester supposed to be the end…
Month: May 2010
It’s not until things are broken…
…that you realise what they mean to you. The wonky window just blew out and smashed off one ear and one foot of my wombat. I could blame the landlord for never getting around to fixing the wonky window. I can blame myself for putting the wombat there on the window sill next to Ganesha…
Pelzmantel: Cover with Lettering
Very happy! Doesn’t it just look wonderful? Even the lettering seems to capture the magical feeling of the story — I love the way it swirls.
I’m So Very Sorry (Maybe)
My latest column for BitchBuzz examines the gendering of apology, based on a couple of events you may or may not have heard about unless, like me, you monitor all media like a Bond villain (yes, Kipper helps): Here’s a study in contrasts: As our own Rebecca Thomson reported, there was a brouhaha about laddish…
My Students: Full of Awesome
Two grad students who are doing independent studies with me also made music videos to go with their projects. I don’t think I can link to Kira’s video on Facebook (a mash-up of Tipping the Velvet and the Brandi Carlile song “I Was Made for You”), but I can link to Caitlin’s video for Lady…
Branding Redux
One outcome of this weekend that was mostly frittered away in drinking and laughing with friends (fair enough, eh?) and eating bacon (mmmmm, bacon) was that I had a brain storm of an idea for the elusive branding concept. As I have mentioned before here, the concept of branding your work to establish a clear…