What to say? Watching the Delta virus begin to rip through Sydney. Maybe if the Premier had not spent most of last year sneering at the Victorian Premier? Maybe she might have learnt some lessons? But she couldn't resist, and was egged on by the Murdoch press, the id of the world. Ids get you... Continue Reading →
Birds, Balls and Ran – Day 3/67
Got up early to do my first upper-body exercise post-quarantine. Various deltoid, pecs, lats things with weights and the stretchy thing. Am going to have to feed the rabbit first though, because if a human comes into the garden at that time of the morning, it must be to feed him, right? Watched Insiders with... Continue Reading →
I definitely didn’t buy any books, DVDs or string. Why do you ask? Day 2/67
My backpack of bricks and weights was waiting faithfully for me. I now know it's 24.6kg, but I didn't yesterday when I did this - in roughly 55mins. Wrote my first letter to the Advertiser (watch this space). Doomwatched the NSW press conference. They're going to go into a lockdown that will make Victoria last... Continue Reading →
I definitely didn’t buy any books. Why do you ask? Day 1 of 67 out in about in Oz…
Got out of quarantine today. Picked up by my mum. Fed the rabbit a grape. Took the bike for an overdue service. Definitely did not buy the following books at various charity shops Checkov - Five Plays (Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters)Guiseppe di Lampedusa The LeopardMichael Frayn The Tin MenDavid... Continue Reading →
Intro to Anthro #09 – it’s a wrap: Gillian Tett, nukes and other cool stuff.
And we're done. I read, and blogged, a 400 page text book while in quarantine. The plan is to keep that habit (if not tempo) up over the coming 67+ days that I am out in the unReal World that is the world's biggest country town (Adelaide). Section 5 - "Anthropology in the World" was... Continue Reading →
Quarantine Day 14 – I made it, sanity mostly intact
Tomorrow I leave this room that has been "home" for 14 and a half days. I will be escorted to the ground floor, collect a piece of paper, show it to the cops, and then out into the world (all the while with a mask on). I will be collected by my mother and then... Continue Reading →
Intro to Anthro #08 – Practice makes adequate. Oh, and study the rich.
Penultimate chunk of reading the "Introductory Readings in Anthropology" book. It has definitely helped with the quarantine, and if - gaia forbid - I spend another two weeks coupled up somewhen and somewhere, then a big fat textbook about something I want to know about (systems ecology? social movements? critical race theory? surveillance and digital... Continue Reading →
Quarantine Day 13 – counting the hours now
The days really are bleeding into each other now. I saw humans in the flesh for only about the fourth time in two weeks, when two came to stick a cotton bud down my gob. I read, I exercised, I wrote a blog about what I'd read. I worked (not as much as I had... Continue Reading →
Intro to Anthro #7 – clothes, pig bladders and resistance to genocide/ecocide. All human life is here…
Am seriously loving this book. It makes me wonder about all the gems I have back in Manchester and whether I have time to read them before The Shit Hits The Fan for me too (must never forget it has been and is hitting for many others, who tend not to be human, or white... Continue Reading →
Quarantine Day 12 – the taste of freedom, brilliant films, brilliant interviews (gratitude up the wazoo)
I've said it before, and will again. I am one of the luckiest people I know. Not in the Domino in Deadpool 2 kind of way, more structurally. Grew up in Australia when social democracy was still a thing. Got to see the world (south east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, USA) with parents in 1977/8.... Continue Reading →
