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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Inspired by the discovery of Normal Moments in Art History With No Murder and with paintings provided by Ariel , I have created a little tribute to some of the Murderous Ladies of Western Art History. Best moment: Representing my School at Debating Future Plans: Winning more Debates what is for dinner? did you buy the shampoo I like? how could you leave the house in that? Your mum’s kinda quiet … Now just get that back to the bench and I’ll get everything else. Start prepping it for the stock, but pluck all the hair. Gary hates hair in stock and I want to win this challenge. I tried one bell, then three bells, but she just kept bringing them back. She loves playing with them, I guess. It’s in her nature. And she does keep them out of the house as well, so that's good. He told me I was spending too much time on Pinterest. He told me he wanted me to spend more time with him. I split the diff. he was crying and begging mine too! anyway, he was crying and I felt the tears ...

Fighting Winter with Summer

Are you feeling a little confused about Australian Politics right now? Do you keep on trying to reconcile what the Government says with what the Government does?

 Perhaps the part of you that prides itself in common sense and “telling it like it is” seems to be reacting quite strongly to what the Government does, but the part of you that tries to apply some of the ideas you had to learn throughout your life is reacting very strongly to what the Government says? Perhaps your reptile brain keeps tapping your education on the shoulder and muttering "something is going on mate, they are not doing what they say they are doing!" The 1% are not stupid, they just want you to think they are Those who currently run our Government do believe in the climate science and they know the water and energy conflicts are rolling across the world and are heading for Australia. They didn’t get to their position without intelligence, a survival instinct and an eye for future conditions that ...

Zeitgeist (2007)

One thing I like very much about being a historian who has treated her own writing as a historical record, is that I can assess just how well I process the world as I pass through it. I used to think that the careful archiving of my diaries, journals, blogs and emails was an affectation, a wish to leave a historical record of my thoughts to future historians. It turns out that the use of that archive was going to be more personal, and the application of its lessons more contemporary, than I ever anticipated. My history degree was supposed to stay history, but it didn’t. Today I completed another step in this journey of history into reality by finally getting around to watching Zeitgeist . The thing I find most interesting about Zeitgeist was the familiarity of the material; my historical and political studies sit exactly parallel to the thrust of the arguments in Zeitgeist , so I was comfortable with the broad ideas and the conclusions from them. All of the conclusions can b...