Thanks for visiting my Blog.
On this blog you will find posts about things that are important to me – writing, reading, media and politics.
3 things about me, I am:
- currently researching Victoria 1850 – 1900 for a novel I am working on,
- the Publicity Officer for Ballarat Writers (we are always looking for new members so get on board)
- a columnist for The Ballarat Independent (any story ideas add a comment below and I will get back to you)
July 5th, 2010 at 1:28 am
I can’t believe you require comments to be moderated… what ever happened to free speech?
July 5th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
I’m just learning about this blogging caper and have been wondering about the moderation function. Do you think I should turn it off? I decided to put it on because I half expected my Mum to use the blog as a method of direct conversation – “so did you get rid of that boil?” kind of thing. (Sorry Mum)
I’m keen to let opinions out there, so once I learn a bit more about it I think it might come off.
July 13th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
I think it’s confusing to invoke free speech in this context. It’s not infringing on anyone’s rights to say you want to choose who gets to say what on your bandwidth. Teresa Nielsen Hayden, whose blog comments boast of one of the most interesting online conversations I’ve encountered, says, ‘There can be no ongoing discourse without some degree of moderation.’ She has a great set of rules for moderation. Having said that, when you have a very small number of readers and even fewer commenters, the subject is pretty academic. (I don’t moderate comments on my blog.)
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:25 pm
I’m interested in the Percy Leason connection.
December 19th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Came across your blog while searching MTR. Ugh! Some advice, little sister; being sincere and honest will help your career immensely. As for your interests; let’s see: writing, reading, media, and politics. Hmmm. It took about five seconds to identify what was missing from the list – Feminism.
Let me try another term. How about Myopic Feminista? By all means do a blog for yes-people, your friends, and your mother; and come what may for a future you hope transcends a cross-section of people. Ahem, good luck with that.
Don’t re-read what is dated writing from a now-bitter Germaine Greer, read Christina Hoff Sommers or Esther Vilar’s work and opine on why you disagree with them. And I’m betting you’d disagree with them strongly. Challenge yourself and be different to the herd that all goes in the same direction.
If this blog is in fact a strong indication of your sexual orientation then disregard this message and knock yourself out with as much Andrea Dworkin and Ruby Rose as you can ingest.
But I sense you’re yet another smart young woman in our midst that is being lost to a leftist, feminist-dominated education system that erroneously sees our world through Greer/Steinem/Gillard mindsets.
December 20th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I’m not entirely sure that you understand the Greer piece correctly.
As an aside the piece actually has the highest hits of any of the pieces on my site, and directs the most search engine readers.