It’s my mother’s birthday this weekend, and while I’m not inclined to disclose her actual age, suffice to say that it’s one of the numbers where you generally get together and celebrate a little harder than usual. It also means that I’m back on the Gold Coast for 48 hours, although I made some smarter […]
It’s been a while since I busted out one of the dreaded paperbaghat pics, but I was tidying up the study a little and figured, yeah, what the hell. The flatmate is back at work today, which means I can indulge in some of my old living-on-my-own bad habits: Tradition dictates that I order pizza […]
On the Gold Coast visiting my parents (and heading off to see The Hobbit with my dad and my sister). It would have all the makings of an awesome day, were it not for the fact that: a) I really want to settle down and have a solid writing day after all the distractions of […]
Many Sri Lankan love cakes died to bring you this photo. Thanks for the donations, peeps. I have never been so happy to abandon my dignity for a good cause.
6:25 on a Saturday evening. Listening to Joy Division. Thinking about writing something and deciding to blog instead. And, ye gods, man, I’d forgotten how much I love Joy Division. Love Will Tear Us Apart rattles around my head all the time, appearing on all sorts of play-lists and compilation CDs I listen to with […]
I did not post yesterday ’cause I was off drinking beer. Forgive me, it was cold And delicious.
ONE Wednesday morning. The office – home, not dayjob – is humid and muggy. In the coming months it’ll be muggy as hell, which is probably the queue I need to go buy a fan in order to get through summer. Although, knowing me, I’ll just open a window and go, geez, the office is muggy […]
This is what my author bio used to look like, circa early 2007: Peter is a perpetual student and occasional writer. He lives in Brisbane with a fiancé, two cats and a never-ending thesis. I had reason to look up the story it was attached to over the weekend – a flash piece that was […]
I’m taking Bowie’s advice, putting on my red shoes, and dancing the blues. In fact, the red shoes are already in place, and I’m ready for my long weekend to begin in 9 hours or so. Catch you all Monday.
BAKE-OFF UPDATE So, an update on the QWC Bake-Off and my quest to win the hat of awesome. The Good News: We’ve hit our $1000 target, which means that should I win the Hat of Awesome, you’ll definitely be getting HIGHLY EMBARRASSING video of me dancing to a song selected by the most generous of the […]
8:02 in the morning and I’ve snuck into work early to get some writing done. This has become a particularly well-worn part of my routine of late – so much so that I’ve come into work early on days when I wasn’t planning on writing, simply ’cause my morning habit is largely this: wake up, […]
This past weekend I sat my arse on the coach and read comic books. When I was done with that, I watched some wrestling DVDs. And brother, let me tell, you it was a weekend of glorious brilliance the like I haven’t experienced lately. After two straight months where, more often than not, you’d find […]
