Etchi

Are you ready for the challenge? Only nine days to go before the The Giant’s Shoulders #5! Be prepared to fire in those entries, like the robot-touting girl from Etchi, on the following instructions, ASAP! You can read more about the carnival – named “The Giants’ Shoulders” – on the About page. In brief, once [...]

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On the chosen theme for Scientiae Carnival for October. Last Friday I watched my former students (from my form class, a kind of quasi-pastoral care program involving being with a group of students since Year 8 ) graduate from their final year of high-school. Out of the fourteen, there were saw thirteen graduands from that [...]

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Feminist SF Carnival – In Orbit Soon!

by podblack on January 26, 2008

After a lovely, timely reminder by Orac about the Skeptic’s Circle carnival which is soon out (poor frosty Orac… he has snow whilst I have a suntan… gorgeous weather here in Australia! :p ) I have already done a quick mass email around and there are some great entries in; I will remind people to [...]

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Fallen, Again

by podblack on November 4, 2007

Sometimes you find art that is just so unspeakably wonderful that you are reminded of your childhood love for comics and fairies, ‘Aliens’ and ‘Labyrinth’, Japanese culture and fashion – and it stops you in your tracks. Scientific fiction films, graphic novels, off-beat music and novels inspire this sort of agog delight in me still. [...]

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