The above image feels somewhat surreal to me. A train station in Melbourne’s inner suburbs, the sunken tracks between its platforms now transformed into a muddy canal. Yesterday and overnight, torrential rain in the wake of tropical cyclones Yasi and Anthony caused flashing flooding in parts of Melbourne and throughout regional Victoria. And there’s more [...]
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Not for the faint of heart, apparently
On Monday night I gave a reading from Madigan Mine at The Wheeler Centre, as part of their “Debut Mondays” series. It’s the first time I’d read that particular section in public, and it’s one of the nastier scenes in the book. There is a knife involved, and quite a bit of blood, and someone [...]
Things that go bump in the night
Next Sunday is Halloween! It’s also my birthday! Double Huzzah! Fittingly, I’ll be at Dymocks Southland for their Halloween HorrorCon on the 31st, eating too much sugar and signing books along with four other might fine local authors of dark fiction — Alan Baxter, Bruce Kaplan, Bob Franklin and the dashingly handsome Jason Nahrung. Come [...]
Of Blackbirds and Currawongs
The thing is, I should love Currawongs. I should be on their side. They’re big black birds, ever so distantly related to ravens — an ever so distant relation which definitely shows in their general mien — with bright yellow eyes and a penchant for falling with clumsy grace through the branches of trees. They [...]
Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer living in Melbourne. Mostly.
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Online Integrity: Edits and Updates
Yesterday, someone on my Twitter feed linked to a post on the Media Diary section of The Australian website, written by senior writer and columnist, Caroline Overington (who is also the editor of Media Diary). I’m not providing a link to that just yet, for reasons that will become apparent, but here’s a screenshot: That [...]
4 February 2011
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary, Miscellania . Tags: Caroline Overington, news, online ethics, The Australian . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: 2 Comments