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The end of The End of the World. Finally!
One good thing about Covid19, it kept me out of my usual dives for most of last year. Instead, I had a year of writing. Lots and lots of writing. And t…
John Birmingham
Mar 3
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I was wrong about the end of the world.
Turns out I don’t know my apocalypse from my armageddon. I totally thought it would all be about flesh-eating demons spilling out of the UnderRealms, o…
John Birmingham
Feb 23
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New mate
The arrival a new dog should always be a happy event, but this fine fellow comes to us in bittersweet circumstances. He’s a rescue dog, technica…
John Birmingham
Feb 18
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From the Department of Predictable Consequences...
… comes the Facebook decision to turn off access to its platform for local news orgs. (And hundreds of innocent bystanders like the weather bure…
John Birmingham
Feb 18
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IKEA for killer robots
I built myself some shelving for the gym today. It’s a three deck garage workshop piece from Bunnings. The manufacturer is a local mob called Pi…
John Birmingham
Feb 16
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Whisky tango foxtrotted.
Had a week in Yamba with Jane. It was great. I’m not allowed to tell you how great it was because nobody who knows anything about Yamba wants an…
John Birmingham
Feb 15
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The Stand, 2020.
The Stand was the first book I bought with my own money, and the book I have read more often than any other. I’m well over a dozen times through…
John Birmingham
Feb 10
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Road food
A long time ago The Age paid me to fly to Sydney and have dinner at Tetsuya’s. The dinner cost about a grand, the booze about half that again, a…
John Birmingham
Feb 9
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Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
There are some friends you will forgive almost anything. You lend them favourite books you will never see again. You bail them out at three in the morn…
John Birmingham
Feb 4
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Dopamine Jones.
So I’m sitting in this cafe. Right now, writing this entry on my phone. Because I’m trying to stay off Twitter and FaceZuck. It’s like jonesing …
John Birmingham
Feb 4
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Ukrainian Felafel
Last year I had a request from a Ukrainian company who wanted to translate Felafel and release it upon that long suffering country. It is now ou…
John Birmingham
Feb 3
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Manuscript away!
I hit send on the manuscript for The Shattered Skies, the second book in the Cruel Stars series last night. That was a relief. I'd hoped to fini…
John Birmingham
Feb 3
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