The monster has been tamed - for Swancon!

And Thus, I have edited 17,000 words down to a mere, 7,000 for my 45 minute presentation at Swancon.

Now, some more editing!

ONWARDS MIGHTY PEN!!!!

And then some helpful notes, as I am sure Christian, as kind as he is, does not want to read 7,000 words in order to help me make a Powerpoint!

DO be sure to turn up on Monday the 9th April to witness it.

For, if you do not wish to read my entire Honours dissertation, but would indeed like to have an inkling of the argument and understanding of Masculinity and Slash in LOTR....this is your chance!

Citizen Reporting -

I will be interested to see how this works out - Citizen reporting - Wired and Assignment Zero

Will citizen reporting lead to a more accurate understanding of the day to day events in our world?

Less bias? Hardly

Though the traditional algorithm for the presentation and design of day to day news may be changed.

Will we find a more positive portrayal of life in the US for example? And escape the danger of Fox's limited interpretation of affairs?

Visual DNA

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Birthday 07

It was my birthday on the 7th of March and I turned 23.

Story of 'O' excerpt

"Nothing however had been of such aid to her as the silence, unless it were the chains. The chains and the silence which ought to have sealed her isolated self within twenty impenetrable walls, to have asphyxiated her, strangled her, hadn't; to the contrary, they'd been her deliverance, liberating her from herself. What might have become of her had speech been accorded her and freedom granted her hands, had the faculty of free will been hers when her lover prostituted her while he looked on? She had spoken, it is true, under torture; but may one designate as words these which are only plaints and screams? Again, they often stilled her with gags. Beneath those stares, beneath those hands, beneath those sexes which raped her, beneath those lashes which tore her, she sank, lost in a delirious absence from herself which gave her unto love and loving, and may perhaps have brought her close to death and dying. She was - who? anyone at all, no-one, someone else...."