Rob in front of the ‘red zone’ …. Sometime in the 1980’s. The phone was hung up with a slam rather than a gentle hanging up. It was a 70’s era wall-phone and the give in the plastic immediately bounced the handset back out of the cradle. “Keating is a f***ing prat. He’s more…
Guzman y Gomez is a Mexican restaurant that is incredibly casual and relaxed, while the food is utterly amazing. The first shop opened up in Fortitude Valley a few years ago, and at the time it was placed nicely along the path I used to take from my old apartment in New Farm, to the…
bing………….. bing……….. bing………. A hotel for kings and queens, surely! The sweet little display just inside Rob’s front door. Feeeeeeeel the blick love. A bit of Remington 2 love, while you’re at it. A tired eyed yours truly, and the Standard folding with my name on it. (Robs blog) Oh dear… look…
Just a quick reminder that the Brisbane Type-in is still going ahead. I’ve yet to settle on a venue, as the original site that I had booked informed me that a large party was going to take place in the room next door, and were likely to be ‘very noisy’, so I’ve canned that and…
Hot off the press news from Platen HQ. New to the Junkyard…. Type-in, and type-in workshop news. A QWERTY Blick 8. Speaking of 8….. One more thing… Mmmmm diamonds. Made in 1922.
It was a glorious Sunday morning, but I was feeling in far from magnificent form. I crawled out of bed with aching muscles, and a rather sore head. I was very tired after the week’s adjustment to my new (old) job. I caught up with some of the activity from the Typosphere online, while listening…
REMINDER: Brisbane type-in – 2pm this Sunday at the Museum room at the Breakfast Creek Hotel. Reasing = reading. Urg!
Thank you Robert for your lovely Poster! As you can see, I’ve managed to swing the Museum room at historical The Breakfast Creek hotel. The Breakfast Creek Hotel is mentioned in the Midnight Oil song ‘Dreamworld’, and has been a historical centrepoint of Brisbane for well over a century. Feel free to drop buy guys.…
The ‘Remember your typewriter’ type-in It’s coming….. (Update, 10th of March)Rob Messenger, of Oz Typewriter fame is on his way to Brisbane in March, and it’s time us Queensland writers and fanatics got our machines out in the open, and invaded the public space. So, you poets, fiction writers and PHD kids…. warm up your…
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