“Ship Giant Octopus”, or, The Burning Issues of the Internet

As any self-respecting blogger would know, one of the more fun bits of having a blog is (obsessively) checking your stats after you’ve published a new piece to see how many people have viewed your blog, what country they’re from, and their search engine terms- i.e. what people typed into Google that led them to … Read more

Go West Young Snail..

As Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has clearly proven, no great Australian road trip would be complete without car trouble.  While we weren’t in the outback, and I’m afraid I’m neither a drag queen nor predisposed to break into random song and dance, I now know what it feels like to be stuck in the middle … Read more