Justine Larbalestier

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Posted by Justine at 0:48, October 29th, 2004 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, New York City/USA, Sydney/Australia | Comments Off

Justine Reads

Mely says I should announce this in my blog. So here it is: On Monday, the 1st of November, me and Barry N. Malzberg will be the double act for the NYRSF reading series at the Melville Gallery in the South Street Seaport Museum, 213 Water Street (between Beekman and Fulton), in the downtown Manhattan part of New York City. Doors open at 6:30PM and the reading begins at 7:00PM precisely. I'll be reading first cause I get too nervous if I have to wait. (Suggested donation $5.) The Melville Gallery (pretty, isn't it?) I'll read from Magic or Madness. For those of you who don't know ...
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Posted by Justine at 0:47, October 26th, 2004 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings | Comments Off

Keith Miller, 1919-2004

Keith Miller is dead. One of the the greatest cricketers of all time is dead. He could bat, bowl, field like the devil, play brilliant cricket while completely hungover, and charm the crowd whether he scored a century, got five wickets, or out for a duck. He was unbelievably physically gifted (he also played Aussie Rules brilliantly), gorgeous, funny, charming, and rebellious. He had Elvis hair that flopped across his forehead when he bowled, causing women (and, I imagine, not a few men) to sigh. He was tall (188cm) and built. The adjectives most frequently used about him are dashing, larrikin, and swashbuckling. Everything I've ever read about the man, makes me suspect that those writing about Miller were ...
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Posted by Justine at 0:45, October 11th, 2004 under Cricket, Musings, Sport | Comments Off

This is a Blog

This is a blog. What I said earlier, about this not being a blog, forget it. Almost as soon as I posted that much-lamented musing, my friend Ray wrote me to point out that I'd "made the same kind of mistake that Langford documents in his 'As Others See Us' sections [of Ansible]. ("It's not really science fiction. It's the world 30 years from now, in which for 18 years no human child has been born, for unknown reasons...')." Guilty as charged. The logic runs like this: science fiction/blogs are not good therefore this cannot be science fiction/a blog. What a load of rubbish. I'm embarrassed that I fell for that line of thinking while I tied ...
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Posted by Justine at 0:44, October 8th, 2004 under Bloggery, Musings | Comments Off

Two Weeks in Buenos Aires

In Buenos Aires almost everyone I met eventually talked about La Crisis, about waking up one morning and finding that they had two thirds less money than they had had the day before, about having to drop out of university, about losing their jobs, their apartment, their house. One woman was in Germany in 2001 at the time of La Crisis. She rushed to the bank to get out what money she could, but from the time she joined the queue to the time she got to the bank teller, the Argentinian peso had dropped even more. Her life savings were no longer enough ...
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Posted by Justine at 0:43, October 4th, 2004 under Musings, New York City/USA, Praising, Travelling | Comments Off

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