• Loneliness v. Social Life

    Loneliness v. Social Life

    Certain mornings one just wakes up badly; even if one had a healthy dinner and read a book of Stoic...
  • A Fine Bureau

    A Fine Bureau

    Sure you facilitated intra-species cooperation and ensured human dominance of the earth… But what have you done for me lately? Share...
  • The Ornithologists

    The Ornithologists

    I should have more to do on a Thursday afternoon than sit outside a cafe and watch girls go by....
  • Mr Vain

    Mr Vain

    Perth isn’t much to look at when divided into suburbs: a piecemeal composition, the sum of which is a city...
  • Well done, Daniel

    Well done, Daniel

    By age seventeen the mothers are howling from the sideline for their sons to do damage to other sons. But,...
  • The Last Five Breaths

    The Last Five Breaths

    It doesn’t take much depth of thought to see that one’s life is interesting. However, that adjective should not be...
  • Flogging the Dolphin

    Flogging the Dolphin

    By the age of twelve I was masturbating frequently and surreptitiously. Every Saturday after baseball I would search the West...
  • It’s Probably Me

    It’s Probably Me

    I was five when I realised we were all going to die. Lying in my nan’s spare bedroom, turning under sheets...
  • A Life Less Painful

    A Life Less Painful

    Civilisation results from an increase in technology that allows one privileged class to dominate all others and perpetuate a whole...