Cheap Therapy

Fans of the awesome graphic novel Watchmen might like to know that the promo images from the film are available.

Somewhat old news, but since 2000 the World Bridge Federation drug tests players and will strip them of their medals if they refuse the test.

Sadly suburbanrocketry.com don’t ship engines, but they do do kits. Presumably you can get engines (and kits) from your local hobby shop. Now if only the fire hazards will go away.

The start of the week seems a long time ago.

• Students return and wander the halls looking lost.
• WAMUG AGM, I manage to not get elected President. Yay!
• Household is down a computer. Resurrection attempts unsucessful. Backup exists but should have been a bit more current. Reprioritise maintenance of backup system. Puggle is deprived of YouTube.
• More of the public transport and walking thing.
• Gary Gygax died. His legacy was and is lots of fun for millions of people. Vale.
• Beer at the Belgian Beer Cafe, where you can get charged $24.50 for a stein of Hoegarden plus $5 deposit for the glass. Or you can get charged the same amount for a pint if you’re not paying attention… Fortunately they refunded.
• Mulberry crumble (or as Puggle called it ‘crimble crumble’) from our tree. Powered by Puggle pee.
• Bilby sang the tune to Click Go The Shears after Puggle sang it.
• No beer at home. Rectified.

I’m seeing a lot of jobs ads via Google for mining jobs, obviously the shortage of workers is so desperate they’ll accept internet users at places like getajobinthemines ($30 for the inside info in a PDF, or you could probably bribe any mine worker with a carton of beer and minejobsaustralia. Then again at the salaries they’re advertising it sounds like not a bad idea!I hear what a lot of people are doing is to get a job with Transperth as a bus driver (if you’ve seen their ads on every bus they’re obviously desperate, and if you’ll know the drivers are inexperienced) then after they’ve trained you up and you’ve got your heavy rigid licence try to get a job on the mines.

on the Muzak channel “Teenagers scare the living sh*t out of me” (from My Chemical Romance’s song “Teenagers”). Not sure if anyone else noticed it as a weird choice for inclusion in the Super IGA playlist.

The RAC are running a public transport survey, running until 4th April. Make sure you have your say!

Apparently Australia’s innovation system is under review, public consultation meeting in Perth tomorrow (Thursday 6th March) with separate sessions for academia, government and industry. Details here.

If you’re free on 18th March you might want to check out this lecture (at UWA’s Social Sciences Lecture Theatre).

Mark Bould is a Reader in Film and Literature at the University of the West of England. He is the founding co-editor of “Science Fiction Film and Television”, and an advisory editor for “Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory”, “The Journal of Horror Studies” and “Science Fiction Studies”. He is the author of “Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City” (2005) and “The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star” (2008) and co-editor of “Parietal Games: Critical Writing By and On M. John Harrison” (2005). He is currently writing “The Routledge Film Guidebook: Science Fiction”, co-writing “The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction”, and co-editing “Neo-noir, Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction”, “The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction” and “Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction”.