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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Rocky and Gawenda, the book launch

Rocky and I would like to invite you to the launch of Rocky and Gawenda: the story of a man and his mutt this coming Saturday, October 3 at  10.15 for 10.30 at Veg Out, the St Kilda communal vegetable garden at Peanut Reserve, near Luna Park.
 Tim Costello, a former Mayor of St Kilda and [...]

Linz, Hitler and me

This may well be one of my last posts on Rocky and Gawenda. The writing has taken me in a new and unexpected direction, where memory and imagination meet. I am not sure where this will go, this mixture of memory and imagination, where `facts’ and fictions are intertwined. The `house of facts’ as a [...]

Rocky rejected, love betrayed

It is the second day of spring. Beside the St Kilda pier, on a morning  that feels as if winter has gone, consigned to wherever it is that memories are stored, the sky light blue, the air warm and crisp at the same time, wind-less, the sun soft yellow, spring soft, Rocky is puzzled, quizzical-looking, unsure of [...]