October 16, 2009 – 8:05 am
Who is your favourite superhero and why?
I’d love to say it’s some less-well-known-to-the-general-public superhero like Machine Man or Metamorpho, but to be honest it’s a tie between Superman and Spider-Man, partly because their costumes are so striking and colourful, partly because they’re both nice-guy superheroes who always try to use their powers to help people [...]
Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy
Text Publishing
9781921520617
August (Australia)
Prompts: LiteraryMinded
Responses: Krissy Kneen
Things that are fast/things that are slow
Motorcycles. Rollercoaster. Pick ups. Orgasms. All too fast. Slow would be nice. Slow is the ideal, something to aspire to. It all ends too quickly. Everything. And the people who have died. People of my gene pool [...]
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Posted in Interviews + Profiles, Other People's Words
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Also tagged Affection, art, attraction, colours, crushes, David Bowie, dinosaurs, erotica, felt pictures, honesty, intimacy, Krissy Kneen, loneliness, love, memoir, motorcycles, sex, Text, Text Publishing, writing
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<– Little Ange with my first love on the wall.
The first short story I ever wrote, and read aloud, was called ‘Michael Jackson and the Magic Hat’. I was in Year 3. Besides the magic hat, there was mystery, romance and intrigue. My best friends in Year 3 – Genna and Rebecca – both messaged me [...]
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Posted in Commentary, Self-indulgence
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Also tagged 1993, 1995, 1995 MTV Awards, 90s, Bad, Beat It, Dangerous, Dirty Diana, Don't Stop Til You Get Enough, fashion, Ghosts, Heal the World, Human Nature, Michael Jackson, moonwalk, Moonwalker, music, Neverland, Remember the Time, RIP, Sh'mon, Speed Demon, The Girl is Mine, The Way You Make Me Feel, thriller, You Are Not Alone
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It’s not often that I feel calm. I have supernovas going off in my head, squirmy things in my muscles and fingertips. I’m sore all the time because I exercise so much. It’s one of the only ways to expend the energy, wear me down, expend the effort effort effort. And I love the zing [...]
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Also tagged alcohol, Angela, Avid Reader, blogging, confessional, Crime and Justice Festival, dancing, energy, enthusiasm, exercise, inability to relax, insomnia, life, Mascara, Michael Jackson, Narrative magazine, nostalgia, Peril, personal, reader's feast, relaxation, sex, stress, Wordnik, work
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I wanted to marry Michael Jackson
<– Little Ange with my first love on the wall.
The first short story I ever wrote, and read aloud, was called ‘Michael Jackson and the Magic Hat’. I was in Year 3. Besides the magic hat, there was mystery, romance and intrigue. My best friends in Year 3 – Genna and Rebecca – both messaged me [...]