“Allopathetic medicine”
Oh dear. Hopefully I think before I speak more often than I apparently think before I type.

This one was me, writing an informative (ha!) article:
. . .hygiene laws are pretty sick

I just read the phrase “to steal a peek into” as “steak potato”. Perhaps it’s time to step away from the computer.

Dear Open Office:
While I appreciate the kind and thoughtful input of your spellchecker, I should point out that ganache and gazpacho are quite different from each other, and that I would suggest not using the latter to ice a cupcake.

I was all very excited when I was going through the Melbourne Writers Festival program and madly marking (and booking) events to attend. China Mieville! Hitomi Kanehara! Justine Larbalestier! Scott Westerfeld! Margo Lanagan! And. . .Stephen King? Surely I would have heard a bit of buzz if Stephen King was going to be at the [...]

Ants, it seems, rather like to tramp through my flat in dizzying numbers all throughout summer. My peaceful attempts at using tea tree oil and cucumbers and other ant deterrents work for a few days at a time, but then my flat (no rooms are off limits, apparently) becomes a seething mass of tramping little [...]

So, now that the first chapter of Downtown is completely rewritten (and I mean completely–instead of my main character sitting on a statue outside a party, she is now getting up to mischief at a magic show), I feel it’s time to ponder more important things.
What say you about smiley faces with noses? Take, for [...]