Writing
A Mad Mongolian Road Trip
(Article originally appeared in the Australian Conservation Foundation's Habitat magazine, May 2011) In 2010 Tama Pugsley and I attempted to cycle 1400kms from a small Mongolian town called Moron to a smaller town, also called Moron. This had...
Appetite for Destruction: four plays about the end of the world
(Originally published in The Lifted Brow, issue 10, May 2011) The small crowd gathered in the dark outside Newcastle's old Police Station is finally ushered in. Aden Rolfe, director of the Critical Animals festival, which is staging the show, is...
Hysterical Necrophobia!
An article about extreme life extension, beauty contests, Portuguese explorers, porn, what else? ... oh yeah: death. "Hysterical Necrophobia!" originally appeared in "The Death Book: How do we die?" published by Vignette Press
Crowds and Lack of Power
Catalogue essay for "I Thought a Musical Was Being Made", a 2010 Next Wave Festival show. Charles Baudelaire was the original dandy. He loved loitering in the alleys and boulevards of gay Paree in an opium swoon, perving at crowds from a safe distance ...
Aotearoa / Noo Zilland
This story originally appeared in The Lifted Brow issue 6. So the story goes that Maui fished up the North Island from the edge of his giant Waka, nowadays known as the South Island. And that’s why Aotearoa has two islands. This guy Maui pulled all sorts of crazy missions...