Fat Cactus

JA September 04

This week from the fattest, baddest cactus around:

• Death to Humans! Visions of the Apocalypse in Movies and Literature

• The triple j Joss Whedon podcast

• Variorum of Classic Tracts and Pamphlets by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert

• Bats in the Bookshelves: The Perils of Literary Social Networking

• Ben Eltham shares his thoughts on the two Australia Council arts industry reports

• The 1983 Penguin cover of Monkey Grip, with Noni Hazlehurst as Nora

• Guilloches – a look at the geometric patterns used on banknote design

• Mudmen, folklore and golems

• Why ‘[a]dapting a short story is a different animal from novel-to-movie adaptations’

• ‘And as soon as the winner is announced and it isn’t you … the cameraman just walks away, and you are left there at the table trying to look composed, and you want to die.’ – literary losers

• Mic Looby writes the guide on guidebook writing

• And, finally, for all the stationary die-hards: first impressions of the new Blackwing pencil

Our Friends

• Overland
• Alien Onion
• Ampersand Duck
• Andrew McDonald
• A Pair of Ragged Claws
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• City of Tongues
• Crikey
• darkly wise, rudely great
• David Astle
• Elmo Keep Does Stuff
• The Ember
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• Going Down Swinging
• Griffith Review
• Hackpacker
• Harvest
• HEAT
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• Killings blog
• Literary Minded
• Lorraine Crescent
• Lynden Barber
• Mandy Ord
• Marcus Westbury
• Matilda
• Meanland
• Melbourne University Publishing
• Mel Campbell
• The Monthly
• Musings of an Inappropriate Woman
• Oslo Davis
• Paul Callaghan
• Read, Think, Write
• Sleepers Publishing
• Sorrow at Sills Bend
• SPLOG
• Tom Cho
• Virgule
• Wet Ink
• Wheeler Centre