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A deep dive literary analysis of Jessie’s Girl by Rick Springfield
Because why not.
Covers better than the original (according to me)
Some covers dare to tackle sacred cows in music and transcend their source material.
Putting my Neocities blog on ATProto
If this works I'll be very happy. UPDATE: It worked!
Simulacra and Citation
The Pope, Baudrillard, and finding myself inside the hypertext
Open Access and Colour Theory
What's in a name? And other questions you were too confused to ask
I am underwhelmed by AI search
I wanted AI to replace me. So why hasn't it?
The Quiet Revival
Thinking about the retracted church attendance report and why an imaginary wave made such a splash.
What is a librarian?
Exploring the surprisingly contentious question of what it means to be a librarian.
Important Thoughts about Hot Cross Buns
...And an indictment of the culture that mistakes scarcity for meaning!
Toy Story is Ontological Body Horror
Pixar created one of the darkest fictional universes ever, and I can prove it!
Year of the Blog
Reflecting on one year of reclaiming my own voice online.
Searching for God in the heat of Christmas
Grappling with the spiritual and cultural dissonance of Christmas in the great southern land.
Ikigai for people with no calling
Some personal reflections on work and purpose.
My 2026 New Year’s Resolution: Become Someone Who Reads for Fun
Not to be well read, not for self-improvement, but just to bring more pleasure into my life.
2 ways to miss "The Substance"
Respecting the balance between 2 equally wrong reviews.
Libraries are NOT "more than books"!
"More than books" is the most worthless cliché in the professional world, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
I Survived Beauty TikTok
The algorithm, for once in its cursed existence, worked for someone.
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
Recent updates to my blog
Boolean searching in neocities? she's crazy your honour
I Hate Toy Story 4
An angry breakdown of how Toy Story 4 turned Bo Peep into an impostor, assassinated Woody's character, and betrayed the entire franchise's core values.
Send Tony Abbott to Western Sydney
If any Liberal party strategists ask, this wasn't my idea.
Public Libraries Deserve a LibKey Nomad Too, Dammit
Why don't public libraries unlock their newspaper subscriptions at point of paywall? Let's fix this.
The Time I Used AI to Cheat
Spoiler: it wasn't great.
New post: Important Thoughts about Pickles
We are living in a pickle-neglect pipeline, and it's time to speak truth to power.
New post: Why Australian Gen Z Men Defied the Global Right-Wing Trend
What makes Labor's historic victory particularly fascinating is how it contradicts an emerging global narrative: the supposed rightward drift of young men, particularly those in Gen Z.
New post: Gen Z Men and Gender Relations Across Generations
According to a recent Australian study, new data shows Gen Z men are more likely to hold traditional gender beliefs than older men - and far more so than their female peers. The results show a clear trend: on average, beliefs in traditional gender roles have been declining across generations. But Gen Z men are emerging as an exception
New post: Hear Me Out: Let's stop publishing and just edit Wikipedia
Yes. *That* Wikipedia - the one your lecturers warned you never to cite.
New post: Rethinking PICO as a librarian
I've been reflecting lately on how we teach search strategies - particularly the ubiquitous PICO framework that has become the foundation of evidence-based medicine education.
New post: Yes, AI "Art" is Art.
Because what speaks to our cultural moment better than surreal, algorithmic slop?
New post: Small and Humble: A Boob Story
A personal story about finding life-changing wisdom in bizarre pop lyrics
New post: The nerdiest way to read the bible
A non-preachy reflection on how I blend spirituality and technology
New post: When Science Loses Its Words: Measuring the CDC Language Ban
Using PubMed to demonstrate the impact of language censorship
New post: The Class Politics of Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom
Despite its whimsical surface, Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom offers a sharp satire of British class hierarchies, using fairy tale tropes to expose contradictions in aristocratic power, labour structures, and social mobility.
New post: The Radical Power of Not Caring: Beauty Labour and Lazy Feminism
Every time you abstain from beauty-related labour, you empower yourself, even if it's because you're "too lazy" to keep up with it.
New post: Black Mirror's Meta Evolution (season 6)
Season 6 of Black Mirror isn't just meta – it's a Russian doll of reality, where characters watch themselves through layers of fiction. And maybe that's exactly where we are too.