http://www.theliftedbrow.com Tue, 18 May 2010 23:25:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier this year, Michaela McGuire and Benjamin Law attended the Wooroolin Peanut Pullers and Backfatters Ball. Ben has written about the experience in the current edition of The Monthly. Michaela tells her side in the August Brow, which is available now for preorder. They joined me on Skype for a ... http://www.theliftedbrow.com/?p=492 What broke my sleep-spell was my daughter’s night-cry. I brought her to bed so she could sleep next to me and her mother. At 4am the birds were raucous. My daughter was not quite two. She whispered into my ear, “Rock-a-my baby,” and then: “Our founders are skeletons. Englishmen drilled ... http://www.theliftedbrow.com/?p=489 347-536-0254 was the number—you could see it carved in with a sharp red pen in the wooden bathroom stall of this place named Sandy’s. They said that the boy was there the night before. The place was too lawless for any chief of police to care to check out the ... http://www.theliftedbrow.com/?p=487 The coffee was a little burnt-tasting. Not much crème. Even Bec could tell that this was only average, perhaps bad, coffee, and she hadn’t even been living in Slovenia. He curled his lip at the smell of it and this was a new thing. She had never seen him curl ... http://www.theliftedbrow.com/?p=485 I decided to go because it sounded like the end of bad weather, as in, yes, “Bah! Rain!” which makes me, I guess, a punning literalist. But then a trip to the worldwide waste-of-time confirmed my hunch. I could appreciate a country that measures its annual rainfall in millimetres (72) ... http://www.theliftedbrow.com/?p=483