res colleges & rape culture

This article & this related one were in today's Sydney Morning Herald.

I wish I could say I was surprised. It's not as open/institutionalised as the Greek culture in the States, I think, but it's almost worse for being such an unspoken phenomenon.

(Nothing's ever happened to me; postgrads don't go to O Week events, or to most of the intercol booze-ups. But my college is the 'sister' college to Paul's, and many of the undergrad events are combined with them. Ugh.)

Chess in Concert (2008)

Musical picspam time! The last time I did this it was JC Superstar -- today we are going to stare at screencaps from the musical production currently devouring my mind: the recent production of Chess in Concert. (Next time it will totally be my cracktastic version of Joseph & the Technicolour Dreamcoat, fair warning.)

There are a few vids up on YouTube but I decided against embedding them because the sound quality makes me want to weep bitter tears.

Be warned: as with most musicals, my love for Chess is deep and nonironic and unabashed and involves capslock.



One day I will see a production like this in the Royal Albert Hall. ONE DAY.

( onwards! )