Pavlov's Cat

This blog continues in its new incarnation here at Still Life With Cat.

Time for a little facelift and detox, methinks. The semiotics of pink have changed a lot since October 2005, and not in a good way. The feli...

I'm in the middle of writing a review of Amanda Lohrey's new book Vertigo but I'm finding it heavy going. Not the book, which I...

Apparently last year John McCain used the 'lipstick, pig, still pig' trope in reference to Hillary Clinton's proposed health ca...

... to any fathers reading this; I'm just off to the family get-together myself. But to those who no longer have fathers, I hope you are...

Could someone please explain to me exactly what a 'hockey mom' actually is? Has it got anything to do with that Holly Hunter Texas c...

Today is an absolutely beautiful, perfect, blue-and-gold Adelaide day, much to the pleasure and relief, I'm sure, of everyone involved i...

*All genuine quotations, verbatim I should like to nominate newbie novelist Kerry Reichs, daughter of the more famous Kathy, for the annual ...

When I was a kid my sisters and I spent years being chucked out of Religious Instruction in primary school because my father had firm views ...

Having scaled back their convention plans in deference to what looked like becoming the second Louisiana mass tragedy in three years, the Re...

According to this report on the ABC's website, Sarah Palin was a last-minute second choice after McCain's first pick as running mat...

Predictably, depressingly, talk in certain sections of the blogosphere has already turned to the looks of mooseburger-eatin' VPILF Sara...

The closest thing I have to a goddaughter is M, the soccer-playing soprano and third-year Aerospace Engineering student who has made occasio...

If the name of the chap who was chatting on Friday afternoon to ABC Adelaide's Carole Whitelock about security is anywhere on the ABC we...

It would be comfortable to think that the reason I've not had much of substance to say here over the last week or three is that life has...