The stars, Rusty! Well, you can't see them now because we're in the city…

Now I wanna write a badass TV cop drama.

Hot damn, that was good television.

What a lazy bastard.

What about All Along the Watchtower? Is that Hendrix's most famous song?

I just inherited the typewriter my grandfather used to type his police reports from his days as a grizzled detective in the 70s. It's fuckin' badass.

Sure, but that's just life. Also why its important to put in the hard yards when you don't have extra responsibilities like young kids.

Yes, I believe so. Vonnegut worked as a PR man for General Electric. Hemingway et al were journalists.

My great idea for earning money while pursuing a fiction career was to get qualified in a field where there are actual jobs that have something to do with writing. As it stands, I do a lot of copywriting for work (all subject to the scrutiny of my rather brutal editor), and this gives me some consistent practice at…

Crikey, this guy could have given away $662 billion and *still* been a billionaire

I saw this on stage in Melbourne. Apart from the puppet, it was quite honestly the biggest load of crapola I have ever seen.

And no love for the Story of the Kelly Gang, which was in fact the first ever feature length movie. Good on ya Ned Kelly, you Irish rogue