Christian Lander (@clander) at the Sydney Writers Festival. We saw this live and it was a hoot.
We also happened to be one of only a few non-white people in the audience.
Possibly the only Filipinos in the audience, too.

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Christian Lander (@clander) at the Sydney Writers Festival. We saw this live and it was a hoot.
We also happened to be one of only a few non-white people in the audience.
Possibly the only Filipinos in the audience, too.
The start of a new segment at the Pen: “people we think are rad, but they’re not on tumblr so we can’t ‘follow’ them… or ‘like’ their posts”.
In the mass political blogging mania that was my undergraduate years, we followed these guys and gals throughout the painful 2004 Federal Election (shivers). They provided awesome and insightful commentary then, and still do today.
Read it.