Marking essays on Henry David Thoreau after watching Serenity a few times is pretty psychedelic. At intervals, speeches from the movie run through my head.

River: People don’t like being meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don’t walk. Don’t run. We’re in their homes and in their minds and we haven’t the right. We’re meddlesome.

One day I will teach my own class on civil disobedience and I’ll have these as sound bites to play during the lecture. I may even show up in costume.

Mal: One day they will swing back to the belief that they can make people… better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin’. I aim to misbehave.

Apart from bouts of righteous libertarian fist-waving, nothing much else is going on. I’m headed for Melbourne on the 10th, so if anyone who reads this is in town and wants to meet up, just drop me a line. Ross will be there visiting his cousins so I get some free accomodation, and we’ll go around and see different relatives and hang out in the city for a while. We may even rent a car car car to go drivin’ along woohoo.

Hey, what should I see when I’m in Melbourne? Know any good places to eat / rock out?