RoadToSurfDom.com
Title
The Road to Surfdom
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About a blog
My name is Tim Dunlop and I live in Adelaide with my wife and son. I was born in Sydney but grew up in Canberra, from ages eight to twenty. I moved back to Sydney for a few years and then onto Melbourne for about ten years. Another stint in Canberra was followed by periods in London and the United States. Although I have worked as an academic, it wasn’t for very long, though I did teach–mainly tutoring–during the six or so years I spent getting an MA and a PhD. The doctoral thesis was about public debate, intellectuals and the role of citizens and is partly responsible for my interest in blogging. Mostly, though, I’ve worked in retail, including a number of years as the owner or part-owner of a couple of shops in different parts of Melbourne. Best job I ever had was in record shop in Canberra. I’ve had articles, fiction, reviews and radio drama published here and overseas. I like water skiing and meeting people.
I started The Road to Surfdom in May 2002, just after I moved to Washington D.C., back when blogs were young. It was meant to be a bit of diary of my time in America but a few things changed that. The first was the appearance on the scene of the Washington snipers, the geniuses who cruised the streets of D.C., Virginia, and Maryland for three weeks in October 2002 randomly shooting people in what turned out to be an attempt at large-scale extortion. My posts covering our reaction to living in amongst that received a lot of links and so knowledge of the blog grew in what was then a tiny blogosphere.
The next big thing that happened, and the event that launched a billion blogs, was, of course, the decision by the Bush administration to invade Iraq. From the moment that such an invasion became a possibility, to the invasion itself, this issue has been a staple of the political blogosphere and Surfdom has participated in all of that. So once we got into the hot and sweaty of that particular issue, Surfdom officially ceased to be an attempt at an online diary and became a full-fledged political blog.
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- Washington DC
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