Mia Timpano, selected magazine articles

Interview for The Sunday Age October 2007 M cover story “Magazine city”:

“I’m clearly quite egotistic. I think if any writer says they’re not significantly driven by ego, they’re lying.” … Timpano [caters] to what she calls “marginal freaks”. (full article online here →)

Biography published in Frankie magazine Apr/May 2007:

“I began writing professionally at 17, but was stirring shit sometime before that. My first article ever, ‘An open letter to Mandy Moore’, written for my high school newspaper, was initially censored by the school’s administration due to its allegedly gratuitous use of the word vulva. It was finally banned from publication entirely on the grounds of its vulgarity. I argued that the administration’s complaints were ‘irrelevant and weird’, given that the article largely dealt with the lyrics of Moore’s then hit single, ‘Candy’. I speak Latin, have translated Propertius’ Elegies, have guest lectured at Swinburne University with the executive producer of Deal or No Deal, and when I’m not working, I’m doing my hair.”

Photographed for Vertigo magazine 2008:

Photographed for Russh magazine Mar/Apr 2007:

Extract of interview for Duke magazine Winter 2008:

Q: Do you think if you’re born a nerd, you’ll die a nerd?
A: Time is the fire in which we all burn.
Q: You don’t believe in reincarnation?
A: I believe in the Nexus.
Q: Why did you start NGW?
A: Somebody had to. Crime is a disease. Meet the cure.
Q: As a crime fighter, what would be your weapon/s of choice?
A: A microwave emitter like the one Wayne Enterprises just misplaced.
Q: What are the highpoints of making NGW?
A: Building castles, training war elephants and buying technologies for my priests.
Q: What would be one skill and/or attribute you would look favourably upon when considering a potential employee?
A: Head tentacles.
Q: How do you feel about nerd chic? For example the preppy look, thick rim glasses et al.
A: Faux nerd is to actual nerd what Spam is to a freshly slaughtered pig — weak.
Q: What do you think of guys who collect toys and don’t remove them from their packets?
A: What are you implying? That these guys are foolish? We’ll see who’s laughing when you lose the miniature phaser that’s meant to be connected to Worf’s hand but fell behind the bookshelf that you can’t move and no one will help you because you only have two friends who always appear offline.

Interview for The Melbourne Times June 2007: