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The Magic Sitar: September 2012
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 30 September, 2012. The Swimming Pool Gallery. Alan Hollinghurst once wrote a book about a library in a swimming pool. I don't remember a lot about the book, not even the metaphor, except that I liked it. I went to a museum of art in a swimming pool. Today The musee was pretty much the only thing open in Roubaix. It had a lot of 19th and 20th century sculpture, drawing and painting—even fabric and fashion. I walked to Roubaix, which is a largi...
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The Magic Sitar: Playing the gender card
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 21 October, 2012. Playing the gender card. You already know this is going to be about Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, Alan Jones, gender, media and politics so I'm not going to blame you from clicking elsewhere. now. All right. Hello, the two of you who are left. So here's the situation as I understand it:. Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott proposed a motion to remove Slipper based on his 'sexist' text. Also because this would supposedly gi...
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The Magic Sitar: January 2011
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 30 January, 2011. I'm not a great fan of the early rise. Which is not to say that I hate mornings - rather, I'm not keen on afternoons but the timetable of the world I live in dictates that it's not convenient to sleep from 12 to 8pm every day and live through 8pm to noon. Due to an error involving a flight back from Brisbane the night before and a one-hour time difference, I missed my name on John Baldessari's Your Name in Lights. So I woke u...
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The Magic Sitar: February 2011
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 21 February, 2011. I live in Artarmon, which is probably one of the most boring suburbs of Sydney (maybe after Croydon, which is where my boyfriend lives). The best thing about Artarmon is that because it is so boring it is also considered safe. It is also fairly affluent (although we do have a housing commission). This means property is like, a hobby. It is true that the block is very close to amenities, but 1 minutes' walk will only get you ...
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The Magic Sitar: August 2011
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 10 August, 2011. You never lose it. A long time ago in another life I was a finalist for a fairly prestigious writing award, the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year. It was 1997 and I had already had a good year, having come second in a Baulkham Hills Shire poetry competition. Incidentally, I met the winner Mark Bolotin several years later at a private creative open mic night called Magical Theatre held in a garage in Glebe, in Sydn...
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The Magic Sitar: December 2011
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 09 December, 2011. A dose of reality and a touch of self-hate. Journalists are the lowest of the low. Aren't they? We are observers of the world when we are working, not participants. Expertise is deferred to the experts, the talking heads, the change-makers and journalists record, synthesise, regurgitate. I used to buy the Sydney Morning Herald. List and wait for a weekly wrap-up via my subscription to The Week. My strength is writing about c...
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The Magic Sitar: March 2011
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 24 March, 2011. I am pro-carbon tax. I don't mind being taxed, I just hate when the government misuse my (our) money for stupid things like Tony Abbott's salary. Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better! If you've read his book you will agree, this is a good summary. Are you sitting down? Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Icelan...
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The Magic Sitar: July 2012
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 29 July, 2012. High Tatras, Slovakia and Poland). Spent the day riding up and down funiculars, cable cars and ropeways. Have only recently come to appreciate the differences between them although functionally they all do the same thing: get you up (or down) a mountain. Photo of the day is Boff looking out at the Tatras from Zakopane, a border town in Poland on the other side of the mountain range of where we spent the night in Slovakia. Boff, ...
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The Magic Sitar: You don't know me...
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 06 October, 2012. You don't know me. I struggle a little when I go to the This is Not Art Festival. TiNA) in Newcastle. I've been to almost every one since 2000 when it was the National Young Writers' Festival (NYWF) and I was a young writer. I was a university student then. I commuted from Sydney twice because I didn't have accommodation and I remember teaching some cute guy how to make origami cranes. Shotput, and Wriron Chef cook-offs.
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The Magic Sitar: July 2011
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Contradiction, speculation and nothing but the blatant truth. 20 July, 2011. I'm starting a new series whereby I go through a whole bunch of my sentimental junk and chronicle my memories in photo and blog form so I can get rid of stuff without guilt. Basically what I want to say is: I value this item for its memories but no longer have use for it. Besides which, it's getting crowded in my small house. Received from: My brother Damian. Occasion: My birthday (16th or 17th? 17 July, 2011. Some of the funnie...
