Constant Gardener wasn’t feeling so wonderful from the previous night out — an old-fashioned bring a plate dinner — but was very keen to see the last opening of the season for Open Gardens. (The next one in this fantastic local treasure hunt is in August at Cruden Farm, ie Dame Elisabeth Murdoch’s hangout. She’s [...]
The writer Robert Dessaix (on whom I’ll post tomorrow) says that mindfulness is a kind of attentive tranquillity. Like a dog [has]. (But not a cat.) In that spirit these tiny scraps of driftwood on the shore of dailyness. The phone rings. Hello. Do you sell the calendula? (It’s an old woman. How can I [...]
February 21, 2012 – 9:13 am
I’ve been seeing this go past for ages and finally the subliminal penny drops. What do the Quitline folk have against Noel Pearson?
February 6, 2012 – 9:01 am
Paris, 5 February 2012, -6C, en blanc.
February 2, 2012 – 9:12 am
Observations and not very high ku from the streets of Paris 2. Waiting for Dogot 2.1) All over Paris, signs of dog lovers getting away with merde. 2.2) Scene 1: Stylish young woman, her black jacket projecting a half-metre prow: a baby, rugged and tucked. Scene 2: Stylish young man, stubble, swoosh of big hair, hipster [...]
January 23, 2012 – 11:26 am
Early one morning, a neighbour who has been summering down the coast was telling Constant Gardener — the dog leash community — the news about her labrador. She’d been walking on the beach and pooch had gone exploring. She found it further on, chewing on something near what had been obviously been a bbq site [...]
December 21, 2011 – 10:36 am
In 2012, let’s Occupy… – Julia’s mirror – Tony’s speedos – paper book shops – the front row – your partner/parent/kid’s email account (omg/lol/awes) – Kyle Sandilands Occupies Andrew Bolt – bilbies, bandicoots, potoroos – business class to Mumbai – a BBQ Best wishes, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, et cetera. Culture Mulcher will return oh [...]
December 19, 2011 – 11:16 am
I simply can’t follow music anymore, and just listen to what’s in the air, or on the shelves/hard drive — next to nothing post-2009, you understand. Nor can I do more than read the reviews of books and movies, and catch what I can. Springsteen reckoned there were 57 channels and nothing on, but then [...]
December 6, 2011 – 10:32 am
Cabbie, let’s call him Shiva: Have you just finished work? No, I’ve been having drinks with friends. What time do you start work? 4 pm. And finish? At 3 am. An 11 hour day — do you get a break? It must be hard to sit all the time. Oh yes, I take half an [...]
December 1, 2011 – 10:39 am
It’s a shaky time in the financial world, in the world world — remember 1987? Somehow that tune keeps replaying in variations on a theme. Still, on we go, working, eating, shopping. Because where would our lovely global capitalism be if we stopped shopping? But there are ways and there are ways to shop; it [...]
