I arrived home from Adelaide to find Lord Mayor of Melbourne had been quoted as saying Adelaide should be ’shut down’.
The feeling of oddness was still with me from traipsing up and down Hindley Street all weekend – sex shops and tittie bars (and cyber sex cafes – the point?); R&B-type slick and shiny clubs [...]

The Independent Type + other bobs
‘Ello Guvna!
* Yesterday I checked out The Independent Type exhibition at the State Library of Victoria. If you’re a word-nerd you will probably enjoy it as much as I did. Highlights were Marcus Clarke’s notebook (c. 1853) where I could make out the line ‘A great deal of middling intellect’; Henry Handel Richardson’s gorgeous typrewriter; [...]