Reclaim Australia For McDonalds
There is a bus stop ad here in Sydney – and probably the other capitals as well – which shows a very hale, genial George Clooney in a crisp white shirt unbuttoned at the top, hair in crisp greying...
View ArticleZeitgeist
Thoughts are racing at me as when death last approached. They don’t seem particularly to be mine. At these times there is always a feeling, a whiff of the psychic. In this area I am agnostic. I have...
View ArticleA Most Remarkable Adventure in Dehydration
The temperature was in the 40s on 14 January when I took off over the bridge on my GIANT road bike and at Milson’s Point turned off down to Careening Cove, then To Kirribilli House, where our Prime...
View ArticleIntimate music
Perhaps the best room for intimate music in Sydney is attached to the church about half way up St John’s Road in Glebe from Wentworth Park Road below and Glebe Point Road above. Whether those who...
View ArticleBatman
One day many years ago I took my son to see a Batman movie. I forget what it was called. Perhaps Batman and Robin. I remember that a girl joined the team in one of their crime-stopping adventures. If...
View ArticleThe Mystery Of Then
No doubt you are a person who thinks I live in memory. You are right, or would be if you had added the qualification that I also live very intensely in the present. Memory would not have its potency if...
View ArticleThe earth moves
There was a period when I fell into the habit of sleeping in, even until noon! Disgusting. Well into one morning a dream or nightmare of frightening presence rose in my sleep. The outlines of...
View ArticleThe Phoney Duke
When you feel you have very little time the deepest enthusiasms of your life – those which embody whatever meaning your life has had – sometimes intensify in an extraordinary blending of immediate...
View ArticleMoment; Round Midnight
Around midnight I stop writing for a bit and gaze off through the plane trees at the lights on the hillside that is the leading edge of the city here. It is darkest under the arches of the viaduct,...
View ArticleMentone
Some time ago when I was still a professional I was asked to write some book reviews for Rosemary Milsom then features editor on the Sun-Herald here in Sydney. Science and history books were my...
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