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Cat. Theatre Royal car park, Campbell Street, Hobart. September 2013. Sunday Book Club? That's right, SUNDAY Book Club! Great Granny Webster , Caroline Blackwood: What an odd little book. Essentially a psychological analysis of how one person (in this case the obdurate matriarch of a clan) can inflict emotional damage across generations. The titular Great Granny is stuck in the "correctness" of her own Victorian youth. Her daughter is driven mad and talks to the fairies. Her granddaughter parties all night, smokes all day, and parties obsessively. She also constantly attempts suicide. Deceptively concise, this one is a sleeper. Recommended. B . Strangers on the 16:02 , Priya Basil: A short novel, this reads more like synopsis for a new novel than a complete work. Painted in broad strokes, it does a reasonable job in constructing three very different characters, reaching a climax between the three, then it ends. Frustrating. C- . I, Claudius , Robert Graves: R...

Kelp gull on wing. Derwent foreshore, Lindisfarne. August 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Jetson's fountain? Hobart's Railway Roundabout Fountain, Hobart. September 2013. As you know, the Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (and RSS feeds.) The following are some things that I've had a look at in the last week. I call this: a Compendium of Click-throughs for Monday Morning... 1 in 4 Men Surveyed in Asia and the Pacific Have Raped. Is the midlife crisis a real thing? An excellent example of the stories that lay behind the image. The more we fixate on chemical weapons as “bad” warfare, the more we make conventional weapons seem like “good” warfare. Syria's 99 Percent: The Problem With Focusing on Chemical Weapons. Five years after the largest global financial crisis since the Great Depression, the world’s financial system remains dangerous and dysfunctional. On Eating Roadkill, the Most Ethical Meat. Is the Nation-State Dying? Some surprising factors that influence well-being arou...

Early morning. Murray Street, Hobart. July 2013. I have set myself the task of writing five new poems in the next five days. If I'm impressed enough with my output, I might just publish them online. However, I am always on the lookout for themes and subjects. Keep an eye out for me please. Cruelly,Love , ee cummings cruelly,love walk the autumn long; the last flower in whose hair, they lips are cold with songs for which is first to wither,to pass? shallowness of sunlight falls,and cruelly, across the grass Comes the moon love,walk the autumn love,for the last flower in the hair withers; thy hair is acold with dreams, love thou art frail —walk the longness of autumn smile dustily to the people, for winter who crookedly care.

Free advertising. St Davids Park, Hobart. July 2013. No Sunday Top Five today. I'm on strike for Fathers Day.

I don't walk this way any more. The corner of Davey and Murray Streets, Hobart. July 2013. We're off chasing Great White Sharks today. Fingers crossed that we all make it back in one piece! I, Too , Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

I CANNAE GIVE HER ANY MORE CAPTAIN!

Boats at rest. Constitution Dock, Hobart. July 2013. The Vikings , Kenneth W. Harl: One of my first forays into the audiobook world, Harl takes us through everything that you could possibly want to know about Vikings. An interesting - albeit weighty - diversion. B . The Tiny Wife , Andrew Kaufman: An odd little book that tries just a little too hard to be odd. Redeemed somewhat by a nice twist. C .

Ezra as Bond villain.

Hobart in the Winter. 10 Murray as seen from the Waterfront. August 2013. Theme Thursday ? CHILLS? A hyperborean hope? Getting a gelid groove? It's Hobart in Winter. What do you think?

Ryoji Ikeda's Spectra light tower. Dark MOFO, Cenotaph, Hobart. June 2013. As you know, the Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (and RSS feeds.) The following are some things that I've had a look at in the last week. I call this: a Compendium of Click-throughs for Monday Morning... On why it is good to be wrong. The Cross-Cultural Manufacturing of Beauty. The beam is 15 kilometres high. Ryoji Ikeda's Spectra light tower. Dark MOFO, Cenotaph, Hobart. June 2013. When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash. A Billion-Pixel View of Mars From Curiosity Rover. The base of the beam. Ryoji Ikeda's Spectra light tower. Dark MOFO, Cenotaph, Hobart. June 2013. The 10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Same-Sex Marriage. The Ruins of Nan Madol. Directly below the beam, looking up. Ryoji Ikeda's Spectra light tower. Dark MOFO, Cenotaph, Hobart. June 2013. Why arts and science are better together. ...

10 Murray Street, Hobart. April 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Walking to work. Murray Street, looking out over Sullivans Cove. March 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Bushfire smoke. Elizabeth Street Pier, Hobart's waterfront. January 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Tranmere, as seen from Sandy Bay. January 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Hobart #1. Seen from the summit of Mount Wellington. December 2012. Wordless Wednesday. Hobart #2. Seen from the summit of Mount Wellington. December 2012. Hobart #3. Seen from the summit of Mount Wellington. December 2012.

Railyard rabbit. Seen on the Intercity Cycleway, Hobart. December 2012. Do you know that I have seen eight ( 8! ) separate rabbits across Hobart in the past two weeks? Why, they almost breeding like... RABBITS! Colville , Kendrick Smithyman That sort of place where you stop long enough to fill the tank, buy plums, perhaps, and an icecream thing on a stick while somebody local comes in, leans on the counter, takes a good look but does not like what he sees of you, intangible as menace, a monotone with a name, as place it is an aspect of human spirit (by which shaped), mean, wind-worn. Face outwards, over the saltings: with what merit the bay, wise as contrition, shallow as their hold on small repute, good for dragging nets which men are doing through channels, disproportionate in the blaze of hot afternoon’s down-going to a far fire-hard tide’s rise upon the vague where time is distance? It could be plainly simple pleasure, but these have another tone or qual...

Statistics have proven that if you laid every one of our Sunday family strolls in the last three years end-to-end , you would get to the moon and back ! Probably.

Buildings. Murray Street, Hobart. October 2012. The Basque History of the World , Mark Kurlansky. Entertaining history of a fascinating people. Bonus points for the recipes! B . Barbed Wire: A History , Olivier Razac. A political and cultural history of barbed wire. Razac focuses on focuses on the use of barbed wire in three crucial aspects of modern history: by American ranchers during the mid/late 1800s to both parcel up land for private use and end the roaming ways of Native Americans; as an effective killer in the defensive stalemates of World War One; and lastly that of the concentration camps of World War Two. Quite French, but don't hold that against it... B . The Invisible Man , H.G. Wells. An exciting little tale of an insane anti-hero that becomes increasingly pathetic. Staring with a slight comic start, it shifts into a darker, more subtle satire. Excellent stuff. B+ .

Me! Castray Esplanade, Hobart Waterfront. September 2012. Sunday Stealing is back! The Who Are You Meme ! 1. What is your biggest pet peeve? People's general selfishness/ lack of concern for others consistently frustrates me. 2. Where and when were you born? I was born in Burnie, Tasmania in the week that Hotel California by The Eagles was top of the Billboard charts in the US. 3. Where did your parents meet? You would have to ask them that question. I assume that it was in Melbourne, Victoria. 4. Do you have any siblings? What are/ were they like in four words? I have an older brother. He was an older brother. 5. Where do you live now, and with whom? I live in Hobart with Jen, Hen and Ez. 6. What is your occupation? I like to call myself a "Policy, Research, Communications and Academic Professional". 7. Write a full description of yourself. I'm just a sore and sorry little bot who needs to be loved. 8. To which social class do you belong? ...