* Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Here is a column on the building that houses Hobart's Carnegie Gallery (yes, that Carnegie, who had so much money that he even lobbed some money around these parts). It's an odd kind of building, the website says that it was put together by some Hobartians, but that it is of "classical design". Now I know enough of architecture to pick the knock-off Ionic column here, but forgive me for being a little sceptical as to the use of red brick in ancient Greece.

I actually think that this is more evocative of a Maori totem pole than it is anything Pericles might have peed upon after a night out on the turps. Maybe it's just me, but I reckon the little flourish at the top hints at the angry eyes of a proud, recently departed chiefton What do you reckon? Am I seeing things?