Monthly Archives: September 2011

policy principles be damned

Posted on September 25, 2011 by rustichello

You know I just can’t bear the current conniptions of the Labor Party with regard to asylum seekers. Seems to me that Julia and her Cabinet tried very hard to have their cake and eat it too. Mandatory detention is … Continue reading →

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blackface (the next generation)

Posted on September 23, 2011 by rustichello

I’ve been thinking about Radike  Samo and the fans done up in blackface at the Tri-Nations. It’s been argued that the fans’ boot polish and Samuel L. Jackson wigs were making a kind of tribute, the sincerest form of flattery. … Continue reading →

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this bulkhead’s built of fallen brethren’s bones

Posted on September 22, 2011 by rustichello

A long time ago (yeah, before you was born dude) I finished high school and my parents moved away to the north coast of New South Wales leaving me with my grandfather’s green chair , a television and a frypan … Continue reading →

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élan

Posted on September 21, 2011 by rustichello

A correspondent has suggested that in my post about Carlos the Jackal, Vanguardism is Vanity, I do not give sufficent weight to élan, both revolutionary and counter revolutionary.She suggests that the tools I disrespect, commitment and absolutism, are the key … Continue reading →

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a pair of tits called authenticity

Posted on September 20, 2011 by rustichello

I’m not good at funny. I have a repertoire of jokes that scrape the sides of barrel abandoned during the gold rush. My jokes can be funny, but mostly I an engaged in a performance of being funny, or at least … Continue reading →

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vanguardism is vanity

Posted on September 19, 2011 by rustichello

I’ve made remarks in the past about how I’m a complete sucker for a righteous cause and a band of brothers. Thankfully this romanticism has its limits. After all, I am not currently practising the armed struggle and am unlikely … Continue reading →

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inside passage to pokhara

Posted on September 17, 2011 by rustichello

In Jonathan Raban’s beautiful book Passage to Juneau he connects the story to of his boat journey to Juneau, Alaska, to his sense of wonder at being where he is and doing what he’s doing and how extraordinary it is … Continue reading →

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KPIs don’t measure dreams

Posted on September 16, 2011 by rustichello

The Falklands plan fell through. Too much dosh, too much uncertainty: couldn’t do it. I have decided to go to Nepal in November, less dosh and less uncertainty. This has, and is, causing the Rustichellos some angst. I’m going high … Continue reading →

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the red and the white

Posted on September 16, 2011 by rustichello

A great little story is told about white waratahs, that forty or so years ago some Water Board employees, truck drivers so the legend has it, skidded off the road in the NSW southern highlands looking for a spot to take a … Continue reading →

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you are sleeping, you do not want to believe

Posted on September 15, 2011 by rustichello

Reading late last night I happened upon Anthony D. Smith and his “Ethnic Election and National Destiny” paper which is a pretty thoughtful consideration of how peoples tell big stories over centuries and those stories become markers of identity. Not … Continue reading →

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