Monthly Archives: February 2012

chickens clucking (book, book, book)

Posted on February 29, 2012 by rustichello

So, another burst of positivity, this time about books I’ve read recently. Firstly, a book I borrowed from the library (shock! horror!): Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone. It is a fine memoir that does everything a memoir should do, … Continue reading →

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one day, they say, the sky gave way

Posted on February 27, 2012 by rustichello

Here’s a thing: This image is from an exhibition called The Eighth Day, a collaborative exhibition by Colby Vincent Edwards, William Franevsky, and Jarrett Scherff. They make use of some terrific images, creating “a dark childhood fantasy and makes it … Continue reading →

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Team Swan

Posted on February 23, 2012 by rustichello

Fiddlesticks! I am so sick of the ALP. It looks increasingly like the NSW disease has now spread throughout the national body and today they look like they’re nothing but a series of mafia bosses cutting each other down. And … Continue reading →

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Time

Posted on February 22, 2012 by rustichello

Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, David Foster Wallace and Roberto Bolano walk into a bar. They order drinks and arrange their arses on stools. They begin to talk about time. Time, says Borges, you can’t beat time: it limits all … Continue reading →

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onward, ever onward

Posted on February 22, 2012 by rustichello

Now I’m back from Nepal and ensconced in the usual things the temptation is to start to dream afresh, to find a new escape tunnel. But I’m not really escaping in any meaningful sense, just looking out the window and that … Continue reading →

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not on your side

Posted on February 17, 2012 by rustichello

I watched the old Edge of Darkness the other week with Sputnik. She didn’t really get it; it’s a bit much I suppose to expect a twelve year old to figure it all out. I remember I was about eighteen … Continue reading →

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Kevin Carter

Posted on February 15, 2012 by rustichello

  South African photojournalist Kevin Carter took this photograph in 1993 in the Sudan. There are differing accounts of it being taken, some of which imply Carter was himself a vulture, parasitically exploiting the dying girl for money, fame and … Continue reading →

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your own personal Nansen

Posted on February 13, 2012 by rustichello

Most of us stand in shadows, we don’t get, or want, the spotlight. There’s modesty here, most of us do alright and we keep doing it, heroically I think. Most of us won’t get the opportunity to lead, and many … Continue reading →

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Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing

Posted on February 7, 2012 by rustichello

Many years ago, in a shabby flat above a bakery and a travel agent, I made a practice of listening to Leonard Cohen on Sunday mornings. This gesture, in the days of long hours listening to Pantera and Sepultura on … Continue reading →

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