Monthly Archives: June 2012

glad animal action

Posted on June 29, 2012 by rustichello

I’m sometimes asked why cricket caught my imagination so strongly when I was a kid. I usually answer that it was something to do with masculinity and those magnificent moustaches that early eighties Australian test players sported, especially fast bowlers. … Continue reading →

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overreach

Posted on June 28, 2012 by rustichello

All morning I’ve been listening to the brouhaha coming out of Canberra about old boats, new boats, more boats, and border security. I have listened all sides of politics talking energetically about how important security is for Australia and how we … Continue reading →

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we’ll forget

Posted on June 27, 2012 by rustichello

One of the few things I took from my Nan’s house when she died was a battered copy of Thomas Keneally’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Within it were a series of underlined passages featuring a handyman, a jack-of-all-trades named Robert … Continue reading →

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concrete

Posted on June 26, 2012 by rustichello

“the ritualizing of recollection of the mutual experience of the nation’s triumph and the nation’s defeat was then supposed to help stabilise the unity and identity of the community. There are still good reasons for maintaining this view of things … Continue reading →

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Port of Morrow

Posted on June 21, 2012 by rustichello

There’s a kind of music criticism that involves reviewing an album (or a something) on the basis of everything that’s come before it in the career of those who made the album. I try not to go down this path, … Continue reading →

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no going back: Game of Thrones

Posted on June 20, 2012 by rustichello

During the last eighteen months I’ve got into Game of Thrones, reading George Martin’s five or six novels (depending on your market location) and watching the HBO television series. I’ve had great fun with it, I find myself having lovely … Continue reading →

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scrapbooking, we’re scrapbooking

Posted on June 15, 2012 by rustichello

Going through the boxes of youthful detritus the other day I found several of my 1980s scrapbooks into which I pasted cut-out reviews and gig advertisements from newspapers and magazines. As a youth in the country the scrapbooks were a … Continue reading →

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something

Posted on June 14, 2012 by rustichello

I’ve been following this story about a couple who were expelled from a yoga retreat in Arizona and instead of going home they went and hid in a cave to continue with their retreat. Half of the couple, Ian Thorson, … Continue reading →

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journeymen

Posted on June 11, 2012 by rustichello

I had been worried that I’d lost the programme for Eric Clapton’s 1990 Journeyman Tour. I couldn’t remember the last time I saw it, well actually I could remember seeing it when I moved to our house up the hill … Continue reading →

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a cigar too far

Posted on June 5, 2012 by rustichello

It would appear that the great Craig Thomson-Health Services Union scandal has finally come off the boil. As with so many scandals the salacious bit is really not the issue, having sex in brothels is not illegal and hardly unexpected. … Continue reading →

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