National Gallery of Australia
3 Stars

Lots of out-of-focus dots on canvas. Monet generally does nothing for me, but his Parliament, through Fog had the quality of appearing to be backlit (and as for the fuss over Van Gogh's Starry Night, I just don't get it).

My favourites

Dinner, by lamplight - Vallotton

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I remember when I first learned the word 'human being'. I was watching Doctor Who and Tom Baker was threatening someone with a jelly baby. He described somebody (his companion I think) as a human being.

I learned victory at a primary school assembly (before I was in Year 3 when children were allowed in the choir), it was announced that the choir had ( Read more... )

I cleaned my apartment yesterday. My saintly sister drove up from Wollongong to help. I was mopping the kitchen when my mop head broke off. I was vacuuming and all suction was lost. Everything sucked and was really hard. I was on my hands and knees in the kitchen. And not even doing anything good - I was scrubbing ( Read more... )

Three buff men are packing everything I've ever owned around me.

Oh, Doctor David Tennant. You deserved a better swan song than this.

Yesterday: I just have one wish: to see you at church and then to die.

If my mum ever gives you a Christmas gift, don't expect anything good. I saw three glow-in-the-dark crucifixes being wrapped yesterday.

I know how to get through this. Vodka.

Here is my subjective list of the best movies and albums of the past decade. I was going to do one for books, but having ten trash fiction novels on the list might have been embarrassing ( Read more... )

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My parents had the good china and the good cutlery for important visitors. In retrospect, our good cutlery wasn't that good, but at least it all matched, unlike the regular cutlery ( Read more... )

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/13/death-penalty-uganda-homosexuals
"Learned behaviour can be unlearned," said David Bahati. "You can't tell me that people are born gays. It is foreign influence that is at work."

Bahati has just ( Read more... )