From the yearly archives: 2018
In Henry Lawson’s story, The Union Buries Its Dead, one of the mourners asks with pathetic humour whether we thought the dead man’s ticket would be recognised “over yonder”. .. and the general opinion was that it would be. Laurie Carmichael, for whom the AMWU held a memorial service in Melbourne on Thursday 6 September [...]
I enjoyed all of the documentaries I saw at MIFF 2018, giving five stars to these four. I’m including my contemporaneous tweets to show my immediate responses. They were all on a par really but if I had to order them by preference I’d put them this way: The Eulogy This lets Geoffrey Tozer’s talent [...]
As usual I had a terrific time in August attending the MIFF. It’s a great festival in every respect; well organised, easy to navigate what’s on offer, and a great App through which to book and change and get into sessions. And with so much choice! My biggest criteria for selecting sessions is to avoid [...]
I have been reconnecting with my younger existentialist self. Joe and I attended a week of lectures put on by theUniversity of Melbourne’s School of Continental Philosophy from July 16 to 20, entitled A Show About Nothingness: Episodes From Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and …. The two presenters, Dr Robert Boncardo and Steven Churchill were terrific. [...]
We visited the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Into Light exhibition last week. It consists of paintings on loan from the Musee de la Chartreuse in Douai, in the north of France, an art museum based in a former Carthusian monastery. They’re the monks who made Chartreuse liqueur; it would have been a nice touch to [...]
