Category: gadfly
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Tree house party!
This weekend I am off to Berlin to visit my old friend Emu (yes, his real name and he isn’t even Australian). He has just built a tree house for his son to live in and he is having a party to celebrate. What better reason to go to Berlin!
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Anti-intellectualism: Causes
I found this in an unlikely source. A spiritual site. It is the paragraph on ‘pragmatism’ (or at least practicality) that caught my eye. It is not that there is anything wrong with ‘pragmatism’; pragmatism is needed to address all sorts of work related tasks. But pragmatism is rarely ideological neutral. It is what pragmatists…
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RIP Chrysler
When I was a Kid in Tasmania my mother owned a mission brown Chrysler Valiant VIP. It was as big as a whale. In the back seat it had pull down trays and spot lights like an aeroplane. It had a huge roaring motor that drank fuel like there was no tomorrow. My mother would…
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‘I believe in the genital organs of great men and women…’
The sad death of a great humanist. RIP JG Ballard. (Thanks to Gabriel B for the link)
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Look at this *ing hipster!
Ok, who says blogging has to be serious? (thanks to Mary-Anne Breeze (Mez), facebook).
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The tyranny of the practical mind…
“For these people, the concrete has become an asylum, a hideout, salvation. Cedar- well, that’s something concrete; so is asphalt. You can speak out about the concrete and express yourself as freely as you like. The great thing about the concrete is that it has restricted armed frontiers with warning bells. When a mind immersed…