Mirizozo

I went to Mirazozo at the Opera House the other day. On the website one learns that this is an earth-shattering transport to an experience that will change your life...well, it was nice; I'd call it trivially diverting, like most touted earth-shattering experiences promoted by artists, intellectual do-gooders and the chattering classes in general!

Summer Fun

I don't know if its dawned on anyone else, but summers have been so interesting in recent years: the South Asian tsunami, Victoria's bushfires, the Haiti earthquake, and now Queensland is underwater.

ABC TV has been treating the floods like a sports cast: live crosses, studio updates, etc. But Kym Landers has to take the cake: she was almost jubilant with the fun of flood reporting the other night. C'mon Kym.

Now I know Anna Bligh is under pressure, and probably doing a great job, but what's special about Qlders? Well, if they get knocked down they'll get up again! Anna, everyone's like that; everyone pulls together, everyone helps each other...its called being human.

Flood Lesson 1

Don't build cities in flooding river valleys.

Seems simple, doesn't it? It didn't occur to Brisbane's planners!

Just Don't

Here's the drill: don't fly single engined low wing monoplanes, don't ride old Honda mini bikes, no riderless horses without saddles allowed, don't drive '68 Camaros, no labradors(!), don't light smoky fires, don't use old Winchester .222s, and lastly don't use a golf driver to hit a cricket ball near a flag.

All pretty sensible, really.

Government supports Scientology

I knew that the NSW Government had gone crazy when it decided on the Exploding Waratah for its logo. Now its gone the full distance and decided to sponsor the Church of Scientology: an Australian Government supporting a religion, and a dimwit one at that!

I saw it on the ferry wharf at Circular Quay in Sydney: "Keep Clear".

Scientologists urge one to become/stay/strive for 'clear'. It means that the ficticious gremlins are out of your system. Now the NSW Government is in on it too.

Coffee Worshippers?

Spotted on a church notice board in Annandale: I've seen some completely naff church adverts, but this is close to the bottom (or top): as if there aren't a million coffee shops in inner Sydney; or do they think that a coffee cup is what's missing in people's lives?

The Exploding Waratah

The NSW Government has decided to adopt a logo, you know, just like any other consumer product. Well, it's chosen the exploding waratah, and now sticks it everywhere. This is  because it has not actually DONE anything that we would remember it by!

If only all public servants would wear it as a lapel badge (you know how I love these), we'd be able to tell when to use short sentences and simple words with people we meet.

The NSW Exploding Waratah