Oh, wow, I stayed in a hotel on via Faenza back in the 80s. Can't recall the name, though.

Anyone know how to make this a ringtone for my phone?

Protest genius!

To deVance.

opposite of advance one's interests

And I feel for the Indian community here. None of us are free from political interference in our lives. Let's be clear on who the funders are first. We need to back each other on this one. Not be divided by the interests of a few. Still a good country, my father thought so.

Prestige Fiction Is Dead | Los Angeles Review of Books Evan Brier’s recent book conducts a depressing literary autopsy, complete with case studies.

Good of LARB to share articles for free every day.
If prestige fiction is in decline/dead, why so many writing courses? Unless they have no literary interests anymore, just genre reproduction. Is academia even interested in language or just reproducing banality?

lareviewofbooks.org/article/nove...

If you want to pay through the nose for accomodation then go to Japan during cherry blossom season.

Gina Reinhart won't like all that free iron ore getting into the wrong hands.

he-he

I'm Banksy

Banksy's anonymity has been shredded along with the mystery of his work Does Banksy's success mean we are more entitled to demand he pull his mask off, show his face? Does it matter that he says his anonymity is core to his art?

Bansky is a collective, you fools!

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Find a wealthy suburb. Notice the size of houses under construction. Count the number of tradies working. That's where all the tradespeople are. That's why you can't get a tradesperson in Australia - not because government spending sucks them out of the economy. They're building private monoliths.

Cosplay Kristi is gone? How will we cope?

Labor look in good shape right now. But Albanese should look at Howard's years for the future. At the Liberal's peak, they rode high on values that divided. But they saw to their decline. They play to maniacal algorithms, looking for Mr Right and lose votes. Labor is danger from narrow viewpoints.

I wish you all the best.

Same people who did that great mural of Tony Abbott and George Pell hot and frothy in a crotch grab moment?

Walter Benjamin once wrote:

“Capitalism is entirely without precedent. It is a religion which offers not the reform of existence, but its complete destruction.”

He could clearly see in the 1930s what has come back into view for us now. Capitalist nihilism is back.

Normally this should be viewed as an assault on a democratic institutions. Records tell it as it is. They are hard to argue against.

What were they feeding the poor guy that he died at only 12 years of age?

Australia news live: Chris Minns accuses Pauline Hanson of ‘racist intervention’, backs police who disrupted Muslim prayers at protest Follow live

Does Chris Minns not understand that backing police for beating up muslims in prayer, prostrate on the ground, immersed in spiritual thoughts is about as bad as anything Pauline Hanson has ever said.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Millionaire economist's dire warning for Australian property market British economist Gary Stevenson is on a speaking tour, warning Australia will follow the path of the UK with "poverty exploding" unless politicians deal with inequality.

Gary Stevenson is worth listening to. He's smart and comes from that end of town where people are now suffering. Referring to him as a millionaire is the ABC way of protecting property values by diluting his message. He's smart, and cares about what's happened.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Sent a few copies of Man Alone to Denmark last week. We've now sold (outside of Australia) to USA, Canada, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece in three years. Yeah, we're small.

Far-right character’s monologue prompts violent scenes at German theatre Actor shouted down and pelted with fruit during Catarina, or the Beauty of Killing Fascists

Tragic decline in understanding art.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

That's nice, but none of this is available in Australia.

When is Criterion Chanel coming to Australia? what's going on! What is Australia excluded from these films!

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Is anyone surprised.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Three years on: what is the latest with Premier League charges against Manchester City? | Paul MacInnes In February 2023 more than 100 charges were laid against the serial champions but we are still waiting for the verdict

Football is broken.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Cristiano Ronaldo warned by Saudi Pro League amid transfer spending dispute Cristiano Ronaldo has been told by the Saudi Pro League ‘no individual determines decisions beyond their club’ amid a dispute over transfer spending

Football is broken.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

US congressional report explores option of not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia Report offers alternative of the US navy retaining boats and operating them out of Australian bases

AUKUS: it feels like no less than US extortion

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Randa Abdel-Fattah and Louise Adler to headline alternative to cancelled Adelaide writers’ week Constellations, a series of events compiled after Adelaide festival board scrapped AWW, will run from 28 February to 5 March

We need to free ourselves from the old institutions that stifle the arts. Here we go, free of the past.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...