Little Patty in Moscow

Melodifestivalen and Eurovision tragic, Little Patrick from Canberra was in Moscow for Eurovision. Here he is partying the night away at one of the many happenings surrounding the contest. He sent these pics to James who kindly passed them on to me. Imagine flying all the way around the world from boring on Canberra to [...]

9 o’clock swill

“The Six o’clock swill was the last-minute rush to buy drinks at a hotel bar before it closed. During a significant part of the 20th century, Australian and New Zealand hotels shut their public bars at 6 p.m.; between finishing work (5 p.m.) and this early closing hour, men drank heavily. Six o’clock closing time [...]

Good and Evil in Australian Sport

What a contrast. The above photo is of Matt Mitcham and Matthew Johns. Good versus Evil. Light versus Dark. In the first shot we see a young man who went through hell and back because of his sexuality and turned his life around with the support of a loving partner. We see a young man [...]

THEM in Carnival Knowledge

After working from home on Friday, I wasn’t about to put my glad-rags on and venture out into the night. I had another look at some of the video tapes I’d uncovered recently, particularly those that had the 80s drag shows on them that I was such a huge fan of back then. While I’ve [...]

Parker, Well Done!

How uber-camp is this song! I actually have it on a record somewhere. Vinyl of course! And how can you argue with something that was filmed in ‘SUPERMARIONATION’. Oh my god, I loved that word when I was a kid. I had a crush on Virgil Tracy although some people thought his acting was rather [...]

Modern Life: The Magic Token

How far we’ve come with technology and magical devices that enable us to do all sorts of things from different places instead of being stuck at one single desk in one single work location. I woke up this morning feeling like kerrrrap! You have two choices normally: you go to work and feel like death [...]

My god, there was a sofa there after all!

Yoda and I sat on this sofa after it was uncovered late on Sunday afternoon. It was a triumph of our efforts after two days. Not the end of the process, just a beginning. But it was a real sign that we had accomplished something. We went through boxes and boxes of stuff and chucked [...]

A long way to go

There’s a small part of my lounge room that looks relatively neat and vacuumed and as if a regular human being might actually live here. That part is obviously not in the picture above! Today has been all about trying to round up papers to do with the organisation that Grant and I ran for [...]

When your life partner dies unexpectedly…

…calling their answering machine can give you a sense that they are still with you. I’d also like to say that I’ve learnt in life that it is a really bad idea to get drunk and then have an argument with your boyfriend or girlfriend. If they have a car, they’ll probably drive off right [...]

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