Archive for June, 2006
Monday, June 26th, 2006
Tassie Bridge Story
Looking at some old photos I took of the Westgate Bridge got me thinking about another significant elevated arterial link in Australia, Hobart’s Tasman Bridge, hit by the Lake Illawarra, an iron ore tanker, in 1975. As a young lad the dramatic newspapers pictures were emblazoned on my nascent cultural awareness: two cars hanging precariously […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Kick It Long
There was an article in the newspaper the other day about the increasing corporatisation of football in Melbourne. The piece talked about how Melbourne footy clubs no longer have any real connection to their history; how the AFL’s relentless “rationalisation” policy means that all the Melbourne clubs now play out of the same ground. Carlton; […]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Platform
As a travel writer, I consider myself extremely fortunate to have made my acquaintance with Michel Houellebecq’s nasty, but exhilarating novel, Platform, which I’ve just re-read. It really goes to town on travel guidebooks. It makes even the most seemingly innocuous travel-writing phrase a cringe-worthy exercise in self-loathing, like the term “a good base camp” […]
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
About Sleepy Brain
This is the new incarnation — Phase IV — of Sleepy Brain, which has been offline for the past six months. It used to be more of a magazine, with regular contributors, but now is basically a blog run by Simon Sellars, a Melbourne writer and editor, as the magazine format was too difficult to […]
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