Eye of the Storm – Alice Springs Writers’ Festival – 3 & 4 May 2009
No words - only fotos!
The Natural History of Selborne – Gilbert White and a dead Moose
...sometimes it seems from White's journal entries and from the letters in Selborne that just about everyone abroad in the Hampshire countryside was armed and looking to shoot something.
Penny Olsen & François le Vaillant’s Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets
The latest edition of the National Library Magazine, from the Australian National Library in Canberra has a fascinating article by Penny on the life and works of the French naturalist and ornithologist François le Vaillant.
Eye of the Storm Writers Festival, Alice Springs, May 1 – 4
The NT Writers' Centre will run the annual Alice Springs Writers Festival, named 'Eye of the Storm' in Alice Springs from May 1 to 4 2009.
Po’ Monkey’s Lounge – Merigold, Mississippi
$5 entry, $3 beer - no fire or liquor licenses or other permits or authorities - and Po' Monkey vigorously enforces his own strict set of rules - no baseball caps, no guns, no baggy-ass pants - this effectively excludes young teenage gangsters from the lounge - no fighting, no beer bought in and no dope smoking.
Trailer watch – Branagh as Wallander
Fans of good crime will recall the English translations of most, if not all of the Wallander novels have been available in Australia for the last few years. I hope someone working in the ABC or SBS catches up with these films and buys them for Australian release - by all accounts it is a series well worth watching.
Ten Poems about Highways and Birds…via negativa
Crows commute, heads down, their line of black Fords slow but steady. A heron keeps his Bentley in low gear.
Margaret’s Grocery and Market, Vicksburg, Mississippi
Margarets has been a work in progress over many years by the Reverend H. D. Dennis who was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1916. The min building has a long verandah fronted by a scattering of signs and sculptures across the front of the block. To one side is a jumbled and half-built, half-wrecked and slowly collapsing tower and an old bus which served, or may still serve, as a Chapel from which the good Reverend H D Dennis preaches.
Warlukurlangu – taking the desert to (New) Delhi
So here we are a few years down the track.. the global economy has crashed, gloom and doom all around and we are spending a bloody fortune going half way around the world to try to flog a few pics...