Larry Buttrose

Poetry Salon Newcastle Writers Festival next month.

Journalism. Ever more under threat from vested interest, lobby groups, megalomaniacal billionaires, SM keyboard warriors and legions of politicians uncomfortable with fact and truth. All strength to my professional colleagues everywhere. Resistance is fair and balanced reporting.

I’d like to have a chat about it some time. As mentioned on FB to me the brutalist of the title is not really Toth. And that rather nothing model in the film seemed more like a blank canvas than anything else. I’d also like to chat about The Fountainhead…

I saw The Brutalist again yesterday. I can't remember the last time I saw a film twice at the cinema, but I found it just as brilliant, if not richer and deeper... not just a movie you go and see, but as an experience of the true power and beauty of cinema as art.

About 4.3 billion years ago, Mars may have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 450 feet deep

credit: NASA

Correct. They take themselves out to lunch. Not authors.

Have always loved this one…

Double helix UTS night

Greatest little country, quoth Sir Les….

With my daughter Ada at the screening of A Complete Unknown on Sydney Harbour. Magical night. The film itself? A near-miss.

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The Sydneyist Eastside Radio 89.7FM

Here’s the interview Elizabeth Farrelly did with me aired yesterday. To listen go down to The Poet and The City. eastsidefm.org/thesydneyist/

To be fair brother, it is pegged as “Popular Culture”. Apples and oranges, please.

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This promises to be a lively chat today with the wonderful Elizabeth Farrelly.

Clearly that sage pundit Blind Freddy was not consulted.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

This appeared on the pavement near my place overnight. Another reason to love my neighbourhood.. Redfern, baby.

The great SF classic!

Did the Viking mission accidentally destroy life on Mars before we even detected it? That would be a very human thing to do...

everyoneonmars.com/2024/11/28/d...

Blimey… can you report it? They might care here.

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Fcuk!!