Madison Avenue: such an amazing, tuneless blip on the Australian music scene. What’s Cheyne Coates up to these days? A “where are they now?” article from last year doesn’t have any answers, but maybe she’s getting singing lessons.
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Shooter of arrows, constant opinionator. Never over it. @yiduiqie
birds of australia: special CASSOWARY DAY post
This Saturday is World Cassowary Day! So Steph (not Liz, obviously) is delighted to bring you a guest post by regular bird guest poster Michael on this magnificent bird. Forgive the tagging – although Hayley couldn’t join us for this post, I can never let go an opportunity to tag something Ornithology’s David and Margaret, and nor should I be expected to. If you’d like to hear more from him, you should follow Michael on twitter.
Statement from Liz: FOR THE RECORD, it was I who suggested that we get Michael and/or Hayley to commemorate World Cassowary Day. I can’t say I’m delighted to share a continent with prehistoric murder birbs, but I respect them and their homicidal ways, and I wish them well. (I also wish they had a whole continent just to themselves, where they can be TERRIFYING in peace, but I understand and acknowledge that my attitude of Birb Separatism is problematic.)`
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shows we loved: The Pretender
Steph’s FAVOURITE SHOW IN THE WHOLE WORLD, The Pretender, turns 20 today. When Steph was a wee teen, she encountered this show about a genius who was kidnapped and taken away to be an ideas generator in a think tank, and when he grew up he discovered he was doing evil and escaped, and then his childhood bestie was brought in to recapture him.
And did she love it so much that she thinks about it constantly 20 years later? OH, YOU BET.
Elijah Doughty, run over for being black
Under the cut: links, racism, some gross business
No Award goes to Singapore
Steph’s moving on Wednesday (TOMORROW), to be Artist in Residence for three months in a city (Singapore) that’s enough like the ancestral home (Penang) to be familiar, but dissimilar enough that she’s probably going to spend the first two weeks flipping her shit. Do you want to know about what she’s up to? OF COURSE YOU DO. LIVE VICARIOUSLY. (Liz will.)
Elementary Malay, prepared as a guide for R.A.A.F. personnel
Elementary Malay, prepared as a guide for R.A.A.F. personnel, issued for the information and guidance of all concerned
By Command of the Air Board
August 1944
Because Steph’s moving to Singapore next week, and I bet you didn’t know she collects vintage language guides.
[Liz: how did I not know this? It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.]
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very lolstralian things steph said or heard at the footy on the weekend
We’re not saying she said them, but we’re not not-saying she said them
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museum shops of the world:museum für kommunikation frankfurt
Steph actually bought things from this Museum shop, hooray! (Sadly, she wasn’t able to buy these sheeps made from rotary telephones)
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no-award.net 