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The 34th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, coordinated worldwide by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), hosted by Living Positive Victoria #LPV and the Victorian AIDS Council #VAC. The #IACM starts at the #QueensbridgeSq stage. [#L
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11 years since I got my first 'smartphone', just 2 1/2 years after joining the mobile phone generation. #O2
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Philip Pullman: Northern Lights (His Dark Materials 1). The first part is beautifully written & wonderful storytelling. Unfortunately towards the end it gets a bit bogged down and then wraps up in undue haste in a woeful soap scene with toecurling dialogu
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#Netflix Team America World Police. Astonishing that just a couple of years. after the 9:11 attacks a major American film could be this scathing of US foreign policy (as well as many other things!). And it's very funny, in a cleverly stupid way: "fuck yea
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Healthy healthy healthy. Resisting #Archies special (fried chicken waffles!!) in our countdown to Wednesday's weigh-in…
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Epaminondas was a character in a 1907 book 'E. and his Auntie' by American author Sara Cone Bryant, based on Southern US folk tales. Criticised for its stereotypical depiction of Southern African-Americans, it nevertheless inspired several stories by Engl
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Soirée for a Cause: And There Was Cake! (one made by the amazing (& ex-Pres) @john_lovettmelb) Happy birthday Jeeves :)
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Soirée for a Cause: hosted by the inimitable Dolly Diamond (top left) the evening certainly put the fun into fundraising, with performers putting on quite a show! (part 1)
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Soirée for a Cause: trust @photosbyjeevs to organise his 40th birthday party as a fundraiser for the #VictorianAIDSCouncil #VAC! Here he is dueting with his brother (on guitar)
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Remember Body… An aptly-titled anthology of Cavafy's poems, each full of longing and/or nostalgic remembrance of melting flesh and discreet passion. A bit rich and cloying to read in one go, like Shakespeare's sonnets…
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Dumplingeddon! To celebrate (and slow down?!) losing 5kg in 2 weeks I had dumpling 3 times in 2 days: #ShangdongMaMa (no pic, always underwhelming, probably my last time there ever); #ChinaRed (on left, very tasty); #GoodLuckTeaHouse (on right, huge, good
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Now that the Dallas Brooks Hall is demolished (plus the street trees) there's a temporary view of the 1980s Freemasons Hospital clinics (I wrote a Uni lecture featuring them called 'Collage and Contextuality' which was all rather #PoMo)
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#NGVI Messenger by Geoffrey Bartlett, 1982, originally placed in the moat at the front of the gallery, now in the rear sculpture garden.
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#NGVI 2016 Architecture Commission: Haven't you always wanted …? A Blackburn car wash is reconstructed as an art object and playground, and is stunningly successful (with a glittering Farnsworth House sheen). Congrats to Vivian Mitsogianni, Dean Boothroyd
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#NGVI 2016 Architecture Commission: Haven't you always wanted …[to run through all that foam at the car lovers]?, by M@ STUDIO Architects, a competition team of academics, graduates & students from #RMIT' School of Architecture & Design.
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#Malthouse Away. What a play! And what an amazing production, note perfect in poetic resonance as these imperfect characters move slowly from darkness into a sort of light.
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#Malthouse Away. 30th anniversary for Michael Gow's Australian classic (I missed it then).
