Author: cottonward

Visit to Villawood Detention Centre

It was a beautiful Sunday arvo. Traipsed out west to support the Refugee Action Coalition in a clash with the right-wing Australian Protectionist Party. The APP had organised the rally because they think Rudd should go back to Howard’s Pacific Solution. I listened to their speech and they actually think the Pacific Solution wasn’t harsh enough, our borders should be completely closed to “illegals” (what they call people who flee for their lives without having valid passports and entry visas sorted out a year beforehand).

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Actor Robert Hughes interview: ABBA — The Movie

As an ABBA superfan, I met Robert Hughes one afternoon in 1991 to make a historical record of his recollections of working with ABBA.

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Bisexual trivia nite

Joined the Bisexual table at a general trivia night. The quiz master must have been used to serious quizgoers, as he kept enforcing strict rules about keeping mobile phones off and during True and False game team members weren’t allowed to help each other.

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A’s birthday party

Went to A’s birthday. T and R were there and T said she’d mainly seen punk bands and alternative, indie music, but she went to see Britney and it was “totally fantastic!” “I’d been told all my life that the mainstream was CRAP, but it wasn’t! The escalators – going up to our seats – even had glittery lights!”

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art exhibition

Boogie by Moonlight

Until March 23, Kerrie Lowe Gallery exhibition, 49 King St Newtown.

Nine artists celebrate Mardi Gras in clay, paint, jewellery, assemblage, photography, feathers, buttons and beads.

Fave bits: Emily Valentine’s minor birds bra and Kay Allibrand’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Amazing.