Some Buenos Aires residents refer to Avenida Santa Fe as Santa Gay. I’ve seen queer traffic lights in Munich and Trafalgar Square. And now on Santa Gay. I almost got myself run over there, which might have been the most fitting near-death experience since a glitter-ball almost hit Boy George. This is what BA traffic lights normally look…
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Mar
This year, in Perth, I’ve seen the slogan telling us to ‘forget boring’. Well, I forgot it last night at PICA when I saw ‘The Second Woman’. Not all of it, as it involved the same actress doing the same ten-minute scene 100 times with 100 different men, over the course of 24 hours. We…
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Mar
Twenty-three years before we were in the above photo, my friend Paula flew home from Perth to Buenos Aires, via: Sydney Auckland Tahiti Easter Island and Santiago. On my first trip to Buenos Aires in 2003, I was happy when I only had to stop at Sydney and Auckland. Ditto for 2005. Even happier on…
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Mar
Last year, a friend looked down at my feet and said, ‘I see you’re wearing your contraceptive shoes.’ Many of my clothes would not be out of place in a contraceptive wardrobe. But I know a thing or two about travel outfits. Note how I’m wearing trousers here: … and shorts here: Detachable cargo pants…
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Feb
Argentine beef has become expensive. I also don’t think it’s as tender as it used to be. Apparently, the cattle are fed differently. Is this partly why, for the first time in seven trips, I saw these words last year in Buenos Aires?
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Feb
When I did my shows at Fringe World, I put on previews. they were a chance to iron things out before opening night. They also meant that I had, in a sense, two opening nights: one official and one unofficial. A preview isn’t meant to be quite the final product, so the ticket prices are…
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Feb
This is the ‘Pumpkin with Cut Tip’ by Ricardo Gabarito. I saw it at MALBA – the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires.
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Feb
Queen Mary is having a bit of a revival. A friend is soon to leave Fremantle on the Queen Mary 2. If I go on Netflix, I can see her prominent appearance in the first season of The Crown. But for me, she never went away, as this picture from Madame Tussaud’s in 1991 demonstrates….
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Feb
