2021 marked the first this millennium that I spent an entire calendar year in WA. 2022 may yet prove the same. When it comes to travel, though, I have not been scraping the bottom of the barrel. Rather, the barrel has proved to be deep. From September 2003 to June 2019, I spent a total…
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Jan
England captain Joe Root made exactly 50 on the first day of the Boxing Day cricket test. Above is my Boxing Day 50. Don’t worry. As we say in Perth: ‘But it’s a dry heat!’
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Dec
I’ve seen queer traffic lights on Avenida Santa Fe, or Santa Gay, in Buenos Aires. It’s also where they have a queer subway station. ‘In a society that educates us to be ashamed, pride is a political response.’
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Dec
I had my first date with an argentino at the Alto Palermo shopping centre in Buenos Aires. We went to the cinema complex at the top of the building. I thought we were seeing an Ashton Kutcher romantic comedy, but it turned out to be a Stephen King thriller about aliens. Is this a First…
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Dec
I’ve been looking for an opportunity to post about Chita Rivera. Stephen Sondheim’s death makes it time. I once paid $500 to spend 45 seconds with Julie Andrews. That was just for the meet and greet part. It was over $700 if you included the show beforehand. Chita Rivera’s one-woman show at His Majesty’s Theatre…
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Nov
Back in the nineties, I had a friend who in turn had a CD collection that cost him $27,000. He played me tracks from Forbidden Broadway and Forbidden Hollywood, which parodied tunes and made fun of stars. Ten years later, JJ took me to see the show Forbidden Broadway in an off-Broadway theatre. The creator,…
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Nov
I hadn’t been to Araluen Botanic Park, on the outskirts of Perth, since my twenty-eighth birthday. That must have been about ten years ago.* I went back yesterday afternoon to see the Roleystone Theatre perform The Taming of the Shrew. *May not be true
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Nov
