I thought I’d open with this gorgeous picture courtesy of the NASA website. I’m not one for Halloween; it’s too sugary and overly commercial for my liking. Our cousins across the pacific ocean love it and it gets a run in Europe too. But this moon shot from that night is lovely.
While on things spacial what do you think is the average colour of the universe? Beige. Remarkable isn’t it? You don’t believe me? Well you should. Click here for the evidence where you can find the NASA website.
Mother Jones is a remarkable US on-line journal. A little to the political left, it’s remarkable because it’s open and broad it how it reports what it finds. In this environmental article there is a lot to learn. There isn’t much point in my retelling the story; better that you read it for yourself. But I will say it's possible glimpse into the carbon trading future if it gets abused by greed.
In the political centre is another smart piece of on-line journalism is The Nation. It’s worth checking this one regularly for a different approach to the world. Have a look at the small line below the header.
While on things spacial what do you think is the average colour of the universe? Beige. Remarkable isn’t it? You don’t believe me? Well you should. Click here for the evidence where you can find the NASA website.
Mother Jones is a remarkable US on-line journal. A little to the political left, it’s remarkable because it’s open and broad it how it reports what it finds. In this environmental article there is a lot to learn. There isn’t much point in my retelling the story; better that you read it for yourself. But I will say it's possible glimpse into the carbon trading future if it gets abused by greed.
In the political centre is another smart piece of on-line journalism is The Nation. It’s worth checking this one regularly for a different approach to the world. Have a look at the small line below the header.
Let me know what you think, offer a comment.
I’ve taken time off this week and the weather has been warm as toast – till today. I’ve been around Melbourne to a few new, newish or developing places around the Docklands are on the city’s western edge.
Our wonderful version of the London Eye, which opened to great fanfare a year ago and lasted only a few short months till Black Saturday, Feb 7 2009 when it cracked because it couldn’t handle the heat, 46 degrees of heat to be exact. It’s almost dismantled now and there are differing stories on whether it’ll be rebuilt or discarded. It looks very sad but I can’t help but wonder how it managed to meet safety standards knowing we get some pretty hot days. In fact it struck me as stupid.
Next to it is another “factory outlet” string of shops called Harbour Town. Locally it’s been referred to as Ghost Town because no much goes there. No one much did when I was there Thursday either. So what do we do? We build another similar venture a kilometre away called Direct Factory Outlets. It’s all under cover and smells very new. But it’s the same as the other place. What is it with Melbourne and factory outlets? There’s a lot all around the suburbs and someone’s god must know why – I don’t. I see no value or [GFC] long term stimulus gain either. Just more empty retail space in a couple of years. I might be wrong, who can say, but I doubt it.
Having said that, I picked up a very smart silver bargain while I was there.
N2N
Now let’s have a natter about Next to Normal, N2N as the show’s spin doctors and the Broadway press refer to it. Lets consider a musical that deals with “un-feel good” stuff. That’s unusual. Let’s deal with bi-polar disorder, teenage angst, the medical profession and let’s see what kind of musical that makes. If the crits are to be believed, pretty good. I’m not up with the music yet though I read it has a pop music edge. Will it work in Melbourne where the feel good musical and feel good performers are pretty much still expected? It’s not a big cast so I’m guessing it’d do a 2 or 4 week season at Theatreworks in St Kilda or Chapel of Chapel in Prahran, or somewhere similar on the north side. That could be a shame because even though I’ll catch up with it, most of Melbourne won’t and perhaps they should.
It's a good show Folks. And remember most of you heard it here first.
