Well it's still Vegetarian Week

"Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has decided to reject Application A545 – Vegetarian Labelling. This information provides notice to interested parties of the rejection of Application A545. It is not an invitation for public comment."

- oh actually it is


"To propose to use an Australian and New Zealand domestic food standard aimed at
regulating the quality and safety of foods to fulfil needs based on moral and/or religious
beliefs and/or for environmental reasons is a purpose that goes beyond the intent of
Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991."

- heaven forbid, food standards being moral, whatever next, Anarchy?

It's National Vegetarian Week

Vegetarian Society display at Belconnen Library, Canberra.



Events for the Week, can be found here.

Best website ever

I post this link to the Real Life Super Heroes website not to be funny, people dressing up as superheroes can be intrinsicly funny, but out of respect, awe and let's face it plain jealousy.

These Superheroes don't take on crime per se, but other social ills like 'the environment'. Fighting these sorts of 'issues' rather than Supervillians or crime syndicates may not seem very dangerous but they are none the less extremely challenging - as such I salute them.


Also they are hot!

Addendum

I forgot, am a Librarian (thus hero), so don't need a costume apart from my day to day workwear.

Trees - becoming somewhat of a motif

Fence

Birdman

Australian population forecasts ignored Edgar at its peril

News today - "The Federal Government has significantly upgraded its population forecasts for Australia to over 35 million people within 40 years.

The Government says its third intergenerational report will show the country's population is expected to grow by 65 per cent by the year 2049.

That is significantly higher than the Government's Second Intergenerational Report which predicted a rise to about 29 million people." - they forgot to count me

Adorno on Australia (written 1940s published 1951)

Nothing can be more touching than the worry of lovers, that a new person could attract love and tenderness – their finest possessions, just because they cannot be possessed – precisely by means of that newness, which is itself produced by the privilege of the older. But from this touchingness, whose disintegration would mean the simultaneous disintegration of all warmth and snugness [Geborgensein], leads an irresistible path from the aversion of the little child to its younger siblings and the contempt of the fraternity brother to the pledge, to the immigration laws which exclude all non-Europeans in social democratic Australia, all the way to the Fascist extermination of racial minorities, wherein in fact warmth and snugness explode into nothingness. It is not only, as Nietzsche knew, that all good things were once evil: even the most tender of these, left to its own momentum, has the tendency to culminate in unthinkable barbarity. - Theodor Adorno

Nick Cave

Have just seen the Nick Cave exhibition (http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/nick-cave/). It was very good in parts. I was unsurprised to see in his bookshelves (partially on display) that he had collections of Larkin, Auden and Betjeman. Whilst his work is often considered to rely so heavily on American gothic (subject matter namely) I have always thought his poetic meter was actually really quite traditionally English.

Cave of course name checked the great Larkin in There she goes, my beautiful world

"Karl Marx squeezed his carbuncles while writing Das Kapital
And Gaugin, he buggered off, man, and went all tropical
While Philip Larkin stuck it out in a library in Hull
And Dylan Thomas died drunk in St Vincent's hospital" - Nick Cave

This lyric example, bears no relation to the English poetry of the above named, but if you look at the word structure of an earlier work like Mutiny in Heaven I think that shows what I mean.


I have checked, I can't find a Larkin reference to Cave, but then Larkin always favoured the Jazz (and its mags) to rock.

Richard Scarry gives us no hope

"So much does the realization of labour appear as loss of reality that the worker loses his reality to the point of dying of starvation. So much does objectification appear as loss of the object that the worker is robbed of the objects he needs most not only for life but also for work. Work itself becomes an object which he can only obtain through an enormous effort and with spasmodic interruptions. So much does the appropriation of the object appear as estrangement that the more objects the worker produces the fewer can he possess and the more he falls under the domination of his product, of capital." - Marx (1844)


Oh but hang on, see below, Scarry is clearly mad.

We are all embarrassed by this

"Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a LAW divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?" - Shelley

Something you never wanted to see

First Nijinsky, then Roy Castle and now this.

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