January 30 2011

On Sunday, the thirtieth day of 2011, my neighbour told me the beach was quiet, which surprised me and I soon realised he’d been speaking comparatively. When I got there It was only crowded, as opposed to the freaking circus that it was on Australia Day. Later, Power Plant was a nice way to finish off the Sydney Festival.
Meanwhile in South Korea, five Somali pirates arrived in Busan to stand trial; in Manhattan left wing academic Frances Fox Piven spoke of receiving death threats as the result of Glenn Beck’s hate campaign; and in a desperate search for some non-upsetting news for a change, I found a report of a flying car – I’m sorry, I mean “Transition Roadable Aircraft” – except it runs on fossil fuels. So… I’ll be more excited when they develop the electric version.

Photo by Matthew Andrews

January 19 2011

On the third wednesday of the year, in that hated super-mall, I witnessed a man chase a woman to return a cardigan she’d dropped, then a minute later young man retrieve a lost shoe for toddler. After the performance that night, the audience chucked coins in buckets for the QLD Flood Relief; We’re all being a little nicer to each other. In Switzerland, former banker Rudolf Elmer was re-arrested over the leaking of details of alleged tax evaders to WikiLeaks.

January 14 2011

On the fourteenth day of this year, I was surprised I could still walk after last night’s dance class (four weeks is too bloody long between plies), and finally saw inside the Spiegeltent. In Tunisia a state of emergency was declared after protesters successfully forced dictator Ben Ali to flee the country.