Author: Brian Matthews
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 07 January 2009
4 Comments
The rumoured potential of the Large Hadron Collider to bring about the disintegration of the universe captured the public imagination. 'Hadron' is a word susceptible to misprinting of a kind that destroys the seriousness of any discussion. (September 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 December 2008
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I don't support the view that cab drivers are sources of homespun wisdom and arcane knowledge. Australian cabbies are an amiable, diverse lot, not
given to philosophy, though I encountered one spectacular exception.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 04 November 2008
5 Comments
It's 1996 and I'm saddling up to give the Sir Robert Menzies Lecture at London University. My topic is Henry Lawson and Manning Clark. 'Manfred who?' asks a baffled London colleague. The lecture's on Melbourne Cup Day. It could be an omen.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 15 October 2008
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Recent events both aeronautical and financial have been enough to scare anyone off banks and aeroplanes forever. Global economic chaos is nothing compared with the trauma of being stuck next to a large person on a plane.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 September 2008
1 Comment
The rumoured potential of the Large Hadron Collider to bring about the disintegration of the universe captured the public imagination. 'Hadron' is a word susceptible to misprinting of a kind that destroys the seriousness of any discussion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 20 August 2008
3 Comments
We've seen the 'end of history' and the 'death of God', yet the humble book lives on. While technology buffs embrace the e-book, printed books continue to exercise an atavistic attraction through their fusion of form and content.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 23 July 2008
The Great Uraidla Pub Mural was the wonder and enigma of locals and tourists alike. The occasional knowledgeable blow-in would be flabbergasted and deeply impressed to find 'a Tom Gleghorn' on the wall.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 June 2008
1 Comment
Things are Kafkaesque when you are caught in a labyrinth of
unmanageable and inexplicable circumstances. I sprang to the phone and a pleasant, robotic female voice told me how valuable I was and that I was sixth in the
queue.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 21 May 2008
2 Comments
The ordered natural world of the garden is a place where disturbing thoughts can be annihilated, but only temporarily. Half a world away, brutal generals are using natural disaster to repress the weak and powerless.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 April 2008
'Geo-politically astute' astrologer Jessica Murray believes revelations about China's violations against Tibet were prompted by astrological activity. For all their glib outlandishness and pseudo-scientific jargon, contemporary astrologers still fascinate.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 26 March 2008
2 Comments
Camus' plague was a metaphor for the Second World War German occupation of France. Our plague is no metaphor. It's the truth of the planet's advancing impatience with its reckless colonisers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 13 February 2008
1 Comment
This week we heard that the Ten Network has snared the rights to the forthcoming Indian Premier League series from Channel Nine. For three decades, broadcast cricket has been synonymous with Nine, which has delivered many advances including 'stump cam'.
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