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Antlers! Cocktails!

Stilgherrian — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:26:50 +0000

I take back everything negative I’ve ever said about the Hotel Cremorne. I went exploring upstairs and found a cocktail bar called “Antlers”. Antlers and cocktails? Heaven!

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Weekly Poll: Merry Bloody Christmas!

Stilgherrian — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:58:28 +0000

Yes, it’s that time of year again, when a celebration of the birth of social radical Joshua bar Joseph is turned into a retail extravaganza.

How do you feel about Christmas? Personally, I get annoyed with the “compulsory cheerfulness” and the pointless mob behaviour. As the old saying goes, you can’t pick your families, and Christmas forces them together regardless — though reports that the suicide rate peaks at Christmas is an urban legend.

Yes, how do you feel about Christmas? Go to the website to vote, or add your comments here.

[Yes, that is me in the photograph. I made the antlers for the Snarky Platypus, who should be wearing them on Friday, and ’Pong took the photo using my Nokia N80.]

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Hey, classy antlers, Doc!

Stilgherrian — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:30:50 +0000

The Snarky Platypus will appreciate this one, I’m sure. This is Royal Stags, a mixed media artwork from 2005 by Kate Rohde which is currently gracing the walls at Sydney’s Gallery 4a.

It’s part of an exhibition called 4αXY, which celebrates the gallery’s 10th birthday by exhibiting works from the collection of Dr Dick Quan who, as I’ve mentioned before, is a passionate collector of contemporary Australian and Asian art.

Dr Quan has been a supporter of Gallery 4a, run by the Asian Australian Artists Association Inc, from the very beginning. The works on show are not just personal choices. “The aesthetic climate change that I see is a really interesting world that we can’t fear,” he says. “We have to give it a really big smooch!”

4αXY includes works by Angelo Filomeno, Shaun Gladwell, Peter Graham, Ken Kagami and Wang Guan-Yi as well, and it runs until 1 December. The photo of Royal Stags is mine, taken on my phone.