Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!
Victorian-era Melbourne had a thriving sex industry, and the flashiest of the flash madams was Caroline Hodgson, aka Madame Brussels. My guest today is Barbara Minchinton, author of the new book, Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman.
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As the autumn series of the Edict overflows into Official Winter, we go arty with Esther Anatolitis, editor of Australian literary journal Meanjin and a colossus striding the Melbourne arts scene and beyond.
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My week of Monday 13 to Sunday 19 March 2023 was less productive than I’d hoped because fatigue levels were high. I don’t know why. This week’s Wrap is late, and very much a by-the-numbers exercise. Even the photo is from the other week.
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I’ve had a devil of a week. See what I did there? My week of Monday 27 February to Sunday 5 March 2023 was packed with interest, including a wonderful podcast, an outstanding airshow, and an encounter with the so-called “cookersâ€, or anti-everything protesters. So much so that this Weekly Wrap is a day late. Are we all coping?
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 666: Visiting Melbourne after a three-year gap and other reminders of the past”
Cam Smith aka @sexenheimer on the Twitters has spent way, way too long down the rabbit-holes of the conspiracy theorists. He joins me for the second proper episode in The 9pm End of Spring Series 2020.
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The week of Monday 24 February to Sunday 1 March 2020 began in a rainy Melbourne and ended in a sunny Sydney, and I made a good podcast.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 509: Politics in a podcast, cybers, and more politics in words”