Salon 36
9 September, 2013
I’m still nursing bruises. Not from the election, but small balls of paint hitting my flesh at 110kph. The punishment was in the name of my daughter’s 16th birthday, where a bunch of us scrambled around barrels, walls and forts with pump-action splatball rifles. High-gloss fun.
For your diaries, next week I’m running a free session on Thursday evening at the Doncaster Library – all Melbourne dabblers welcome. And in case you can’t get enough DA-AM, I’m cohosting the Conversation Hour this Tuesday with Jon Faine, meeting the curators of the First People exhibition at Melbourne Museum, as well as the comic historian David Hunt, the wit behind Girt. Tune in, 11-12. Or slurp ABC’s local website.
Enough hustings. Time for a game. On the weekend I spotted a two-novel volume of Nick Hornby: High Fidelity/Of A Boy. (How lovely to hear of such a loyal lad.) But what next? A Martin Amis double: Experience/The Pregnant Widow? Or Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye/The Blind Assassin.
Other combos from the one author invited. And Brit puzzle reflections – such as today’s top-notch Times – also most welcome.
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