The Marrickville Mattress Poet put in an appearance as part of the Marrickville Open Studio Trail on the weekend. This homage to Magritte was part of the Fairy Alley exhibition.
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Reading & watching- The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank 2020) 28 October 2020An orphaned girl is a natuaral genius at chess, and as the poster indicates develops a hie problem with drugs and alcohol.
- On Earth we're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong 2019) 27 October 2020From the Book Club.
- Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa 2019) 25 October 2020A brilliant Polish movie starring Bartosz Belienia as a young man released from juvenile detention who through a combination of desire and accident finds himself acting as parish priest in a village, and winning the respect of the parishioners. It turns out he's a Christ figure, though no resurrection in sight.
- SBS On Demand: Spooks Season 9 (David Wolstoncroft 2010) 23 October 2020We thought we'd seen all of Spooks years ago, and that these were new episodes. They are a decade old, it turns out, and maybe a little tired, but still fun. Take home message: trust no one.
- The Coal Curse (Judith Brett 2020) 20 October 2020Quarterly Essay Nº 78, subtitled 'Resources, climate and Australia's future,' and written before Covid–19 took most of the oxygen out of conversation about the climate.
- The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank 2020) 28 October 2020
