Poetry Salon Newcastle Writers Festival next month.

Journalism. Ever more under threat from vested interest, lobby groups, megalomaniacal billionaires, SM keyboard warriors and legions of politicians uncomfortable with fact and truth. All strength to my professional colleagues everywhere. Resistance is fair and balanced reporting.

I saw The Brutalist again yesterday. I can't remember the last time I saw a film twice at the cinema, but I found it just as brilliant, if not richer and deeper... not just a movie you go and see, but as an experience of the true power and beauty of cinema as art.

About 4.3 billion years ago, Mars may have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 450 feet deep credit: NASA

Double helix UTS night

With my daughter Ada at the screening of A Complete Unknown on Sydney Harbour. Magical night. The film itself? A near-miss.

Here’s the interview Elizabeth Farrelly did with me aired yesterday. To listen go down to The Poet and The City. eastsidefm.org/thesydneyist/

This promises to be a lively chat today with the wonderful Elizabeth Farrelly.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

This appeared on the pavement near my place overnight. Another reason to love my neighbourhood.. Redfern, baby.

The great SF classic!

Did the Viking mission accidentally destroy life on Mars before we even detected it? That would be a very human thing to do... everyoneonmars.com/2024/11/28/d...

Bette, la reine Margo in the timeless and ever dazzling All About Eve.

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same girl, same

The Ring Nebula looks like a portal - James Webb Space Telescope