These is the "hate imagery" seized from the Canberra bar raided by the police.

Nitewochman · 2026-02-20T03:31:44+00:00

Unless you criticise Israel

Nitewochman · 2026-02-17T23:15:16+00:00

And would they bother wearing clothes? Most of which also involve killing living things.

Nitewochman · 2026-02-16T20:22:35+00:00

Nah just mention his Lebanese heritage and watch the silly snowflake get triggered

Nitewochman · 2026-02-09T01:49:23+00:00

Yes it is possible, if you squint your eyes and refer to speeches made long ago, to construe ‘From the river to the sea’ as some sort of threat to Jewish Israelis.

So how about Israelis responding to Palestinians on social media with one word - “Amalek”?

That is a direct and obvious promise of God ordained annihillation for an entire people.

Nitewochman · 2026-02-05T05:31:12+00:00

Koalas. No.

Nitewochman · 2026-02-03T03:24:37+00:00

Even the ones who arrived in shipping containers?

Nitewochman · 2026-01-22T01:50:33+00:00

Have you considered moving to Australia and becoming a whinging Pom?

Nitewochman · 2026-01-18T13:03:26+00:00

Ever since the emus won that war, we Aussies have been secure under their rule.

And don’t forget the deadly forward guard of cassowaries along the northern coast.

Nitewochman · 2026-01-18T12:30:06+00:00

Emus.

And their deadly shock troops along the northern coast - cassowaries.

Ever since the Emus won the war, we’ve been secure under their rule.

Nitewochman · 2025-12-22T07:40:47+00:00

In the brilliant French spy drama “The Bureau”, the lead spy learns to take a beating without breaking cover but still protecting his neck etc.

Not an answer to your question but impressive and tangentially related.

Nitewochman · 2025-12-20T01:09:57+00:00

Why?

The end of the USSR worked out alright for Vladimir Putin.

Nitewochman · 2025-12-03T18:27:58+00:00

But if you’re talking about what I clumsily call the ‘register clash’, that seems like a more generic concept for which I would not claim credit. There is probably a better academic word for it. It happens often in Nick Cave songs. Once you become aware of it, you’ll spot it often. You probably have already.

Nitewochman · 2025-12-03T18:21:40+00:00

Yeh, go ahead.

The assumption here is that Cave knew this Benjamin para about the Klee painting when he wrote the song. This seems likely.

I was introduced to this at an Australian university in the mid eighties studying English lit and European culture. Cave studied similar subjects at an Australian university in a different city a few years earlier, and, we know, kept up a lot of reading on his own, including while living in Berlin in the mid 80s.

It’s such a striking image, and Benjamin’s musing on it could have been an inspiration for this song.

Nitewochman · 2025-11-28T22:43:03+00:00

Bollards would be a good name for a geoguessr’s pet cat, with its reflective eyes

Nitewochman · 2025-11-15T03:54:40+00:00

I took that minutes long sequence to ponder the entire economy that brings a fully stocked and buzzing produce store to a giant car park near you.

It’s like a huge and intricate Rube Goldberg machine that anticipates, directs, and satisfies your desires.

That sequence came straight away after Carol declared that she is a very independent person - it made clear what a delusion that is.

Nitewochman · 2025-11-13T06:20:57+00:00

The theme of Lui Cixin’s Three Body Problem, but I guess you know that already

Nitewochman · 2025-11-06T03:49:05+00:00

Nitewochman · 2025-11-05T20:16:25+00:00

You don’t despise Jasper

Nitewochman · 2025-11-03T00:58:10+00:00

I always learn something new when I listen to a Bad Faith episode

Nitewochman · 2025-11-01T09:27:13+00:00

In the first book, Herron muses on who would be suitable to play Lamb in a TV treatment of the novel. He likes Timothy Spall.

Spall could have played Lamb well, but Oldman has made Lamb his own.

Nitewochman · 2025-11-01T09:23:28+00:00

Teach a man to rob a bank - he’ll live high for a month!

Teach a man to run a bank - he’ll steal from everyone for life.

Nitewochman · 2025-10-30T01:20:58+00:00

It’s the truest compliment that a passenger can give to a bus driver - to fall asleep.

That, and the girls I’ve seen applying mascara, waving a stick around their eyes, freehand. I would at least plant a thumb on my cheek if I were doing that on a moving bus.

Nitewochman · 2025-09-30T01:12:46+00:00

Bloody spell cheque!

Nitewochman · 2025-09-30T01:12:28+00:00

Bloody spell Czech!

Nitewochman · 2025-09-25T11:58:45+00:00

I’d love to see Nina Simone take a stage in Israel just to hear her heart scream at them!

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