Camila (eyeing off Laranjinha): Who’s that?
Alessandra: What are you, eyeing off kids from the favelas now?
Camila (rolling her eyes): Shock, horror!
Alessandra: What will your father think?
Camila: He’ll love it. He’s an anthropologist.
A certain friend of mine suggested a blog post about ‘names I can never call my children due to bad associations’. This friend also noted that these are her chosen child names:
CDP (of course this stands for Carla Del Ponte) or Jennycide if it’s a girl
Archbishopdesmondtutu or Bishopmuzorewa if it’s a boy
Dammitneilthenamesnewanda if it’s the third gender.
My chosen child names:
Julienne-Burnside or Ms Fits if it’s a girl
Julian-Burnside, Ted Theodore Logan or Bill S Preston Esq if it’s a boy
Julian/ne-Burn’Syde or The Love Symbol if it’s the third gender.
Obviously.
As for names which are off the list for ‘eternal return’ reasons:
John, Winston and/or Howard
Lazarou
Benedict
Jon-Benet
Special Patrol Group
Hi! My name’s Baz! And me and my mates thought that TV just wasn’t now! Right? I expect, like us, you’re not into all that stuff your “old man’s” into! Right! So! We just thought we’d have a program for us! Right! And this is it! Nozin’ Around! Yeah, N-O-Zed! Zed for Zap! It’s a program for young adults, made by young adults, and concentratin’ on all the subjects that young adults are into!
2. Butt Out!
Remember kids, if you smoke, you could grow up to be a failure! Or worse, you could grow up to be dead! Yeah! Butt Out!
3. Father Noel Furlong and the St Luke’s Youth Group:
The youth group eventually runs off to Paraguay to escape him. NB: This episode has not stopped at least two youth workers that I know of persisting in wearing this exact same jumper.With stonewash jeans.
4. Legz Akimbo Theatre Company:
“Everybody Out!”,a play about sexuality (following the success of “White Chocolate”, a play about racism). For all those boys who ever wondered “why they preferred books and dolls”, and who long to escape the punishing gavel of Judge Society.
PhDs are every bit as interminable as they say, but not worth losing it over.
I must remember to eat.
I must also remember that, despite popular culture, hermits are not all that glam. And they don’t have any friends, which would preclude me from many fun times at Shotz.
It’s a happy day for people power! There is something so very heartening about the fact that the PM has pulled the bill to amend the Migration Act, which - along with other human rights abuses - would have made it effectively impossible for refugees arriving by boat to recieve asylum in Australia, subjecting them to a potentially indefinite detention on the remote, impoverished island republic of Nauru. There were enough people with enough heart and enough foresight to see that the bill was just more cruel and cynical electioneering from John “draconian” Howard and his hard-right cronies.
CHIEF OF ARMY’S HISTORY CONFERENCE
The topic in 2006 will be ‘Small Wars & Insurgencies’
The conference theme is small wars and insurgencies, and as in past years will draw on a range of speakers from Australia and overseas, in this case from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada and South Africa. There will be several themed panels at this year’s conference, dealing with the problems of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Ireland from both the Irish and British perspectives; southern Africa, with case studies of Rhodesia, South Africa and the Portuguese colonial experience; and Iraq, both in the interwar period and more recently.Other papers will deal with topics such as British counter-insurgency in the postwar Palestine mandate, and the challenge of stabilisation, reconstruction and nation-building operations in the post-Cold War environment.
From now on, whenever anyone asks me what my thesis is about, I will just direct them here:
‘In a very central part of the city (Laranjeiras/Santa Teresa), inside Rio’s most beautiful and tranquil favela, the unique Hostel “Favelinha” welcomes travelers from around the world. It gives backpackers and other interested tourists the opportunity to discover what life is like for a great majority of Rio’s inhabitants. You will be amazed at how friendly you will be welcomed by the people in the favela and you will not believe your eyes when you step out on your balcony and start to overlook the bay of Guanabara, the sugar loaf and some of Rio’s famous beaches like Botafogo and Flamengo.’
…
‘There is a small bus departing directly in front of the church during the entire day until 10 p.m. - it leaves approximately every 10 minutes and costs R$ 1,50. It takes only five minutes with this bus to the top of the dead end street which is the beginning of the favela. Just stay in the bus until it turns at the top of a little hill at the end of a dead end street.’
…
‘Tour 1: Rio’s Main Attractions
We leave the hotel and have a look around the Favela Pereira da Silva, including the “morrinho” project (miniature favelas built by the youth of the favela out of brick stones).’
(from ‘Pousada Favelinha’ at http://www.favelinha.com/en).
‘… the record that is about to begin is written under the sponsorship of the most popular soft drink in the world even though it does not earn me anything; a soft drink that is distributed throughout the world. It is the same soft drink that sponsored the recent earthquake in Guatemala. Despite the fact that it tastes of nail polish, toilet soap and chewed plastic. None of this prevents people from loving it with servility and subservience. Also because … this drink which contains coca is today. It allows people to be modern and move with the times.’
– A Hora da Estrela, Clarice Lispector (trans. Giovanni Ponteiro) 1986: 23.
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