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Why do people keep opening shops that are so very tempting in Fitzroy? So many beautiful books… and not enough time for reading. The Searchers has been around for quite a while now and I hope they continue to survive.
On 28 August 2008 I went to the opening night of the Sneaky 6 exhibition of work by Santha King and various street artists at Gorker gallery. The works are handmade shoes featuring unique designs and they are absolutely beautiful! The exhibition is on until 14 September.
I missed the news of the opening of the First Look gallery on St George’s Rd in North Fitzroy, and so missed the opening party. When I caught up, I dropped in on a Saturday morning and chatted briefly with owner Bret about the gallery, which features the work of Indigenous artists from the obscure to the famous.
We live in a society that is soft on violent crime. We excuse aggressive behaviour and do not allow people to adequately protect themselves, their families and their property from assault without fear of being prosecuted for their defensive response.
In a recent case a Sydney man used a whip to defend his property, his family and party guests from violent gatecrashers. He has been warned that he may be charged with the use of excessive force in defending himself. This is nonsense. There should be no such thing as a charge of excessive force for self defence. The right to defend yourself, your family and your property from within the boundaries of your property should be absolute.
The gatecrashers trespassed on the man’s property, damaged his property, then acted as a group to assault him. Only then did he use a weapon (a whip) to defend himself and drive them from his property. If you break the law by trespassing on someone’s property, refuse a request to leave, then attack the property and its owner, you should lose all legal rights.
The property owner should be able to defend themselves however they can. The property owner should be free to act as necessary to make themselves safe, to beat, stab, shoot or attack an intruder with an axe or whatever they can get their hands on to defend themselves. I would give this homeowner a bravery medal.
There is no ethical right to violate the safety and rights of others and yet have your own safety and rights respected. What would Keith Richards or Andrew Symonds do? If there’s nutters on your turf you need to chop them down. Criminal thugs need to understand the consequences of their actions.
In a related case in Perth a man who ignored security and danger signs and illegally trespassed on a power utility’s fenced and secured property is suing the company after being electrocuted on the property and losing both his legs. He got what he deserved.
So did the Sydney thugs. I wish they had been permanently crippled by the homeowner. They should then be denied access to government funded health and welfare services because they obtained their injuries while committing a crime. The should live in pain and poverty and hopefully die young. They are parasites and a blight on society.
A recent paste up on the former cable car building on the corner of Brunswick St and Victoria Parade. A cross between Ziggy Stardust and Adam Ant. Not sure if youre a boy or a girl…
There’s at least two more copies on other walls in Fitzroy.
In January 2007 I signed up with Australian electronic program guide (EPG) provider icetv.com.au based on a recommendation from a friend and bought an Elgato EyeTV HD DTT USB stick tuner from them so I could watch HD TV via my MacBook Pro.
It worked perfectly until August 2008, when it suddenly failed, and I received the error message “Device could not be initiailized.” Thinking it was a random error, I waited a couple of days for it to fix itself. It didn’t.
I entered a support email into icetv’s website and did the same with product manufacturer Elgato. I was in touch with icetv quite quickly, whereas Elgato took a whole week to respond to me. By that time I had the situation mostly resolved.
