Orange Juice & Ryvita

Food, politics, underemployment and the consumption of time and leisure

Author Liam Hogan

  • Locations

    TWITTER HAS BEEN BOUGHT, and will become, presumably, Elonian, meaning heroic, disorganised, and centred on the self-image of its owner above any function. As it, and other highly-centralised social media ‘places’ appear to be at inflection points of utility, perhaps we can find other smaller and disaggregated places to be.

    I post at aus.social, put pictures up at flickr, and at instagram (though rarely). And I aim to blog here more frequently…

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  • Foo

    I WORK IN NEWTOWN, in Sydney’s inner west. It’s a centre for graffiti and street art, which range from well-executed commissioned murals, to tags, to stickers; they’re artistic, political, commercial, pornographic, and everything in between. And occasionally they’re culturally significant:

    Stickers on a pole. One reads ESKY WAS HERE and the other is a picture of a cartoon person peering over a brick wall
    Foo was here

    This is ‘Foo’ or Kilroy, who is definitely more than 80 years old, and possibly dates to the First World War.

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  • Time Honoured Disguise And Borrowed Language

    THE TRADITION OF ALL dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language.

    —-Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 1852

    The monument to Lenin that was installed in occupied Henichesk, Kherson Oblast, yesterday.
    The photo was published by local collaborator Hennadiy Maliukov.

    A statue of Lenin made of croncrete in front of a brick building flying Russian and Soviet flags
    The old man’s back again

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  • Try It For A Change

    MODERN WAR, IN ITS present shape, calls for the sort of initiative that arises from democracy. That is, I believe, the principal meaning of this book...

    ---Tom Wintringham, 'English Captain', 1939

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  • Building classes

    THE BUILDING CODE OF Australia categorises all buildings into one of ten classes. The buildings mentioned in Ike and Tina Turner’s Nutbush City Limits can be allocated the following categorisations:

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  • Light fittings

    I CALL THIS UGLY object the ‘NATO Standard NSW Investment Property light fitting’, and once you start looking you’ll see the prick everywhere. It’s been in every house I’ve ever rented. I hate it and everything it represents.

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  • Catallaxy

    CATALLAXY FILES, THE AUSTRALIAN right-wing blog that was central to the local mid-2000s early-2010s blogging culture, and Larvatus Prodeo’s counterpart across ideology, has closed. Its domain points to its own archive held by the Commonwealth.

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  • Joh

    AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY IN THE present moment fulfils all of Joh Bjelke-Petersen's promises to the future. Joh, Premier of Queensland 1968–1987 presided over a State with all the qualities Australia enjoys today: it was parochial, violent, hypocritical, complacent, as crooked as a broken finger, as racist as the day is long. Since he failed to become Prime Minister, we have no sense of how Joh would have treated the border, but we can infer his probable attitudes from today's current affairs, a strongman Fortress Australia that looks inward, punishing the vulnerable, wondering why anyone would want to leave.

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  • Cardboard record player

    THE SIMPLE CARDTALK RECORD player was developed to play phonograph records without electricity.

    (In the spirit of the web log I am going to post more things that I read)

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  • Rain

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