John Bailey

@johnbonbailey

Melbourne arts journalist. Views my own and often not even that.

Joined June 2008
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  1. 18 hours ago

    Jumping back on this website to tell you not to pay heed to the Peter Rabbit haters. The very early close-up of PR poking a dead guy's eyeball might not be 'classic' Potter but who are we to say what she would have thought today? Poke on you crazy rabbit.

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  2. Mar 27

    This NYT profile of Gerald Murnane is just nuts. He's often considered reclusive, but it's like J. D. Salinger MC-ing a block party: "

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  3. Mar 12

    No one is busier than the people who create awards for Melbourne bakeries

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    Mar 12

    Every single part of this headline should be considered a war crime.

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    Mar 12

    Interesting how changes to tax loopholes for the rich are "class warfare", but changes to penalty rates, welfare etc aren't.

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    Mar 10

    got in a "who's on first loop" for like 8 minutes w a supermarket checker who was like "is that a meyer lemon" + I just kept saying "yes that's my lemon"

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  7. Mar 7

    A study of the folk theories humans develop to explain their social media feeds:

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    Mar 7

    exactly what a bunch of identical bears would say

    Bears repeating: Creativity that satisfies & affirms your world view is Entertainment. Creativity that challenges & disrupts your world view is Art.
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  9. Mar 7

    The Post may be newspaper porn, but when the news story the ~whole film~ is about lands on a sub-editor's desk he immediately strikes out the first sentence PHWOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARBABY

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    Mar 2

    send help

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    Mar 1

    i am absolutely losing my mind

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  12. Feb 28

    My entire life has been in one take and usually that qualifies you for an Oscar but nooooo. If I ever find out who is the President of the Oscars I tell ya, I'm telling ya.

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    Feb 27

    Today at the school I visited that was studying my book, in Melbourne's west where the African community has been so hideously denigrated, all the African diaspora students took seats in the front rows. I'm still a bit teary about it. This is why I keep writing.

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    Feb 25

    It looks like this guy just quit comedy.

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    Feb 25

    I don't love his books but I relate to Haruki Murakami a lot because we're both working within a limited frame of ideas and also we're both big pasta boys slamming our cutlery on the table while mama dishes out the spaghetti

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  16. Feb 25

    The Bulgarian, the Playlist and the Million Dollar Spotify Swindle:

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    Feb 22

    I still use a paper calendar, but people started getting so annoyed that I had to wait to check my availability and get back to them that I now take a photo of my wall calendar every morning then *pretend* I'm checking on my phone, but it's actually a photo of my wall calendar

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  18. Feb 22

    Did not expect a story on whatever happened to Brendan Fraser to be so moving (even upsetting):

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    Feb 21

    my new painting is called #1 dad

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  20. Feb 21

    Douglas Hofstadter going toe-to-toe with Google Translate is a match worth following:

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