Monday 15 January
The Age
Monday January 15, 2001
11 dys until some cockroaches scramble across a map of Australia for the Australia Day Cockroach Races in Queensland. Birthday of civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King Jr. 204 years since James Hetherington, a London Haberdasher, was fined for wearing his newest creation - the top hat.
"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing ..." -- George Bernard Shaw
Five things to do today
* TENNIS: The Australian Open at the Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne Park until January 28 (Book: 132 849 or visit www.ausopen.org). Visit Club Evian for free jazz between 11.30am-2pm.
* ARTS: Vietnam Voices: Australians and the Vietnam War is exhibited in the Australia Gallery of the Melbourne Museum until April 17. Tel: 8341 7777.
* BLOOD: The Australian Red Cross Blood Service asks you to bring a mate when you next donate. Do it today at Hawthorn and Croydon or the Bourke Street, Northern or Southbank Donor Centres. Tel: 131 495.
* FILM: Splodge (``unusual films of discernment" screened on the first and third Monday of the month) features short films from 9pm at 715 Nicholson Street (corner Scotchmer Street), North Fitzroy.
* MUSIC: Expressions of interest by Australian composers who'd like to have their new work assisted by the Ian Potter Music Commissions Program are open until Friday. Telephone: 9650 3188.
My Life
Fifteen minutes of fame
David Cusack, 22, Dublin
My girlfriend comes from Perth, so I've been over visiting for the last four months. I spent too much money at Christmas, and it's become urgent that I go work for a while. I'm going up to Echuca today to pick fruit for a week or two. Some friends from Sydney should be coming down, so we're going to hang around, catch the Grand Prix and drink some beers for St Paddy's Day before I head back to Perth. I came to Melbourne on the Indian Pacific, which was an interesting ride. But it took forever. We got delayed at the start because a bushfire had burnt away some of the track. Things were all right until all the lights went out. It turned out that the engine had died on us.
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