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In an attempt to be social and get into the spirit of the month, I hosted a "Mad as Mad March Hare Hatter's Tea Party", which was attended by Wesa C., Rob and Angela L., Nitul D., with Maggie S. and Erica H., joining in later on. It featured readings from m ancient and well-loved copy of "Alice in Wonderland etc", including "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party" (of course) and "The Caucus Race" (for our visiting politician). Courtesy of Erica, there was even some Alice In Wonderland-themed tea, and Nitul added to the collection with a truly excellent Tassie Devil brand. Foodstuffs by yours truly were in the style of an English tea party - savoury pikelets with salmon, sandwiches (cucumber or egg salad, with cream cheese, white bread, in thirds, no crusts of course), and Rob plied us with his Rookwood Absinthe until we were all off with the fairies. Almost needless to say, an excellent afternoon of a wide-ranging conversation, and again Angela left me slack-jawed with her ability to recite with error veritable of Shakespeare.
The Tea Party was the conclusion of a couple of other social events I had been to over the weekend; the night previous I attended a vaudeville show (cabaret, music, comedy, stunts, burlesque) at Speakeasy HQ with Liana F., which really was thoroughly entertaining. We were quite keen on seeing the burlesque, but I think the comedy won us over - both of us have reasons to need a bit of a laugh and the combinations of absurd prejudices and puns were delightful. The evening previously I briefly visited the opening night of "Radical Utopia" at the RMIT Gallery, which was about Melbourne in the 1980s - as a semi-regular visitor at the time, the idea rather intrigued me, but it was neither particularly utopian nor radical - although they did have a Sinclair Spectrum on display which, in my opinion, was radical and utopian. A computer you could carry in your pocket! In 1985 that really was quite an amazing thing to do. Who would have thought that we'd all be doing it now?
The Tea Party was the conclusion of a couple of other social events I had been to over the weekend; the night previous I attended a vaudeville show (cabaret, music, comedy, stunts, burlesque) at Speakeasy HQ with Liana F., which really was thoroughly entertaining. We were quite keen on seeing the burlesque, but I think the comedy won us over - both of us have reasons to need a bit of a laugh and the combinations of absurd prejudices and puns were delightful. The evening previously I briefly visited the opening night of "Radical Utopia" at the RMIT Gallery, which was about Melbourne in the 1980s - as a semi-regular visitor at the time, the idea rather intrigued me, but it was neither particularly utopian nor radical - although they did have a Sinclair Spectrum on display which, in my opinion, was radical and utopian. A computer you could carry in your pocket! In 1985 that really was quite an amazing thing to do. Who would have thought that we'd all be doing it now?
