Meme USA

Well crafted report by ABC Peter Marsh about the latest US Right Wing in-joke: 

In early October, at a NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, Brandon Brown had won his first Xfinity Series and was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter.

The crowd behind the 28-year-old was chanting something at first difficult to make out. 

The reporter suggested they were chanting "Let's go, Brandon" to cheer the driver. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: "F--- Joe Biden." Here's the clip...fair warning for some coarse language, obviously.

The clip took off online, and the "Let's Go Brandon" meme was born.

NASCAR and NBC have since taken steps to limit "ambient crowd noise" during interviews.

Now it is sweeping through the US and even set to music

For a linguist’s eye view of its place in the the progress of English and how it is being politically countered by the left, see this short article in the Atlantic

Bikes

While the hotrods of the SummerNats roar only a kilometer away, Canberrans find their own quiet way

In Dad We Trust

Low Res photo from a much larger colour version. Heavy cropping made a larger photo not very pretty.

Memories are made of this

On display as part of the 1960s exhibition at the National Library in Canberra, are a few  fine examples carpenter Fred Ward's original furniture for the Library. 
A feature for anyone who used it was the anachronistic cardboard Dewey index catalogue, exquisitely boxed with brass and hardwood by Ward as well as the new-fangled Library of Congress index. His furniture subtly contributed to the building's atmosphere and launch a thousand academic papers. 

Ah, remember the slide, click and flick that went with the chore of tracking down dusty gems hiding in the Book Stack somewhere in the basement?

Max Dupain (1911–1992) photgraphed the Card Catalogue at NLA in 1968

Cafes come and go

Dickson Summer Sunday

Winter Turner

A bit spooky: early winter dusk on one of Turner's back streets. Planted in the 1940s the graceful mature trees mask a streetscape in rapid transition from overly generous blocks with undersized houses to high and medium density apartments. Fortunately, the insistance on substantial underground parking has removed much of the clutter of kerbside parking.

Detail worth noting

Graceful road overpass between National Gallery and Kings Avenue and Kings Avenue, Canberra...a work of art in its own right.

Sometimes buildings can be beautiful....

.... And you don't quite know why. This is the back of a set of units hidden behind the commercial buildings of Lonsdale Street near Canberra's Civic.