Andy Warhol at Brisbane's GOMA

If you have a chance to visit Brisbane before March 30th go see the Warhol exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art. Quite an amazing collection of his works and works about him. Well worth the visit!

Who gets top billing? Truth in Advertising?

'Nuff said!

Wild Whitsunday weather

How lucky were we to see a waterspout off Hamilton Island while we were there. But imagine what the people on the boat were thinking as they got closer and closer to it - does the phrase I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto sound familiar?

This one lasted a good five minutes or longer and moved from right to left over the sea. When it finally dissipated it just... disappeared.

Queensland storms

We were on Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday Island group just after the tropical rain storms were flooding coastal Queensland. The weather made for some amazing sunsets. We stayed in the 'Shorelines' apartments and had a wonderful view over the Edge pool and the sea beyond.



Another evening we went on the Sunset Sea Kayaking trip, which turned-out to be one of the highlights of our time on the island. A very nice group of people, a good guide, calm weather for paddling, and drinking a few flutes of sparkling wine while sitting in a raft of the boats was a wonderful way to enjoy nature.

Stealing body parts - life imitating art?

We just got back from a two week long vacation in Queensland, spent at Hamilton Island and Noosa. Queensland has been pretty wet due to the tropical storms but they need the rain.

To fill-in some time out of the rain I bought a Michael Crichton book called 'Next' from a Noosa book store and started reading it while the females of the family were busy contributing to the local economy. Heard later, 'so many shops, so little time...'

One aspect of the book covers the (apparently more frequent than we would guess) practice of pilfering corpses for body parts that are then sold as implants for surgical procedures. Good creepy idea - just yucky enough to make you think twice about getting that transplant you've been considering. But that's fiction, right?

Hah! Just have a squiz at this article from nineMSN: 'US surgeon to admit plundering corpses' Turns out that a US former oral surgeon has been removing some things that he shouldn't have been doing!

Perhaps the bone grabbing oral surgeon has also read 'Next'as he has been careful to use PVC pipe when replacing stolen bones, as Crichton writes in his book you can't cremate corpses with metal (for example, pipes) in them. Nice photo on the nineMSN web article of an x-ray showing the PVC pipes within the legs.

Next thing you know you'll need a permit to buy PVC piping from the hardware store! Don't you just hate it when a few baddies ruin it for the rest of us?!