17 February

Each to their own. K.D. Lang getting a lot of praise for her performance at the relief concert. I found it overwrought, prostrate on the ground at times wailing like somebody giving birth, with little art in the singing and dressed like a druid. Like Helen Lovejoy with haemorrhoids. Maybe apt given the occasion, the entire bushfire crisis has been a wallowing in emotion since the day the fires started. We love that emotional wallowing stuff, it’s easier than thinking.