Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey
Today’s dispatch covers a range of ways we anchor ourselves in the moment – from morning rituals to lurid art to end-of-life conversations. Put your feet up, savour your coffee, read about them all.Did you know that the world drinks 2bn cups of coffee a day? Did you know a typical americano contains more than 100 “biologically active ingredients”? Me , I knew neither of these things.
‘I had the key to the pub’: For a long time in the 1990s, Fred Negro lived in St Kilda’s Esplanade hotel, where he could reliably be found drinking and drawing everything going on around him.After a sold-out run at the Melbourne international film festival last year, Pub is now on national release – a documentary about Fred Negro, the infamous Melbourne artist behind the street press comic of the same name.
“There are Dada-esque and surrealist elements to [Negro’s] work, there’s also mad pop art, collage and satirical elements that are worthy of Swift. But if you choose not to see that, it’s just a bunch of puerile scribbles.”“If you can’t look past the cocks and balls and tits and … see the humanity behind it, well, maybe you’re the pervert.”Ranjana Srivastava’s columns can make for sobering reading, but they generally leave me feeling optimistic.
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