In my recent posting about the possibility of Michael Jennings joining me at this blog with occasional cultural postings (and I don't just mean about movies by the way, although he is very good on them), I overdid the point about how he might want to close down his personal blog altogether. And as if to emphasise the point he has a posting at his personal blog today that could not really have been written for any blog but his. It rambles over too much territory, and I don't just mean Australia. I mean subject matter. He goes from water resources to … well, his title is: Water resources, Australia's north, cricket, and what precisely is the point of Adelaide, anyway? I don't read all that Michael writes by any means, but this posting I found most entertaining, partly because I just did, and partly because as a libertarian I'm interested in any politicised, important resource (which cries out to be owned, I'd say), and I'm interested in cricket.

The point about the cricket is where it is about to be played. Two test matches (i.e. internationals) are coming up in Darwin and Cairns, Darwin being a first-time test venue. (Cairns I'm not sure about.) Here's hoping Bangladesh surprise everyone and make a fight of it.

I love the idea of specialist blogs, but it is essential that pieces like this are not made unwritable. And if personal blogs are what willensure such writing whenever it springs to the minds of writers, then on with personal blogs.

There's even a charming final twist, into yet more territory:

And just as an almost unrelated point, does anyone know of any city in the world other than Darwin that is named after a great scientist? The fact that we have one in Australia strikes me as extremely cool.

What and where would blogging be without such almost unrelated points?

Maybe what I'll end up doing is gradually converting this blog and my Education Blog into group blogs, and then have Brian's Bonkers Blog or whatever, where I put whatever I like about whatever I like whenever I like, connecting anything whatever that I feel like connecting to anything else whatever that I feel like connecting it to, and screw the universe if the universe doesn't take to it.

But later, eh? For now, this version of Brian's Culture Blog is quite bonkers enough to keep me satisfied.