http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/ Amy Cooper is the Sun-Herald's chief party correspondent. She puts Sydney's social habits under the microscope. en Copyright 2008 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:55:01 +1000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I'm enjoying the non-stop party that's Queenstown Festival at the moment and so, it seems, are representatives of just about every country on the globe. It's a glorious mix of languages and faces. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/06/pretending_not.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/06/pretending_not.html Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:55:01 +1000 I was one of the thousands who flocked to the Dalai Lama's teachings at Olympic Park this week to enjoy the uplifting atmosphere that always surrounds the Tibetan leader. But even his feelgood effect couldn't obscure the increasing urgency of his people's crisis. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/06/i_was_one_of_th.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/06/i_was_one_of_th.html Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:02:25 +1000 My beauty salon buddy is a straight male friend. We go for all kinds of treatments together and I don't consider this in any way odd. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/05/beautys_a_sad_b.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/05/beautys_a_sad_b.html Sat, 31 May 2008 23:10:38 +1000 Sorry to rain on your meringue, but it seems to me that weddings always end badly, whether sooner or later. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/05/six_wedding_sta.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/05/six_wedding_sta.html Mon, 19 May 2008 00:14:53 +1000 On Mothers' Day, spare a thought for the women who bring dictators, psychopaths and serial killers into the world. Not only do they miss out on the flowers and soppy cards - they're blamed for their bad seeds' misdeeds, too. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/05/on_mothers_day.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/05/on_mothers_day.html Sat, 10 May 2008 23:31:55 +1000 It gives me absolutely no pleasure to say I told you so after on Thursday we received a frightening glimpse of the Chinese bullying and nationalism that I had predicted was about to be unleashed here. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/04/it_gives_me_abs.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/04/it_gives_me_abs.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:38:56 +1000 As the tour de farce of the 2008 Olympic torch relay approaches our shores, it's become hard to see it symbolising anything but the ugly face of a world gone mad. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/04/australia_must.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/04/australia_must.html Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:04:19 +1000 I'm bemused about all the fuss from parents over Clover Moore's proposals to fence off children's playgrounds in off-leash dog parks. I wish there were more fenced off parks for both kids and my dog. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/04/if_only_we_coul.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/04/if_only_we_coul.html Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:10:22 +1000 In the week since I last wrote about the crisis in Tibet, events in the region have delivered both hope and despair to those who long for a peaceful solution. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/03/in_the_week_sin.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/03/in_the_week_sin.html Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:46:17 +1000 Last time I returned to the UK, a customs official nodded at my British passport and said: "welcome home, ma'am." I felt a little warm and fuzzy then gave it no further thought, because in the free world those of us living away from our birth countries take for granted our right to go home whenever we want. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/03/last_time_i_ret.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/03/last_time_i_ret.html Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:26:53 +1000 While waiting for a taxi to take me and my dog from Avalon to the Eastern suburbs I wondered, not for the first time, if I should learn to drive. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/03/why_i_have_no_d.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/03/why_i_have_no_d.html Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:19:25 +1000 this news story about late developing tipplers has me pondering the subject even more.]]> http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/03/why_we_should_a.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/03/why_we_should_a.html Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:35:16 +1000 This Friday, the 29th of February, is the once-every-four-years day on which women traditionally have been allowed to propose marriage to their tardy men. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/02/why_we_girls_ar.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/02/why_we_girls_ar.html Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:39:46 +1000 Meet My Friend, a social networking website on which people recommend their single friends to other singles. Great idea.]]> http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/02/thats_what_frie.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/02/thats_what_frie.html Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:50:38 +1000 As I watched the erotic and gripping but ultimately depressing movie Lust, Caution last night, I was reminded again why I believe Valentine's Day should be replaced with International Heartbreak Day. http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/02/scrap_v_day_let.html http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/amycooper/archives/2008/02/scrap_v_day_let.html Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:01:59 +1000