[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Those trash collectors should have each received a medal and a cash bonus from a grateful nation.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

I was driving down a city back street a few years ago, and there was a group of three people each a with a plastic bag on their head sitting on the footpath. Pedestrians were wandering past. It seemed some were taking an interest in the "bagged-ones". Some of the onlookers must have thought they were druggies or something and were offering them a hand. As I was parked at the lights opposite, I noticed that the "bagged-ones" were shooing the onlookers away.

I was most perplexed by the whole spectacle, until I read a few days later about an art group who had received a government grant of several thousand dollars for a street performance to do with homelessness and urban decay for the Fringe Festival.

Good art uplifts and energizes. Poor art is a complete waste of time. The plastic bags in this "art performance" were definitely wasted on the wearers.