Curators and the Curious

In my twitterly investigations, I am frequently flummoxed by the words following and followers.  Mr Twitter himself is unable to enlighten me on this subject, perhaps because he is too busy serving coffee to all his other customers.  Have you been able to gain an insight into...

...his reasoning, dear reader?

As a person with far greater experience of the world than you probably have yourself, I am rather uncomfortable about being followed around, although it is a well-known occupational hazard in my esteemed profession.  I like to see myself as a curator when it comes to gathering quality curiosities for the intellectual and aesthetic enlightenment and delight of students, trainees, mentees, internees, friends, patrons, colleagues, acquaintances, relatives, peers, philanthropists and ordinary mortals, including politicians and musicians and assorted guests.  Do you see yourself as a personage in one or more of these curious categories?

I, of course, especially enjoy compiling several twitterly and facebookian lists of other enlightened curatorial beings, as you may already be aware.  Curatorial persons indirectly inspire my creativity and curiosity from time to time.  Perhaps you experience similar creative insights from your well-informed digital and ethereal encounters.  How do you inform and accumulate your own creative repertoire?  Are you a curator yourself.

Perhaps curiosity without productivity a rather a futile pursuit.  Curatorial investments are essentially creative expressions of curiosity themselves, but are they productive?  You may know that my own productivity has somewhat the same purpose as Australia's Productivity Commission, namely to help governments make better policies in the long term interest of the Australian community.  However, I frequently extend my duties to the global scale.

The scale of my work is continually expanding in the ethereal and digital spheres.  In view of this, I am constantly seeking the services of suitably qualified, creative, curious and experienced assistant curators, assistant editors, assistant producers, assistant parlour maids, assistant legal advisers, assistant musical advisers, assistant political advisers, assistant financial advisers and assistant technical advisers.

Unfortunately, the usual candidates for most of these positions either mistake the word insistent for assistant, or they ignore the word assistant completely when describing themselves by their allocated job title.  They are frequently the sorts of persons who forget to switch off their mobile telephones at suitable moments, and who use vulgar expressions inappropriately.  They also believe that everything occurring in their minds should become public knowledge through their twitterly and facebookian engagements, and they frequently think productivity is the same thing as money.  Perhaps you have encountered some of these persons yourself, dear reader.

I am able to be a blog-pamphleteer of some renown mainly because my own productivity is at the highest possible level.  I am able to engage with you here as a leisurely pursuit due to the efficiency I have managed to create and curate within my little Adelaidean villa, and in the wider world.  This is unlike my irritating acquaintance, and would-be assistant, Kate the Great, who does not know that despotism and enlightenment are as incompatible as democracy and insistence.  Perhaps Kate believes everything historians and others have written in which she is briefly mentioned, except within my own literary works of course:


Article One  |  Article Two  |  Article Three  |  Article Four

Article Five  |  Article Six  |  Article Seven  |  Article Eight


Kate even believes herself to be the focus of attention in articles in which someone of a similar name is mentioned.  She frequently forgets that her maiden name was Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg and not Catherine Middleton.  Are you familiar with the beliefs and behaviour of Kate the Great?

This Kate loves rubles and rubies but not rebellions

There are many unreasonable persons who believe they should have a significant amount of influence and privilege just because of their financial standing and social contacts.  I do hope you are not one of them, dear reader.  Would you like to be one of my assistants?