This is Shyness

(last night I launched Leanne Hall's marvellous This is Shyness. Here are some of the things I said.)

I'll start with a joke… of sorts.

Maureen McCarthy, David Lynch and a WEREWOLF walk into a bar. Not just any bar. It's one of those deeply cool, unmistakably Melbourne bars, with absolutely no signage out front. One of those bars that's down two different alleyways, behind some bins, at the bottom of a dirty flight of stairs. Inside the bar it's all moody and mysterious, with dimly lit alcoves ...