As I predicted when the poll was called, precious little has been said about the arts in this Queensland election campaign. Shadow Arts Minister Stuart Copeland was a late entrant with his comments that the new $100 million Gallery of Modern Art would be a white elephant. Time will tell on that, I guess, but the decision to build the gallery fits in with what a senior arts bureaucrat told me many years ago: "Governments are good on arts infrastructure but not good on art." We certainly have lots of impressive arts structures that cost a lot of money, provided by many state governments stretching back to Joh Bjelke-Petersen's (which also allowed the deomolition of many old theatres and Cloudland ballroom). We also have plenty of arts bureaucrats, both working directly for the government and for its many funded agencies. But do we have a sensible arts policy that will carry us forward?

Who do celebrities love more than anybody else? Themselves, of course. A study of 2200 celebrities by Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young of the University of Southern California found most of them were narcissists. Hollywood psychologist Jeremy Ritzlin explains: "Narcissism is really being in love with yourself. So it would be natural for narcissists to gravitate toward the spotlight, where other people will also think highly of them."

I don't know what's more disturbing: the fact that a statue of Sylvester Stallone as fictional fighter Rocky Balboa is to be placed outside Philadelphia's famed Museum of Art, or the fact that Stalllone is making another Rocky film.

Paris Hilton has been arrested on drink-driving charges. It amazes me that Hilton would do something as pedestrian as drive. Doesn't she have people to do that for her?

Temperatures certainly were rising at a symposium on climate change in Canberra this week - when the entertainment at the taxpayer-funded event turned out to be from Miss Kitka's House of Burlesque. Details from The Courier-Mail here.

This morning on 612 ABC, Spencer Howson and I spoke about arts policy and the election, and especially film funding, trains and Star Trek's 40th anniversary (read some of my Brent Spiner interview on the ie blog here). To my surprise and delight, Spencer played Star Trekkin' b y The Firm. You can watch the video here.

If you had a million dollars worth of jewellery, would you carry it around in your luggage? Lindsay Lohan did, and now somebody has stolen it - along with her asthma medication - at Heathrow Airport. Earlier, Lohan's mum denied reports the starlet was engaged to boyfriend Harry Morton and a few weeks ago, Lohan was being dissed for being unprofessional. Oh, the perils of being a celebrity.
PS: If Superman was real, would he be dating Lindsay Lohan? After all, he went out with Lois Lane, Lana Lang and Lori Lemaris. Or maybe she'd be his arch enemy, like Lex Luthor.