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Patience

More than a year ago, I signed up for a radio announcer’s course at the local station. Notice that I said ’signed up’, as the course was never finished. As a class we completed three or four weeks of classroom theory and were sent our separate ways to pitch for a show and request panel [...]

Cameo role

I’m tired to the shithouse and can’t put a sentence together without either falling asleep or forgetting what I’m talking about, so here, have a film review by my niece. She is a teenager and I can understand about a third of what she’s saying.
omg.. i went and saw Harry potter on the weekend.. [...]

Gifted

Last week I received an invitation to contribute to a celebrity gift bag.

WOW! Creations will be providing the Official Gift Bags for the upcoming TBS Very Funny Comedy Festival in Chicago from June 17th through June 20th. www.justforlaughschicago.com
WOW! Creations has been invited back for the second time to provide our Luxury Gift Bags [...]

Caribbean queen

Growing up in this part of the world, the occasional Sunday family things to do were go to the Frankston trash’n’treasure, head off to a day at Leisureland on the outskirts of Frankston or perhaps go to the Caribbean Gardens somewhere out in the far eastern suburbs (it’s like Paddy’s Market in Sydney or any [...]

Quadrant magazine will sell out today

Hitting the news wires last night was a story that the current issue of Quadrant magazine featured a fictionalised article about genetic engineering written by an aliased wag or wags.
The angle of the news story has changed this morning that the exercise has been a big egg-in-your-face case of revenge against editor, historian Keith Windschuttle, [...]

Come back later, too busy with my new mentors

With more than a million hits and hundreds of comments on every post, I’m last in line to know about Margaret and Helen and the whacky cross-section of society who post comments on their blog.
Thanks, Foodycat, I found them when clicking through your site!
I want to be them when I get older. Ah, bugger it, [...]

Aural trauma

I have some questions:

Why do I get a migraine the day before a Christmas party?

Why does someone at the Christmas party bring a laptop computer, karaoke box and two gigantic PA-quality speakers on day two of my migraine?

Who the hell carries that sort of gear in his car? Mr Kara-fucking-oke?

Why does the loudest and worst [...]

Santa’s coming

If you have young children looking over your shoulder, or still believe in Santa Claus, close the screen. Please.
A few taxi owners and drivers populate my family tree and one told an early Christmas story that has warmed the cockles of my hardened heart.
The taxi driver passed a pub where a Christmas party was behind [...]