There’s a particular event this time of year that allows the opportunity to spread my particular brand of quirkiness/insanity/instability/bizarre behaviour/genius [circle each applicable -- multiple choices are allowed].
I’ve subscribed to public radio stations for a long time but some years ago thought hey, the cats and dogs listen to far much more radio than I [...]
After however long I’ve been getting cranky here, I realised I’ve never posted a video. I just couldn’t find the right one to break into 21st-century blogging.
Finally, the best video ever appeared on the news channels, which happened to teach me that I can’t embed videos here for love nor money nor swearing a [...]
Just a quick one as I have a brain-freezing writer’s block and shooting pains across my foot and can’t stop whinging, but I wonder who at The Age gives politicians their identifying prefixes for news stories. Bill Shorten must’ve paid a few dollars for this beauty:
Labor factional warlord Bill Shorten has admitted he [...]
I need to throw one out there and ask for recommendations for online news services because I swear I’m getting more ignorant by the day.
I used to have The Age’s online news site flashed up, but today’s lead stories are something about a soccer game, the crying woman who finally got booted from Masterchef, a [...]
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, [...]
I’m a bit behind on who’s doing whom in celebrityland and I tend to avoid casting judgement when I know less than one side of a story, but Kathy Lette is rather less conservative.
With the whole Ramsayshag-Gate saga still selling newspapers, the author has decided to lend a hand to the family in crisis. [...]
The people at Fairfax respect Layne Beachley almost as much as I do, and have given her blog space to write about motivation, health and success. Here’s the intro blurb:
Regarded as history’s best female surfer, Layne Beachley is a seven-time world champion. But her drive doesn’t stop at the water’s edge. She’s had success with her [...]
