Is this Australia’s most punchable face?
I don’t know Tom Waterhouse. I have never met him, been near him, or even seen him wandering down the street. Until recently, I didn’t know who he was, or what his family was (quasi) famous for. But...
View ArticleYou didn’t build it: the second in a series of personal diatribes
So today has featured further deaths in Afghanistan, more sinking boats of desperate refugees (despite new policies ‘stopping’ them), the Tassie House of Assembly passed a gay marriage bill, an...
View ArticleTroll (n): ?
First things first: I in no way endorse, condone, support, or even tolerate the kind of hateful bile that fucktards on the internet spill at those they take a perverse fascination with. The...
View ArticleDon’t let the professionals do this job
Greg Jericho will forever be, in my mind, Grog’s Gamut. If ever I meet the man, I imagine experiencing no small amount of cognitive dissonance between my image of a man with the name of Grog and the...
View ArticleThe Ice Is Melting
The ice is melting. We all know, of course, that ice melts all the time. In a drink on a summer’s day. When you defrost the old fridge that you refuse to replace. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore....
View ArticleWomen have the right to feel safe
Clementine Ford has written a terrific piece today on Daily Life outlining, in almost real-time, the kind of repugnant victim blaming that we see when a woman is attacked by a man. What makes this time...
View ArticleSucks for me, too (just not as much)
In the wake of yesterday’s post, and the discussion that has been banging around about women’s safety on our streets, there has been an outpouring on Twitter of women discussing their means of staying...
View ArticleI want to know more – please don’t tell me
God dammit. Reading the tragic news about Jill Meagher hit me a lot harder this morning than I thought it would. It feels like all of Melbourne was subconsciously holding out hope for a better outcome,...
View ArticleBIG STICKS IDIOT (with stats!)
This morning, the Hawks are favorites, at $4, for next years flag. I’m sure they’ll find that thrilling news as they look back on The One That Got Away. It seems like a recurring theme in Grand Final...
View ArticleEveryone’s a debate expert
On Thursday morning, I was not glued to ABC24, watching the US presidential debate. While I share the fascination of US politics with many of my compatriots, there is something a little obscene about...
View ArticleEveryone is wrong somehow
Goddamn it I’m kind of loathe to add to the sextrillion words already spilled vainly over That Speech last week, but I feel that there is one thing that remains unremarked upon. I’m certainly not about...
View ArticlePointing the finger
I’ve been lax on my blogfoolery of late. Every time I felt like I had a spare moment to pen something, I found myself consumed by ennui, uninspired by most of what I saw, and that which I did would...
View Article[inaudible]
There are many different angles one can come at the Jenny Macklin/Newstart/Adam Bandt/political stunt/$35-a-day/single mothers brouhaha that has fairly dominated a day and half’s worth of empty news...
View ArticleIt’s already called ‘stalker search’
Everyone seems to be losing their shit over Facebook’s announcement of its social search function (which, incidentally, would be a much nicer name than ‘Graph Search’, seeing as there are no graphs...
View ArticleDay Two - January 29th, 2013
Reblogged from The Knackery: So today's ephemera are a bad joke told by the PM's partner, a series of opportunistic photo ops from the Opposition Leader, Andrew Laming being Andrew Laming, and Twitter...
View ArticleTwitter is…
…always discussed in the singular, apparently. I refer to something I saw this morning over coffee. Being at Saturday, it would be inappropriate if there wasn’t at least one piece I read in The Age...
View Article#Nielsen
Polls. Polls polls polls polls polls polls, polls polls polls polls polls. Polls polls polls polls polls – polls polls polls Polls polls polls ‘polls polls polls polls polls polls polls polls,’ polls...
View ArticleAlbum review: The Drones – I See Seaweed
The Drones’ first album in nearly five years is a thing of dark, unsettling majesty No band so seamlessly marries the emotional, intellectual and visceral like The Drones. Even as far back as their...
View ArticleANZAC, football and political Shibboleths
Reblogged from AusVotes 2013: In the 20-odd years since ANZAC Day began its resurrective march from the near-forgotten, on-a-par-with-Armistice Day public holiday to totemic icon of nationalist...
View ArticleMartin Ferguson, giant of the resources industry
“‘The National Generators Federation would like to acknowledge the hard work and contribution that Martin Ferguson has made to the energy sector. He was an outstanding Minister who provided stability...
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