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Category Archives: australia

this is catherine whiting

a story is doing the rounds of the internets about an 80 year old man in new york who has been calling his late wife’s answering service every day since she died in 2005 just to hear her voice. unfortunately the phone company deleted the message and the old man was heartbroken. tough shit said [...]

the end of daylight saving

letter to the editor
I love clocks, in fact I have 17 of them. But what a bore, having to get up at 2am to put them all back an hour. I mean, couldn’t they let us put them back at 10pm as we go to bed.
- Doug Jacques,
Nambucca Heads.
ha ha ha … doug : you [...]

middle-aged man claims to have been moved to tears

here is one for your fuck off pocket :
They had made fleeting eye contact and then she disappeared. It was visceral, inexplicable, something beyond words. Little wonder the romantics were quivering.
what a load of bollix. she didn’t even notice him. but it certainly seems that it was beyond words if the quality of the writing [...]

don’t look back

oh great! sonic youth performing daydream nation in its entirety at the metro as part of the don’t look back series on the same night that pj harvey plays melbourne’s hamer hall on her australian tour. that’s sensible planning. don’t concert promoters talk to each other?

but polly jean will win. why? because she is [...]

the battle for the wooden spoon

as i am currently writing elsewhere football allows me to take pleasure in loss, but all good things must come to an end or so they say, and so next week brings the last games of the footy season, that is for those of us who support losers that don’t figure in [...]

eat shit john howard

for some reason the kevin07 website stimulates my funny bone … maybe it is just the slickness of the campaign, so unusual for boring old aussie elections … they generally still think “it’s time.” is pretty cutting edge. and this is more like well think magnum … big kev … big mac, but who cares? [...]

last thoughts on ashfield

last thoughts on ashfield : you’ve got ashfield, belfield, enfield, and strathfield – so what happened to canterfield?
future ashfield artists in residence looking for peace and quiet please note : when it’s not raining pratten park is a hive of activities morning noon and night : tennis, soccer training and matches and during the holidays [...]

free films at the art gallery of new south wales

i like to go to events which are free, especially when its gratis status has not come about through sponsorship by a large multinational company. although often as not it is as much of a waste of time as an event where you do have to pay, at least i have only wasted time and [...]

sydney film festival

a mouthwatering line up at the sydney film festival next month – unfortunately (or fortunately!) i am (only) going to be there for the last weekend. is the glass half empty or half full? well, i am going to miss a swag of goodies including david lynch’s inland empire which i also missed in new [...]

oranje (um…) boven?

more than one aussie has been ribbing me this week following the loss of the netherlandic team of cricket minnows by 229 runs in their world cup match against australia – since then the event has become completely overshadowed by the murder of the pakistan coach following their loss against ireland – and no one [...]