There are few places one can walk with a dog leash in one hand and a bag of faecal matter in the other without fear of being arrested for intending to commit lewd acts of fetishism. There are equally few places where not carrying either item is considered downright bad form. Rosser Park, at the… Read More Rosser Park Field Research Project 2005
I am in the midst of a very weird experience! Yesterday I, after much pestering from several friends, joined Facebook. And it has been a minor revolution. Yesterday morning, there was a long list of people I’ve often thought of over the years but for whatever reason had lost contact with. Almost 48 hours later… Read More Facebooking My Demons
Well aren’t we all swept up in the fervour surrounding Mr Paul Potts from Wales! Everyone saying what an amazing story it is, what a sensation he is, what a discovery by the Britain’s Got Talent team… For those who don’t know, this is his audition where everyone got all shivery and goosepimpled!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA A seriously… Read More Paul Potts – Sounds Like Small Pox
You would have done it too I reckon. If you were me, that is. Eight kids, one with Downs Syndrome, and a useless bloody arsehole for a husband. No money, no house, no food, let alone a job or future. Just one clapped out station wagon and enough money to keep the arsehole in cigarettes.… Read More For Lorraine
It used to be that the Oscars was the show, yet every year an estimated audience of one billion viewers tunes in just to watch special coverage of the Academy Awards Red Carpet star arrivals. Not the ceremony itself, just the red carpet. Why? What is it about that long stretch of cerise shag pile… Read More Oscar’s Red Carpet
“Let’s go figure out who the bad guy is, all right?”Mr Pink, Reservoir DogsBent cops, crook politicians, underhand media tactics, internal cover-ups, spin doctoring, hookers, developers, payoffs, con men and movie stars. Are we talking Queensland in the 1980’s? Well, no. But you could be forgiven for thinking so. It’s crime, Hollywood style. In the… Read More Good Cop, Bad Cop
“The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo”Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo Ever noticed how cities are full of people wearing black from head to toe? Stand in the CBD of any city from Auckland to Singapore, New York to Paris, and you’ll see thousands of people rushing around like funky… Read More City Folk
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