“I’m not a fighter,” confesses Pamela Bone, referring to the myeloma that’s depleted her strength in recent years. “If anything I’m a pacifist.”
Bone, the ex-Age columnist and astute social critic, resents all the war-tropes attached to cancer. Patients must FIGHT, she lists. The disease is BATTLE. Cells are BOMBARDED with MAGIC BULLETS. The story is [...]
The Writers Festival has hit Melbourne, 10 days of quality gas-bagging and flyleaf signing. I managed to catch Desmond O’Grady, a profiler nonpareil when it comes to literary names of the twenties.
What other journo has hunted down Tennessee Williams, Jorge Luis Borges, Rebecca West and Polish Nobelist Czeslaw Milosz? Not to mention all but earning [...]
Mazel tov. Unbeatable. Sublime.
Every year, without fail, the general e-public will astound this blogger with the leftest-field lexicon, each term a successful keyword to open up this site.
If any of these perversities were created by your own hand, I salute you. And wonder if this blog offered you the solace your rabid search was craving. [...]
Here are the weirder of the weird keyword phrases to lead you honest pilgrims to this site over the past calendar year. Can’t tell you how – I just report these mysteries as captured on the server.
So here are the silver medalists in the year’s Google pageant, kinky keywords 20-11 in the year’s more esoteric [...]
Every year, to mark this blog’s anniversary, I host the Google Medals. While there’s no hard cash or ceremonial bling on offer, the kudos is immense. Candidates are those words, terms and/or perverse combinations that have led to web-surfers stumbling on this site.
Don’t ask me how “spell banjoes” signposted Cassowary Crossing, but it did. So [...]
Just supply your gut response to the ten scenarios below, each one cropped from Richard Wiseman’s fascinating book – The Luck Factor (Arrow Books, 2004).
Because luck you’ll discover is as much attitude as a bouncing roulette ball. The mystic power, asserts Professor Wiseman, is less mystic as a cocktail of confidence, optimism and resilience, with [...]
Nearly a year ago, I heard about a guy called Tony. A Scottish animator. Late 20s. He took a working holiday in Hong Kong to create cute goblins for Asian TV.
Gig done, he flew into Oz to catch up with an old schoolmate, a brief stopover on his way home to Aberdeen. And that’s when [...]
Mary had a little lamb
Her father shot it dead
Now Mary takes her lamb to school
Between two chunks of bread.
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Cinderella dressed in yella
Went downstairs to meet her fella.
On the way down her panties busted.
How many people were disgusted?
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Kids are masters of naughty rhymes. From eeny-meeny-miney to this sailor bloke going to sea-sea-sea, the playgrounds of the [...]