Hit a phonetic wall this morning.
Bitten by a puzzle idea, I’ve spent the last while converting people like Harry Kewell and Kelly Slater into hair-reek-yule and care-lease-later respectively.
Some names, like songwriter Joe Camilleri, are ripe for the mangling. I mean joke-camel-leery almost sounds like a Page 3 headline.
But most other names defy the treatment. (Men [...]
Here’s a teaser extract from the fine spoof-meisters at The Onion. To read more of this literal larceny, and many other exquisite piss-takes, click on the link below this post:
‘Wheel Of Fortune’ Contestants Hit Hard As Vowel Prices Skyrocket’
LOS ANGELES””Contestants on the television game show Wheel Of Fortune have been hit especially hard at the [...]
Crossword making is an art, though a New York artist called Emily Jo Cureton is taking the whole art idea to heart. Check out her website http://www.emilyjocureton.com/follies/index.html and you’ll see how two or three words from the paper’s daily grid will see her pencil out-Magritte Magritte. Possibly the most contrary illustration of the phrase: thinking [...]
A privileged part of my working week is reading and reviewing books for Radio National. Not that every title to lob in the letterbox is a must-read – some in fact may verge on clunker – but a recent one – My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru is a standout. And standouts, I discovered, can be [...]