So, last week we had our National Day of celebration (or invasion if you are Aboriginal) and once again we’ve had an extra long weekend of bogons running around in Southern Cross / Australian flag ins...More |
Okay, you can thank me later. I, through nothing more than a willingness to help, have saved you people an hour or so of your precious time. How you ask? Well, I have read the entire draft Regulation...More | ||
Tony Abbott is a tool of the highest order, but I find myself in a position of actual defending the little prick, and I hate it.More |
...but this time 4 will do it.More | ||
After the leadership spill last year Miranda Devine declared that “the women of the twitterverse, the ABC and Crikey.com agreed Abbott's election was a disaster”. A disaster? Maybe, but not one withou...More |
So, after nearly 30 years as a live music venue, The Tote in Collingwood, is closing its doors. The reason given by the licensee is that, after huge new licence fees have been imposed, he simply can’t...More | ||
You know those people, (usually celebrities), that you’ve never met but still hold in high regard. For my money, Bruce Willis is one. Bruce is the epitome of cool. It seems that he would be as comfort...More |
..so of course I don’t have anything else to think about. Thank God for Mia Freedman and her blog. If it wasn’t for her I would never have heard about My New Pink Button, which is a wonderful new prod...More | ||
If indeed it ever started for Metro Rail. The results for the past month are in and there is no improvement in the Connex run system. Funny that. I thought new stickers would fix everything.More |
Don't know if you've seen Sherlock Holmes yet? Not a bad flick, but the name was a little dull. Might I suggest:More |
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Christmas Day, 5am: Thundering feet in the hallway. Whoever coined the phrase “pitter patter of little feet” clearly never met any children. Two huge heavy shapes land on the bed and... Read more... |
This should actually be Village Idiots, rather than the singular form, as I’m going to make reference to a group of people who have proven themselves to be no more than...Read more... | ||
Snowtown By the time you read this my beautiful wife and I will either have, or be very close to having, our very own small person. So, understanding the possibility that... Read more... |
Can a sane, normal and slightly self-righteous man (well only when I have an opinion or my mouth is open) pass judgment on whether one is a Village Idiot or not?...Read more... | ||
3:47am: Sit bolt upright in bed groping around for bellows. Stare around darkened bedroom trying to work out why am not using bellows to inflate the bean bag that Hilary Clinton... Read more... |
Or: How I came to be locked in a room with four dead credit cards, a shivering bank manager, a supercilious Sandra Sullyesque bitchcow, a terror inducing telephone and a lot...Read more... | ||
Assorted Idiocy from court and the street, showing you just how hard our justice system works to protect us from the deeply stupid. |
Sometimes, and I do mean sometimes, I work pretty hard. In fact, there have been weeks where I reckon I’ve nearly earned some of my paycheck. So it is with much...Read more... | ||
The idea for the idiot issue was, in part, inspired by this story. It is a true story, with almost no poetic licence in the retelling (well, not much anyway).Most of...Read more... |
In the short year that the Tribune has been in publication it has, as is well known, risen to become a beacon of informed debate and social comment. In this vein...Read more... |