Most people, or a lot of people I know in the culture I grew up in, tend to ring in the new year by consuming copious amounts of alcoholic beverage, progressively making bigger and bigger idiots of themselves, scrambling around at 11.57 because they can’t find a radio or TV broadcast that is transmitting the [...]
So why aren’t there hot cross buns in the supermarkets yet?
You can’t have Christmas—not a real Christmas—without those self-righteous types who say it’s all just one big money-grabbing fiesta by the retail sector. There was a letter in the paper the other day; something along the lines of “Oh, they didn’t move xmas to coincide with the pagan winter festival, they moved it to coincide [...]
It’s like waking up from an 11-year nightmare. I remember after the last election coming into work on Monday morning and the collective feeling of deflation, defeatedness and just not knowing the fuck what the rest of the country must have been thinking… I was seriously considering a move to New Zealand. Now, I’m as [...]
Here in .au, Halloween isn’t really that big, we don’t have thanksgiving and Guy Fawke’s night smouldered and eventually went out in the early 80s when you ceased to be allowed to buy fireworks over the counter. (Not sure if other .aulians celebrated that one much or if it was just my family on account [...]
There has been much confusion, albeit in my mind only, about whether the solstice occurs on the 21st of the 22nd of June. I had always believed it occurred on the 21st but this morning on the radio they were saying today was the shortest day. (I expect you’ll all observe the occasion by dancing [...]
I don’t know what to say. But not in the way you think I don’t know what to say. There are so many things that the Aus v Ita result brings to mind. That everything from here on in is a cliché, that sport really brings out the ugliest in people, whether it’s in victory [...]
So the miners have been rescued, which is lovely for them. Most networks ran long with this story last night because it was payoff time. This was a network’s wet dream. It had all the elements of drama, suspense, touches of humour and poignant sadness. No wonder every on-air personality was there covering it. Now [...]
Normally, I’m as cynical as they come but for some reason I find myself warming to the occasion of the Royal Danish Wedding. Part of this is the fact that I just got married myself so there is a large residual warm & fuzzy factor there. But I think I like it because there’s nothing [...]
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