Back in 2003, there was a furore in the US, after Vanity Fair Magazine posted an article titled “Ask Dame Edna“. It contained fictional questions and the character’s answers to them. One question asked “Should I learn” Spanish?”. The Dame’s answer was “Don’t bother, why would you want to have a conversation with the help?” [...]
One of the downsides to being a once-growing lad, is the assumption by all and sundry that just because you are a man with a healthy appetite, you’ll eat anything. I guess I’m not completely innocent as far as creating this assumption goes. I do remember sitting in the high school cafeteria one day at [...]
I guess it’s an important part of advertising, and perhaps life in general, to be the best at something. Product A may be the best because it removes more dirt from dirty clothes than product B (assuming we’re talking washing powder). But what if product C does a job that’s 95% as good as A [...]
Growing up, I played a lot of competitive sport. When I got a bit of coordination about me, sometime in early high school, I took up Australian Rules football, then moved on to volleyball quite early and gave footy the flick before I turned 16. For a while I was a bad sportsman (which I [...]
As I walk through the city, as I am now, I like to look up at the windows of the big hotels just in case there are naked people there. Tell me you don’t.
I’ve had Pepys’ Diary on RSS feed for a while now. I’d often tried to access this text in book form, I once tried to start reading it on the date the diary starts to keep in sync with it, but could never really discipline myself to read it every day. So I think a [...]
I was up well before dawn on Anzac day. Though that has more to do with being a parent of small children than it does with any kind of duty on my part to observe the significance of our public holidays. (I wrote about a similar occasion here.) We did have the TV on for [...]
I used to be quite the entertainer. I grew up in both a family that was fairly musical and a community that had a lot of amateur theatre groups. I guess it was inevitable that I would get caught up in it all. I started my life in music as a drummer. Our music teacher [...]
I was recently given a small, leather-bound, A5 notebook. I guess it’s for writing in. It was a birthday present from a good friend, who bought it in Sweden. It’s rather minimal: black leather, small embossed logo and lined pages within. It’s schmick, classy and (and here’s the problem) beautiful in its untouchedness. So I [...]
C & I have been watching the first season of Gilmore Girls on DVD. I’ve said before that C & Lorelai are kinda similar, so having two intelligent, articulate, totally hot, 30-something women around while I’m lying on the couch doesn’t do me any harm one bit. One of the motifs in GGs, is their [...]
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