I Drew This

Sunday night, watching TV with C. Richard Roxborough’s girlfriend has just arrived from London. They’re having a conversation.
C: What have I seen her in?
Me: Playschool.
C: Yeah, that’s it.

I’m not much of cartoonist but I had this idea and it could only really be done as a cartoon, or a comedy sketch (which are much harder to blog, so you get the cartoon). Ask if you need me to explain it.

Looks like someone did what Woody Allen couldn’t get right.

I both admire and loathe Alexander Downer. I admire that he’s educated and articulate and very well able to make a point; however I loathe that he seems unable to do so without coughing up a torrent of ad hominem invective.
I was driving home tonight listening to PM. (Not to the PM: to the ABC [...]

C and I were chatting last night about nothing in particular, when a particular person, who has been in the public eye a lot of late, came up. There had been an article in a recent newspaper about this person. C said:
Did you read that article about [person's name here] in the Sunday Mail? It [...]

Firstly, I don’t know why bad-hair Corby got voted in to the final. Judges on Idol have often said it’s not about the talent you have but about how marketable you are. And Corby is just nothing but a good voice. I think he has the least charisma of the final three. Not to mention [...]

The Umbilical Brothers have a kids’ TV show called The Upside Down Show. I’ve never really been big fans of the UBs, who as far as I could tell made a living out of making squelching noises into a microphone, but for kids TV, they’re excellent.
They have this thing at the start of every show [...]

I was watching House last night and there was this storyline about a woman who had synaesthesia.
Synaesthesia is a completely cool disorder some people have where stimulation of one sense can trigger perception in others. An example might be if you hear or taste something and sense a certain colour, or you might think of [...]

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?”
I’m [...]

I happened to be in the car at around 6.45 this morning and the radio was tuned to ABC local (891). The hosts were talking with a representative of a leading telco regarding mobile phone reception, specifically in the Adelaide Hills area. He was explaining that the CDMA network was being phased out soon and [...]