Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

Tongue numbing

For any readers outside South Australia, there’s been a recent crisis in this state’s hospital industry, with doctors and other specialists arguing over wage increases. Related story here. The issue has come to a head and many emergency doctors and staff have not just gone on strike but resigned their positions altogether. Take that! I’d [...]

Your dirty mind

While I don’t claim to know everything concerning the polical machinations of the Bill Henson case, I will say this. Honi soit qui mal y pense. By which I mean, if you can look at a picture of an impassively posed, naked 13-year old girl and see something salacious, shame on you.

You know you’re a parent when…

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 drew this

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.

I’m pointing a gub at you

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

Black kettles

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 [...]

Nadir

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? [...]

Monday night on the box

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 [...]

Upside-down

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 [...]

Synaesthesia

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 [...]