The Aussies were seriously lacking in skullduggery at the Adelaide Test last weekend. But that didn’t stop us from having a good time at the Adelaide Oval. Even if it did seem to involve a full day of watching England’s mercenary South African batsman Kevin Pietersen spend the whole day smacking Australian bowlers around the [...]
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Coup d’etat in Australia?
Without an election, or even much drama, we have a new prime minister today. Julia Gillard, who will be Australia’s first female prime minister, took over from Kevin Rudd in a “bloodless coup“. Not as exciting as it sounds – it was actually a planned leadership vote in the Labor party, and Rudd stood down [...]
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
It is winter in Australia which means that it is football season it Australia. And by football, I don’t mean steroid stuffed giants in full body armor standing around for three plus hours, nor overpaid Brazilians kicking a round ball around for an hour and a half in the quest for a nil-nil draw. No, [...]
And if life is really as short as they say, then why is the night so long?
I’m becoming a big fan of Adelaide’s Independent senator Nick Xenophon. He’s one of those rare politicians who is thoughtful and deliberate and votes not along party lines but for his convictions. He’s staunchly anti-gambling, an unpopular position in a nation that’s been overrun by ‘pokies’ and multi-million dollar lotteries. I’m with him 100% on [...]
“You’ll never take me alive”, said he.
Saturday was our two year immi-versary, the anniversary of our immigration to Australia. I stumbled off of a 24 hour flight into to the blazing South Australian with Dr. O’C and a seven month old Boy Z. I’d never been to Australia and despite befriending several natives (including the one I had lived with for [...]
Who mistook the steak for chicken?
A couple of weeks ago I was cooking dinner, as I do most nights. We were having some sort of chicken dish and the recipe called for 250g (~1/2 lb) of chicken breast. I wandered over to the refrigerator, pulled out the twin pack of chicken breasts that Dr. O’C had picked up at the [...]
I have to sing about the book I read
Thanks to Jen and Zen Mom for the heads up about Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read. I’m a big freedom of expression Lefty and I find censorship of any kind intolerable. I wrote a post about my experience with books and the people who ban them last year and didn’t [...]
Beachcomber
Day 3 of ‘Voluntary’ Underemployment
-Number of cigarettes smoked: Incredibly, still zero.
-Number of Panadol taken in the vain effort to stop the pounding in my head: 17
-Hours spent wondering just what the hell I am doing: Oh, thousands.
And I was at work for half the day. I made the mistake, however, of taking Boy Z down [...]
I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier
I’ve often been told that I have the face for radio. In fact, during my first stab at college I was briefly employed as a DJ in a Top 40 radio station in a neighboring town. Actually, I was employed for one whole day. I was hired to man the dials for the early morning [...]
I think I’m cured. No, in fact, I’m sure
All through our last autumn and winter in Blighty we were bombarded with the “So, where the bloody hell are you?” ad by Tourism Australia. It wasn’t a fantastic ad – notable only in its use of the word ‘bloody’, which sent the Broadcasting Advertising Clearance Centre into conniptions. ‘Hell’ didn’t seem to bother them.
I [...]
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