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Ever since my Grade 4 teacher read The Hobbit to my class back in 1978, I have been a fan of Tolkien. I have lost track of the number of times I have read both The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings, and I have read The Silmarillion three times (most recently after many …
Continue reading “The Disney Star Wars: When Fan Fiction Gets Out Of Control”
As I wrote a few days ago, I quite enjoyed Furiosa, the Mad Max spin off film. Sadly, it appears to have been a flop, which is quite sad as I have always loved Mad Max, and the Roadrunner cartoons (which are the perfect manifestation of this genre). News reports have emerged that the Australian …
Continue reading “$180 Million Flop? Funding Film to Promote Art and Culture….”
It took me quite a while to ‘get’ King Lear. Whilst familiar with Macbeth from high school English class, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest from having read them independently in my teenage years [my initial copy of the Complete Works – I now own four (all unsurprisingly gifted to me) plus separate paperbacks of …
Continue reading “Reddit – The Rebirth of Greek Tragedy as a Social Media Trainwreck”
It’s nearly time we were leavin’We’ll have one more for the roadIt don’t mean nothin’It don’t mean nothin’ So we gather ’round the tableRaise our champagne in the airIt don’t mean nothin’It don’t mean nothin’ ‘Cause we’ve gotThis night together, we’ll haveHere now foreverAh, don’t tell me now, you canWrite me a letterWhere will we …
I am rather embarrassed to admit this, but many years ago I was friends with a mad keen Collingwood supporter. He was not typical of the rabid Collingwood supporter, mind you: he still had all his teeth, no tattoos, no criminal record, and had recently completed his law degree. We were close enough friends that I …
Continue reading “Compogate – Or Turning the Tables on Kathy Gallagher”
As a child, I was fond of watching the old Warner Brothers cartoons, you know: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, and of course the Road Runner. Road Runner is an amusing cartoon series, where the laws of physics, particularly those of gravity, are defied, and there are frequent explosions and high …
Continue reading “Just Like The Road Runner: Mad Max Remains Fun And Relevant”
The sentencing of War Crimes whistleblower David McBride to over 5 years in prison last week was a sad day for justice in Australia. He is, to this point in time, the only person to be imprisoned in relation to the war crimes which were allegedly committed by Australians in Afghanistan. Six months ago, when …
Discovered just now when checking my Commsec account that Broo is no longer listed on the ASX. When a company is removed from the ASX or changes its code, the result is rather Orwellian: it’s as if it has ceased to exist and never existed. Finding information about it needs to be done by other …
Saw the below when in Keilor Road yesterday. Obviously someone has gone to a lot of effort to express their dislike of our local state MP. Not sure whether it’s anything particlar in relation to his ministerial duties or simply that he is a senior member of a government who ruthlessly suppressed legitimate expressions of …
Continue reading “Someone really doesn’t like our local MP Ben Carroll…”
I first visited Brisbane in July 1989, and I happened to go along to see the Britain – Australia Rugby Union Test (I think these days Rugby Union in the UK is so well developed that they have four separate teams instead of one, but I am not one to pay close attention to Rugby …
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