Author Archives: Ernest Zanatta

The other day, a colleague who is really into all the Star Wars derivative shows on Disney+ asked me if I was up to date with The Bad Batch and had finished watching Andor yet. I told him that I was not even up to date on the rebooted How I Met Your Father (a …

Continue reading “In Case Disney Are Really Listening….”

In totally unrelated news to my recent post about Jane Caro’s latest Karenseque tirade, I have ordered some t- shirts more suitable for a man in his soon to be mid 50s.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/tv-star-jane-caro-called-out-on-3aw-over-ageism-rant/news-story/a3ce215579b73607e1f342356ebb40b5 it’s great to see that age does not weary my favourite Karen, Jane Caro, who accuses a baker who called her husband “young man” of ageism.

My front verandah is one of my favourite parts of my home. Provided it is not too warm, it is a great place to sit in the evening and enjoy the end of the day. I was sitting on it last Saturday night with one of my friends, sipping some wine (red of course – …

Continue reading “Kangaroos actually do sometimes hop down the street….”

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/sustainability/trouble-underfoot-feral-deer-a-dire-cost-to-the-environment-and-economy-20230117-p5cd7g.html

I have met George, Cardinal Pell, four times. The first was when a friend of mine, one with far greater devotion to Catholicism than I, organised for him to speak at Monash University in mid 1988. He was a newly appointed auxiliary bishop at the time, and he spoke diffidently but firmly, like someone might …

Continue reading “The Problem With Pell – The Passing of A Prince of the Church”

I am being a bit self indulgent with the title for this blog post, which most means something like ‘The Year That Was And The Year That Will Be’ in Latin. [I assume I have mentioned at some point during the nigh on three and a half years life of this blog that I studied …

Continue reading “Anno Quandamque Anno Futurbus (aka I get intellectually self-indulgent about the year in review etc)”