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 …
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Melbourne Victory Supporters Make Collingwood Supporters Look Like Valuable Members Of Society
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/three-men-charged-over-violent-melbourne-derby-pitch-invasion-20221219-p5c7jm.html I bet they have as few teeth too!
Australia Soccer’s Darkest Day….
I remember, circa 1991 or 1992, during the troubles in what was then called Yugoslavia, going with a Greek friend down to South Melbourne to watch the soccer team then known as South Melbourne Hellas play against the team then known as Melbourne Croatia. I think that the game was then in the national league, …
I like a good revisionist Western…
I’m still convalescing from the Covid, and isolating is sending me mildly around the twist. To keep me somewhat sane, I have been paying more attention to streaming TV than usual. Which led me to start watching The English, a revisionist Western series starring Emily Blunt, an aristocratic Englishwoman setting out in the American West …
No longer Novid….
You know, I was originally going with some friends for lunch today at Arundel Farm Winery somewhere on the far side of Keillor, where the flight path is the only clue that you’re not out in the country somewhere. My friends are doing lunch as I write. As for me, I am isolating thanks to …
How ‘Angry’ is ‘Doctor’ Catherine Cumming really?
My mother has very sensible instincts. After two decades or so of exposure, as a Maribyrnong ratepayer, to the municipal intrigues of the Cumming family, local landowners and perennial council candidates, she is very cynical about Catherine Cumming. After all, as a long time councillor and erstwhile mayor of the City of Maribyrnong, ‘Doctor’ Cumming …
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Chairman Dan’s Great Leap Forward
Like many Victorians, I have a deep seated and long standing affection for the long gone State Electricity Commission of Victoria. My father was involved in building its headquarters, Monash House, in William Street in the early 1970s, and then worked in its maintenance team for a decade. That building still stands, under a shiny …
The FTX Collapse – Why Are People Surprised?
Joseph Conrad has been one of my favourite novelists since my late teens, when I first read the novella Heart of Darkness. He could be hit and miss sometimes – Under Western Eyes is brilliant, but the similarly themed The Secret Agent seemed a mere shadow of his greatest works. His best work is in …
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Worst World Cup Ever – Serves FIFA right for holding it in Qatar
http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/world-cup/qatars-world-cup-beer-ban-is-a-deliberate-f-you-to-the-rest-of-the-world/news-story/6eba818e66e6a15428e000bded1eb521 The only good thing about the Soccer World Cup being awarded to Qatar after the payment of mucho bribes to FIFA delegates was that it stopped Australia from getting hosting rights ( yes I hate soccer that much). But after spending billions of dollars and uncounted lives of guest workers to build the stadia, …
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Lost For Words! 