I finished reading the corporate expose ‘The Cult of We’ a couple of weeks ago. It is a fascinating account of how the office rental business WeWork rose from obscurity in New York City to become a ‘unicorn’, ie a start up worth over a billion dollars (at one stage it was valued by investors …
Category Archives: Uncategorized
BROO resolve their boardroom stoush
As the holder of a microscopic small share holding in the ASX listed craft brewer Broo Ltd, I have been quite interested in following the recent developments in the company, particularly the apparent falling out between the founder, Kent “Groges” Grogan and the recently appointed new board member. In the past couple of days, a …
When is a sound thrashing warranted?
Today at the Academy Awards ceremony we had the unscripted entertainment featuring soon to be Oscar winner Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock. Apparently, the cause of offence was a feeble joke about Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, starring in a remake of GI Jane. Presumably her baldness, rather than her poor choice in movie …
When The Beer Goes Sour: The BROO Boardroom Stoush
Did you happen to know that most of the well known beer brands in Australia are now foreign owned? Japanese to be most precise. Kirin have long owned the portfolio of beers held mostly under the Tooheys umbrella, and Asahi have sometime in the past decade ended up as owners of what used to be …
Continue reading “When The Beer Goes Sour: The BROO Boardroom Stoush”
Elvis Costello may always have been Woke, but he is still a good musician
Declan McManus, who is most commonly known to us as the singer Elvis Costello, is someone of whom I have been a moderate fan since the late 1980s. I was rather saddened but somewhat unsurprised by his recent announcement that he will no longer be performing ‘Oliver’s Army’, his anti-military song (the British Army traces …
Continue reading “Elvis Costello may always have been Woke, but he is still a good musician”
Morrissey Always Was The Jerk That Smiths Fans Deserve
My passing acquaintance with the music of 80s angst minstrels The Smiths is limited to what you would expect someone like me to have. Namely, their appearance on the Pretty In Pink soundtrack (a flawed movie given that the ending was changed at the last minute so that the rich handsome guy gets the girl …
Continue reading “Morrissey Always Was The Jerk That Smiths Fans Deserve”
The Real Thing
I could never really get into Midnight Oil. I have tended to find their many lefty protest songs rather whiny and annoying, although I suppose they had their place (right up until Peter Garrett tried to be a politician and showed he wasn’t much good at practising what he preached). I always rhetorically would wonder …
Whether you love or hate the MONA, at least its advertising is honest
I was at the cinemas today for a bit of a treat, and one of the advertisements before the movie was a reel for the Museum of Old and New Art (aka the MONA) in Hobart. It consisted of quoting the one star reviews which the MONA has received. One, featuring a tear rolling down …
Continue reading “Whether you love or hate the MONA, at least its advertising is honest”
Putin rides a bear from which he dare not dismount
‘Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. Discuss’ From memory, 3 decades later, my Politics Honours General Paper (an exam prerequisite to pass to get my Honours degree but which did not cover a particular topic I had studied as an undergrad), was an open question very similar to …
Continue reading “Putin rides a bear from which he dare not dismount”
The Return of History? Russia’s Invasion of the Ukraine
‘Do you think that the Faith has conquered the World And that lions no longer need keepers?’ T.S. Eliot – Choruses From The Rock It is a long time since I read any Fukuyama. His neo-Hegelian take on ‘The End of History’ was all in vogue in the early 1990s, when we in the free …
Continue reading “The Return of History? Russia’s Invasion of the Ukraine”
