The news today that counterfeiters in Communist China are making fake bottles of Penfolds wines to rip off the gullible locals with more money than sense is unsurprising. It has been going on for ages. The cringeworthy new faux-premium labels based on the Penfolds font are named ‘Penfunils’ and ‘Benfords’. If I did not own …
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Putting QAnon in its proper context….
This is way too funny not to share.
A Shout Out to Friendly Jordie
I have always been rather skeptical about Crikey, a subscriber only alternative news website which has been in existence since around 2000. It was originally started under the name ‘Jeffed’ (a verb which came into being in late 1992 to describe the various unpopular decisions newly elected Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett was taking) in late …
Meet Daisy Jones
Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keogh is an uberbabe. I first heard of her a few months ago when I first heard of an upcoming show she is to star in on Amazon Prime Video: Daisy Jones and the Six. She plays the eponymous character. Daisy Jones and the Six sounded to me like it is …
Pandemic reaches a grisly milestone
According to the Worldometer website this morning, 100 million people have now been infected with the covid since the pandemic first broke out some 13 months ago. I expect that by Easter (or not too long after that), this will double to 200 million. I do not want to guesstimate when the current 2.1 million …
Is it lucky when a kangaroo crosses your path?
After the cool change this afternoon, I went for a walk upstream along the Maribyrnong River from Solomon’s Ford. About 2km up from the ford, a kangaroo hopped across the path and into the long grass just in front of me. Sadly, it was so quick that I did not have time to get the …
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The Land of the Long Weekend – Reflections on Australia Day
The phrase “Land of the Long Weekend” was coined by the late conservative Melbourne psychologist and sociology commentator Ronald Conway, as the title of a book he published in 1976. I have not read that book, but I consider, just like Donald Horne’s 1963 classic The Lucky Country, the phrase itself has passed into Australian …
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When the Gods of Sport Stop Smiling
Aside from my occasional fix of AFL, I am not really that interested in sport, although I wish I had bothered to watch the Indian test team win against the odds in the final batting session of the fourth test today. Reading on my news feed stories about how many of the tennis players and …
Waiting for Elvis to Return? When QAnon is not enough: Observations on the Far Side of Crazy….
In the mid 1980s, a little known cult known (in as original a way as possible) as the Jesus Christians decided on a major publicity stunt. They announced that several of their members were to prove their faith in the Lord by walking across the Nullarbor without supplies. For those of my readers in mainland …
Can’t Happen Here? Observations on the Situation in the USA
The first Sinclair Lewis novel I read, probably most aptly, was ‘Can’t Happen Here’. It is a dark and pessimistic story about a populist demagogue, probably based in part on Huey Long, who turns himself from US President to Fascist Dictator. It was one of his later novels, written in the 1930s, where issues in …
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Lost For Words! 