“model dancer”

Tell the truth: when you read that title, some part of you secretly thought “stripper”. It’s okay, so did I. Even more so when I saw this picture:

What’s more, when I read that Alina Kabaeva, 24 had once posed in “daring” photographs and was renowned for her outstanding flexibility, the words “high-class hooker” jumped to [...]

deadly sins

I refer today to an old favourite of mine, PJ O’Rourke, and a little piece he wrote recently: Seven New Deadly Sins.
I spent an awfully large proportion of my early 20s with my nose buried in one or more of his books, mostly when I couldn’t stomach more Hunter S Thompson. PJ, if you don’t [...]

shocker

Did you see this in the papers today:
Race row hostel breaks silence
from theage.com.au
Various reports have come out since the story first broke, which have muddied the waters somewhat, but the basis of the story seems to be:

A bunch of Aboriginal women travelled to Alice Springs and checked in to a backpacker hostel
A short time later [...]

god’s truth

There seems to be some misconception amongst you lot about my post yesterday, in which I said something along the lines of:
Julia Gillard: there’s something about her…
Now, it’s true I may have embellished the truth slightly, as I am wont to do, but as they say in the classics, many a true word spoken in [...]

get outta my dreams

er yes, get into my car.
I can’t get that damnable song out of my head today. For some reason, whoever runs the loudspeaker at Ringwood East Station seems to be a great fan of Billy Ocean. Barely a day passes without one of the many gems from Mr Ocean’s ouvre being blasted into my unwilling [...]

big day

The big news around the traps, apart from Gary Coleman from Different Strokes getting married, seems to be about the big apology up at Canberra. It was enormous news where I work. They had big screens set up in the lobby, which was choked with so many people you couldn’t even make it into the [...]

stalled in committee

I note with interest our political lords and masters up in Canberra have come up with a brilliant idea for solving the world’s problems: they’ll ask people.
Kevin Rudd expects policy ideas in focus by year’s end
What a stroke of genius! Seeing as I’m generally sympathetic to that side of politics I’ll conveniently ignore that, for [...]

carla bruni

Melbourne’s running spots seem infested with AFL teams at the moment. Yesterday morning it was Carlton loitering on the Anderson Street hill, today North Melbourne were at Princes Park.
The thought did cross my mind that they’re following me.
That’s not a comforting thought. Imagine that: every time I go for a run, there’ll be a mob [...]