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 [...]

blogging: how to

I read some time ago there are something like 100 million blogs in the world. That’s a heck of a lot of zeroes. What that means is, there’s a pretty good chance as you sit in your train carriage or traffic jam of a morning, some of the people around you might be secretly sizing [...]

bloody football

I gen’rally try to avoid if I canAFL in all shapes and all formsIn Melbourne at least if you manage this featYou look kinda strange and forlorn.
Today it seems harder than ever beforewith seventeen pages of wrap-around newsof sacking the coach of one football teamto which I say “Kevin Shee-who?”
“Sheeds” so it seems, was a [...]

bailing on Sri Chinmoy

The last words in my post on Friday were something like this:
“I have hopes of running the Sri Chinmoy 30k at Princess Park on Sunday”
Well, they may have been the last words for the day, but they weren’t exactly the final word on the subject.
As it turns out, I spent the next 24 hours mulling [...]

Ted Haggard is completely straight

You may or may not recall a few months ago a guy in America called Ted Haggard got himself into a spot of public bother when it came out he had paid a guy for sex and/or amphetamines over a 3 year period.
So what’s the problem with that? As long as it’s between consenting adults [...]