hobble

Not to worry - it wasn’t me hobbling. Not at all, it was Wayne Carey who was “hobbled” by Miami police in a recent trip to the US.
Apparently he was:
“angry, drunk, and violent” and his speech was rapid.from the age.
This was surprising: he hadn’t been hanging out with Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty was [...]

nigella lawson, tyra banks and rotting fish

Before you say anything, I’m no starry-eyed idealist. I know about global warming, the war on terror, imminent global recessions and the like. But still, sometimes you have to say the world’s not such a bad place.
Take this: Marieke Hardy describing the experience of watching a Nigella Lawson cooking show as:
like being tied up with [...]

young fogy

I’m not sure either Em or I are old enough to be legitimately called “old fogies”, but we both independently seem to be taking on a number of fogy-ish traits.
The most obvious is the perception that “kids these days” are out of control and have no respect. From there it’s barely even a half-step to [...]

inside word on AFL 2008 - Carlton are losers

I don’t know all that much about the AFL, and I care even less. I know about as little as it’s possible to know, while living in Melbourne and glancing at the sports pages every couple of weeks.
But I do have an idea of the rules and how it all works in a general sort [...]

daredevil

Rest easy dear reader: this isn’t about Daredevil, the movie with Ben “Mr Charisma” Affleck. Not at all, it’s all about Robbie Maddison. Robbie, if you didn’t know, is the guy who just set the world record for longest motorbike jump in, naturally, Las Vegas:
Aussie jumps for joy at record bike leap
I’m all for this [...]

I would walk 500 miles….

… and I would walk 500 more. Actually, as of this morning, I’ve run slightly over 2000 miles in the last year. See my 2007 training log.
So does that make me the man who walks 2000 miles to fall down at your door?
Very possibly. Falling down at a door sounds quite attractive at the moment.
RunningYes: [...]

sick

I’ve spent much of this week ploughing through websites on various infectious diseases. This is for work, I might add.
When you spend any length of time looking at that sort of stuff you end up convinced you have rotaviral gastroenteritis, brucellosis, shigellosis or possibly the humble scabies.
True: I don’t have any symptoms, per se, but [...]

a cautionary tale

There’s something about water restrictions that really seems to piss people off. It might have something to do with feeling like your neighbours are spying on you, ready to turn you into the water-cops at the drop of a hat. I don’t know.
I understand it in a way. I feel strangely guilty when I’m watering [...]