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Costume dramas
Source: Aimo at Deviant Art One of ironies of my life is the older I get, the more costume parties I am invited to. Not a month goes by without someone insisting the only way to celebrate reaching the...
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Look mum, I did a journalism
As if the prospect of encountering Christopher Pyne on campus didn’t terrify university students enough, this month they awoke to the news there were more people studying journalism than there are...
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Political correctness gone mainstream
Bloody PC hippy Source: smh.com.au The popular view of political correctness is that it is an exclusively left wing phenomenon. Two seasonally appropriate examples of “political correctness gone mad”...
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Underdogs gone overboard
There are only two times when Australians drop the pretence and openly hope Goliath will crush David. The first is the Commonwealth Games, where we treat beating the likes of Papua New Guinea and the...
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It’s the little things
It’s a crowded world we live in. Six billion people crammed in to 30 per cent of the planet’s surface area, minus desolate wastelands like Antarctica and Canberra. We are as different as we are...
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A tale of two Facebooks
I love science. And not just in a passive Brian-Cox-marvelling-at-a-distant-galaxy-way. I want to make love to it in an expletive fashion. So I’m extremely fortunate there is a Facebook group that...
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From Indonesia with Love
Source: Nicholson Cartoons I for one am shocked, SHOCKED, that Australian’s spies might be spying on people. A news story hasn’t shaken me this much since I found out SAS Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith was...
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How To Make Gravy: Australia’s only Christmas carol?
Image courtesy of Grant Cochrane/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net Like its taste in cars and awards show guest presenters, Australia prefers its Christmas carols imported. Some progress has been made in other...
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Australian TV in 2014: Get ready for the Joe Dolce Story
A new year in television brings with it plenty of questions for viewers and executives alike. Who survived the Summer Bay bombing? Has Australia still got talent? Why on earth did Colin Friels agree...
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Is America's most realistic sit-com a cartoon?
Reblogged from Humor in America:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz9rQsutfuo&w=584&h=359] By Ben Anderson I had two weeks off work recently and much to my wife's chagrin I spent it...
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