I know we are living in the age of celebrity. I understand that people no longer want to be famous for being talented. No, being a famous singer, dancer, musician, actor or painter requires hard work, skill, determination, struggle, failure, pain and luck. There is an easier and far more lucrative route that can...
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Dear Mr Evans/Mr Hird, I thought I’d write you a letter. Not because I think you will care what I have to say but it helps me feel better to get it off my chest. At least that what therapists say it does and I can’t afford a therapist. I am a lifelong Essendon...
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  There has been a lot written about why The Beatles broke up. Most of the penned ammunition unloaded on John Lennon’s sweet angelic muse Yoko Ono.  But this is a historic injustice. The evidence for the implosion of the greatest pop band of all time is right in our faces, or more correctly,...
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I started having Orwellian visions of the New Blog Order. All these blogs, who knows what percentage, may come from cramped sub-continental call-center style environments with the coolies mindlessly banging out articles and blogs all day while their colleagues over the partition are flat out adding comments to them all as quickly as they...
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I love to see the PC police in a lather. To see them confronted with a really awkward scenario and how they fumble around totally bereft of ideas on how to deal with it. Oscar Pistorius has collected a 4 x 400m relay medal at the Athletics World Championships this week albeit as a...
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           “AUTHORITIES HUNT KILLER SHARK”. My immediate thought was – so will it be killed or what? Brought to trial? Suited up, provided a public defence lawyer, innocent until proven guilty and all that? Then I read “The latest attack has prompted calls for the offending shark to be hunted down and killed…...
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August 24, 2011 was a particularly sad day in Australia. In the early hours of Wednesday morning news broke that 11 people, including 8 children had been killed when a fire decimated a house in the Brisbane suburb of Kingston. While the media is often too keen to use the words tragic and horrific...
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What an amazing photo taken by Peter Macdiarmid on August 7 at the height of the London riots. At first glance one is drawn to the centre of the picture. We can see a discerning looter dressed in baggy pants and obligatory hoody. He looks well pleased with his booty, casting his eye over...
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In 1998 I decided to sell my first car a 1963 EH Holden Premier sedan. I’d had it for 7 years during which time I repainted it, replaced the engine and transmission, upgraded to disc brakes and a set of dragway mags etc. It was my pride and joy, however it was time to...
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                                                                                                      The Faux Journalist just posted a piece about the recent Arnold Schwarzenegger love-child scandal. I feel I need to now tell the story from the other side, the bruised backside.  “I first met Arnold in the early spring of ‘71. I was just a scrawny little Filipino teenager, covered in acne, bumming...
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