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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  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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           “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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                                                                                                      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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Voltage Pictures in association with Summit Entertainment have today announced that production on “The Hurt Locker – Part 2” will soon commence at Sydney’s Fox Studios. The 2nd installment of The Hurt Locker will not revolve around the Army bomb-disposal unit in Baghdad. Instead ‘Hurt Locker 2 – Get my son out of there’...
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There is more slamming poerty and philosophical verbal prose in this interview than the first 6 weeks of a An Intro to Modern American Poetry community night course. Among 'Vatican assasin warlocks' and 'Gnarly Gnarlingtons' are such gems as "I wanted to watch Jaws on the ocean, in the dark... to embrace the fear".
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Silvio, oh brother they’re out to get you man. They want to see your beaten bloody body strung up in Piazza Loreto, Mussolini-style circa April ’45, hanging upside down with the blood draining through your eyes, your ears, your nose – they’ll beat your lifeless body some more, burn your platform shoes and polka-dot...
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Napoli robbery fuck-up These two clowns hot foot it into a pharmacy, grab the loot then split, but (as caught on CCTV) when they get to their scooter realise they’ve left the fucking keys inside. Don’t you just hate misplacing the keys when you’re in a rush… The imagined verbals outside are endless “you...
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You have to be careful of giving yourself to causes, mass rallies, mass opinion, mass anything, and indeed mass itself. But there are situations when there is not the luxurious alternative of inaction, of doing nothing and just letting it go by without comment, because the weight of history bears down on your thoughts...
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