Celebrating sinistrality.
Happy left-handers day fellow southpaws! Right-handed friends – navigating your world is not always as easy as you think. Sometimes it’s downright awkward.
Hug it out!
Had an experience last week in the side streets of Bowen Hills – in the middle of a weekday morning – that has convinced me road rage is getting ridiculous. Either that or people are just looking for any reason to be a dick. We have probably all seen a road rage incident – yelling, swearing, aggressive tailgating,…
Joss Whedon: vote Romney, because zombies.
I have a long time love of all things Joss Whedon. The reasons are too many to count. But here’s one…
I know you are, but what am I?
Newspapers, TV & the interwebz have been saturated the last fortnight with the fallout from Prime Minister Gillard’s spectacular smackdown on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. So much so, I was going to let it pass without comment. But as things appear to have kicked off again, I wanted to weigh in on one thing in particular. Apologies to anyone living…
Do we have to break up now?
Wow. Just, wow. I’m struggling to believe some of the things people have posted on Twitter the last few days. I know there’s often ugly exchanges and not just on Twitter – have you visited a newspaper comment section recently? But Twitter seems to be home to some of the ugliest cases – comments and…
About a boy
I’m going to be a little self-indulgent here because one of my ‘boys’ has a birthday today. Friends will know of my ‘boys’ – a small group of musicians that I so adore, and have adored for so long, that I’ve taken them on as part of me. But I’ll talk about these lovely lads…
Train wrecks and best in show: Olympic team uniforms
With the Olympics underway it’s time again for me to get my fix on sports I love but which don’t appear on the teev too often outside Olympics & Commonwealth Games. But I’m finding myself still distilling the opening ceremony (which, in the opinion of this history & arts loving Anglophile, was awesome) and the…
Five fave fictional leaders
After my post on fictional vs. real politicans, I got to thinking about my favourite fictional leaders. Note: I said favourite – not ‘best’ or ‘greatest’. Not all on my list are great leaders, or inspiring…or even nice. Some I love because they aren’t any of those things. So my five may have been different…
They’re pollies Jim, but not as we know ’em.
Here’s a question: Do politicians crush on their fictional counterparts in the same way us ordinary folk do? If they can see themselves the way we do, they surely must, right? I recently finished watching The West Wing again from the beginning – in part because I believe one must relive the fictional Bartlet presidency regularly…
Kicking against the pricks*
The past few months have not been the most uplifting for many Queenslanders. Writers have seen the Premier’s Literary Awards scrapped, public servants watch and wait to see where the axe will fall, and the LGBT community has been on the receiving end of an almost weekly ’f**k you!’ from the State Government. What has…
Newspaper love: in all its forms
It would seem that there are many who took peculiar enjoyment in yesterday’s announcement by Fairfax. People who in all likelihood don’t read the Fairfax papers unless it’s to rail about articles by ‘latte lefties’ in online forums. Others are whining about paywalls or the fact their paper will be shrinking in size. I can only…
