Category Archives: View from the Ivory Tower

Know Your Politicians

Kevin Rudd – Kevin likes going to the Australian Rules Football and cheering on his favourite side, the Brisbane Lions.  He owns a Brisbane scarf and would love to own a beanie but is scared to buy one because last time he wore a hat everyone laughed at him.  He wears glasses and has shiny [...]

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One of Those Days

If my beer budget will stretch for a bottle of wine I’m going to buy two. You can have it all, everything you want all the time, look at me; I do. I rolled my dice the other day; if it was an odd number I was going out on the town, if it was [...]

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Freedom of Food

I feel like royalty in exile (thanks Rumblefish), from a South Eastern Asian country that you haven’t heard of and don’t understand our customs.  You see …. I want to eat it all, drink it all and experience the kill as well if I can.  What am I talking about?  Well here we go.  I [...]

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World Expo 88 – A Trip Down Memory Lane

In 1988 Australia turned 200 years old.  I was in grade four and we were the smartest fucking kids in the world because we knew what the word bicentennial meant.  We did the only thing this country could, have a world exposition.  What is a world exposition?  It’s where countries from all over the world [...]

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Australia’s First Costco Opens Up to Shit Storm of Free Publicity

Costco has opened up their first store in Australia today in the desolate wasteland known as Docklands.  Docklands, home of exciting, career driven people; concrete towers, corporate sculptures, empty restaurants and a big shitty cracked wheel. What is Costco?  It’s a revolution in shopping!  You get super size trolleys and you get to buy all [...]

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My Time in the Swat Valley Amongst the Taliban

Sun wrinkled Taliban fighters greet each other in an isolated township 25km’s from Saidu Sharif in the Swat Valley Pakistan.  The traditional greeting for two males is a gentle `reach around’ followed by a slap on the back.  They lay their AK47’s at the doorway to their shitty cave and go in for a cup [...]

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Consumerism and the One Hundred Item Challenge

Reading Noodle Gumble’s post about all the cool stuff he wants and then him subsequently showing me a pair of retro glasses (wearing ones, not drinking ones) he wants to add to the list for another $400 odd dollars, I started thinking about all the cool things available to buy, the desire to have these [...]

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The Future of Print News

Rupert Murdoch News Ltd CEO announced last week that the company would charge for internet content on their news websites.  News Ltd for those that don’t know publishes a whole heap of UK newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and locally the Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph and other smaller papers.  I also believe they control [...]

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Do I Even Have a Point? All Signs Point to No

I was trying to articulate a point today at lunch time and really struggling to do so because I don’t think I have it sorted in my head properly. As Dennis Denuto said in the Castle “it’s the vibe”, which was about all I had and I don’t even think I could get that across. [...]

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Rove the Comedic Version of Delta Goodrem

Rove McManus is the Delta Goodrem of comedy, the Asian women in the Worksafe ad that says in the most ocka accent ever “Hey Frank, Howwwaarrreeya?” Has done more for comedy than Rove ever has. Rove is safe and contrived and he wears a suit but he has cons on and isn’t he cute with [...]

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