The Screen Actors Guild Awards just changed everything . . . from the smell of the Oscars to Rose Byrne’s fashion fortune. The SAGs is the only televised award show to exclusively honour … [Read more...]
five movies to maintain your mojo
January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Reality, urgh, who needs it? It will hit this week, though, or definitely the next as most of us are torn from days idle and holidays idyllic and deposited, again, squarely in front of a … [Read more...]
judgment day
December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There’s a lot happening in the world at the moment, you know, important stuff. The euro crisis, the conscience vote on same-sex marriage, up to two million Briton’s walking off the job . . . and … [Read more...]
a winning formula
October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the gym, in Clint Eastwood’s masterful, Oscar-winning film, Million Dollar Baby, hangs a poster. It reads, “Winners are simply willing to do what losers won’t.” On Derby Day, in … [Read more...]
manners matter
September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the course of moving through life, every hour, every day, every week, there are those who make the journey a delight. You may encounter them just for a moment, and not even learn their name, but … [Read more...]
pool blues
September 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My Mum and Dad won’t go in the pool. They’re in Santorini, for the very first time, and they’re staying at a screensaver. It’s a cluster of domed houses on the edge of cliffs in Oia, and … [Read more...]
warne out of the blue
August 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Geez Shane Warne gets a lot of grief. This morning I did a quick Google News search. Just, you know, typed in two seemingly innocuous words “Shane” and “Warne” . . . and the search engine … [Read more...]
working the suck up
August 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
Work can be a tough place to maintain, or even locate, your dignity. A morning meeting of nodding heads and broken spirits, a client who prizes sycophancy over originality from her servants, I mean, … [Read more...]
khe sanh… que sera, sera
August 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cold Chisel got me thinking. On Sunday night, 33 years after Khe Sanh was first released, this lighters in the air, vodka bottles on the piano anthem, entered the Australian Top 40 for the first … [Read more...]
the first and the last
July 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Which is the love that lives forever: the first or the last? The first love stings with its youth, its heat, its discovery and uncertainty, and is jealously kept, like a ruby dark-as-blood, in the … [Read more...]
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