I am fried, but in a great way. I think everyone in this town in fried.
This is my second Asian experience, my first being Phuket. Phuket felt kind of professionally Asian. Like it was performing a pantomime of exotic pleasures for westerners to throw money at. I felt like there was hate behind the smiles sometimes. There was a massage place next door to our hotel, where western men impressed themselves with how little they could pay young women for hand jobs. Daughters, wives and...
In 1997, seminal British trip-hop, act Smoke City sang, “After the rain comes sun, after the sun comes rain again. After the rain comes sun, after the sun comes rain again.” How charming I thought at the time, how whimsical and post-modern to drone on endlessly of the planet’s most obvious and arguably least interesting cycle. 13 years and one very long El Nino drought later I wish the Queensland Government would re release the song as a public service announcement. Beautiful one day,...
Keira Knightley has denied she's anorexic for years. Her favourite defence is that anorexia runs in her family, having afflicted both her mother and Grandmother, so she knows what it's about, and would never submit to it. Well this pic was taken a couple of days ago and she is thinner than ever. I'm not one of those women who obsesses about these things I promise you, but the glorification of Keira in her current state as "beautiful" is really disturbing me now. Her jawline has been sharp for...
The dream at the coining of the phrase "mass media", of the same depth of information being made available to "the masses" as was previously enjoyed by the intellectual few has turned into a nightmare of lowest common denominator showmanship.
Invited to the unveiling of a social network invented for seriously ill children and their families, I also found myself witnessing an incredibly frank conversation between a female journo and a male photog regarding the Royal Children's Hospital's...
A friend of mine told me about a defining incident from childhood.
Out for a stroll with mum one beautiful morning, they met an elderly lady in the street. The two ladies exchanged pleasantries until their attention turned inevitably to the little boy looking up at them. "What's your name, little man?" asked the old lady. "Judith" answered the boy.
He got over the name "Judith" as he grew, but not the feeling that he was a she, and she is now a 60 year-old transsexual lady called Vivian....
Ok, Matt Newton, Matt Newton's legal team, Mel Gibson, Paul Hogan, the Congolese Malitia, the Taliban, the lady who threw the cat in the bin, Tony Abbott, talk-back radio hosts, bathroom scales, parking inspectors, cyclists, Sean Connery, Human Nature, Robert Mugabe, minor birds, people who call me "harsh" on twitter, trans-fats, car-park stealers, Christian/Jewish/Islamic Fundamentalists, Avril Levine, petrol/electricity/water prices, bras that hurt, corporate politics, compulsory work functions,...
Before anyone commences a media campaign to convince us that they have a mental illness, like say, bi-polar or that their depression medication made them do something they would never ordinarily do, shout yourself a couple of minutes with Sean Connery. He's a guy that many women claim as their ultimate crush. I'm always shocked because I thought everyone knew about his views on assaulting women. Here they are in all their glory. Some men are not mentally ill, or on medication, they're just...
Timely story in today's Daily Telegraph. I need a cockatoo so bad. My husband stopped me bringing a baby goat home a couple of weeks ago, and I've never stopped regretting it. TIm, who I work with, says keeping them in cages is cruel, which is rediculous because cockies can talk, so if they didn't like it, they'd say. Anyhow, this poor Czeck bloke thought he'd feed his crusts to two of those friendly Aussie birds, what he didn't realise was that there were about six thousand more of them...
My husband pointed out to me last night that this is the first Easter weekend we've ever spent together. We've been a couple for 14 years so that's quite an achievement although there are a lot of couple things we've never done. He's never attended a 'chick flick' screening with me, because
1) He's an arsehole
and 2) I hate them anyway.
He won't even go to see movies he would like with me. He's a WWII nut, so every time one of those massive American propaganda films aimed at reminding...
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I was supposed to go to the animal sanctuary today. I was sitting in the back of a tuk tuk bright and early this morning having attracted much attention with my request to be taken to Phnom Tamao. Rove suggested I go as he loves it and has a tiger enclosure named in his honour. Long story short, I realised just in the nick of time what all the kerfuffel was about - the sanctuary was a two hour drive away. By the time we reached the end of the street I asked the driver to pull over so we could...