AUSTRALIANS will gamble on two flies. crawling up a wall, they say.
Aussie bookmaker Tom Waterhouse is currently betting on how much Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream will fetch at a Southey’s auction this month.… Go to Article
Category: Aussie humour
Always Gai and often chatty but Mum’s the word now
Gai Waterhouse clams up though the boys John Singleton Tom Waterhouse and Andrew Johns have their say
Gai Waterhouse was an actor but she was not in this film.
… Go to Article Iraqi Icicle excerpt
The comic detective novel Iraqi Icicle is being released at Pine Rivers Art Gallery Queensland Australia on December 20 in a multi-art event as part of the world-wide A Big Project.
… Go to Article To sex or not to sex
THAT is the question: to sex or not to sex.
A lot of websites are saying no to sex.
On the first page of a Google search of mine, six websites had this exact same bait line: ‘American Playwright David Mamet explains why no play or movie he writes or directs include explicit sex scenes.’
… Go to Article On the road to Damascus Paul’s book pummels your brain
IF The Book of Paulwere a music album, a critic might say it had cross-over appeal.
It has a feel of a genre novel but it is hard to classify because of its elements of sci-fi, dystopia, psychological drama and comedy.
… Go to Article Critical readers have their say about 7 Shouts
What’s hot these days?
A MAN who has been dead for 30 years, an 80-year-old car and a teenager are the hottest tickets of the week.
… Go to Article Celia Shorojk film previews
The trouble with ageing
Film reviews by Celia Shorojk
Hope Springs
Alright you baby boomers, you happy now; they are even making films about sex for you.
… Go to Article 10 annoying things in fiction
“I know nothing about him,” I murmur.
“…Thank you,” I murmur.
“Um. Actually –” I mutter.
“Raising the ordinary to the extraordinary,” I murmur.
… Go to Article Mohamed we adore you
Olympic Rant #18 On the fourteenth day God resumed work
THE squabbles and rancour of this year’s Ilympics were run into the ground on Day 14 as Great Britain, Jamaica and the United States turned in memorable performances.
… Go to Article Pirates steal sport
Olympic Rant #17 IOC what you are up to
Pirates of the High-O Sea
REDCLIFFE Musical Theatre rendered the Gilbert & Sullivan musical The Pirates of Penzance as if it were carried on an invigorating ocean breeze.
Phoney war on drugs
Olympic rant #16 Journalism 101 Create a furore
THE Bolt v Lewis drug brouhaha was a classic media beat-up. It raced across international television screens and newspaper front pages with a speed worthy of the central characters.
… Go to Article Daily Mail arrives every 24 hours
Olympic Rant #15 The Mailman delivers
OLYMPIC coverage by the U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail is ranging from traditional adolescent-male nonsense to the downright weird.
… Go to Article Winners and sinners
Olympic Rant #15 Third-rate Stuporpowers declare war
THE rivalry for Olympic medals between Great Britain and Australia is difficult to understand if you are not from one of the two countries.
… Go to Article Bolts in with the name game
Olympic Rant #12 Fast men are gone in well under 10
THE power of words is more than a casual contribution to the living mythology that is Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.
… Go to Article Games people play
Olympic Rant #11 Games reputation on the chopping block
WHEN I heard the IOC had booted out a referee and the coppers had lumbered an Olympic tweeter, I thought it best to turn my attention to an alternative spectacular, the annual Pine Rivers Show.
… Go to Article Badminton should be good mittens one of my favourite things
Illympic Rant #10 Do those Commie bastards!!!
IN an earlier rant I portrayed the efficiently murderous missiles being developed by a Russian-Indian partnership as shuttlecocks for the impending Illympic sport of water badminton.
… Go to Article Pay a wet tribute to Phelps
Olympic Rant #9 Give the pool cleaner a medal
ONE important thing which sets sporting champions apart from the rest of us is they hat3e to lose.
… Go to Article Pool brouhaha splashes at the shallow end
Olympic Rant #8 Dopey blasts dwarf win
‘YOU’RE a drug cheat.’
‘No you’re a drug cheat.’
‘You’re a druggie.’
Nah, you’re a druggie; nah, nah, nah.’
… Go to Article How the West has lost
Olympic Rant #7 More surprises than at a Tea Party Geography Quiz
UPSETS are the order of the first daze of the 2012 Games.
… Go to Article Shoot and Poke at the Olympics
Olympic rant *6 Asia tops the West
They like to start the killing sports early at the Olympics.
China’s Siling Yi took gold in the 1om women’s air-rifle shooting-at-things and South Korean Jongoh Jin won the men’s 10m air-pistol shooting-at-things.
… Go to Article Shoot off the mouth for gold
Olympic Rant #5 Barkingly mad start to the games
IT was a weird start to Games e competition with American super-swimmer Michael Phelps missing a medal in the 400m men’s individual medley won by teammate Ryan Lochte.
… Go to Article Olympics in song
Olympic rant #4 OIC bans Bond
WHAT were they thinking. giving mad Irish film maker Danny Boyle $42 million to stage the Opening Ceremony of the London?
… Go to Article Rand and rand the Olympic track
Olympic Ayn Rant # 3: The American Anthem
I AM a big fan of political and corporate leaders aligning themselves with arts and literature to the merriment of the general public.
… Go to Article Mad Mayor forgets it is all Greek
Olympic Rant #2: The London Games Anthem
WE all might worry about the London Lord Mayor’s insistence on an Olympic anthem in the style of an ancient Greek ode if we did not know Boris Johnson is a total loop-de-loop.… Go to Article
Gonzoid rants on the London Olympics 2012
Olympic Rant #1 The Patron
THESE Olympic reports are written from the edge of the city and the jaws of hell.
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