NBA Franchise Catch-up If you’re even a mildly-serious hoops fan, you’d surely agree with me that the golden era of the NBA was the 80s to early 90s. Close your eyes for a moment and it’s easy to drift back to a time when Spud Webb was winning dunk comps, Craig Ehlo was repeatedly made [...]
There’s a classic philosophical thought experiment called the ‘brain in a vat’ theory which proposes that you’re really just a brain floating in a tank and are hooked up to a computer which simulates all your experiences. Therefore, it says, there’s no way of knowing conclusively whether you are actually yourself, with a brain inside [...]
Hey man, I just … I can’t function in the morning without my morning coffee. I really fuckin love the coffees they make at Single Origin man. Single Origin FTW!! I mean, that guy – he’s so crazy! But I reckon he’s good for business, right? Yeah, LOLz man! I dunno anyway … what? Yeah [...]
I apologise for straying into the subject area of my esteemed colleague Jo Jo Zep, but some things just need to be said. Sneaky Sound System are the without doubt the most creatively bereft, musically ignorant, worst ‘band’ in Australia. I know, I know, it’s a tough call to make with competition of the standards [...]
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the ascendance to power of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. To help celebrate this milestone it’s instructive to put Kruddy’s story into the context of his past – as a prime dork. The type of guy at school who would sit under shadecloth at lunchtime rolling 25 sided dice [...]
I was once accused by an Irishwoman of being insensitive for belittling the trauma to the Irish people of the Great Potato Famine. I’d like to restore that woman’s faith in my humanity and compassion by explaining the importance of this harrowing historical episode to a wider audience. Firstly the numbers: The famine lasted [...]
President Obama Imagine a winning contender for an Australian election standing in The Domain in Sydney on a cold autumn night to deliver a victory speech. Imagine that the speech was delivered not to ‘the party faithful’, colleagues and staffers but to 75,000 ordinary people drawn there by the pure charisma of the candidate, the [...]
I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief that the resolution of Coogee Bay Hotel vs shit eating Whyte family has finally been reached. While it’s nothing short of deserved that the CBH now has a permanently tainted reputation, the Whytes carried an air of taking themselves a little too seriously that always [...]
I was anxious the other night. There I was, bending forward on a couch, watching a TV that wasn’t quite at a volume I could hear comfortably, allowing some mild obsessive compulsive rituals to play out – drawing patterns on my thighs with my index finger and thumb, tapping out rhythms with my foot against [...]
There’s less than a month to go in the contest to choose between the donkeys and the elephants for the title of Emperor of the Free World… also known as the US Presidential elections. Don’t worry if you’ve been too busy downloading iPhone apps to keep abreast of developments, because we’re here to fill you [...]
