December 2007

Built like she was, she had the nerve to ask me if I planned to do her any harm…

No, there’s nothing to worry about in that lyric. Nothing at all… I’m all over the place in both the print and online worlds right now — and I’m even working on Christmas Eve. Bah, and humbug, and all that jazz… Firstly, online. CNET.com.au has not one, but two of my reviews live today, just […]

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On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'round, and they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found…

I feel I should point out that I’m not actually bad to the bone. Possibly slightly mischievous, or a bit cheeky at worst. But “Cheeky to the Bone” just doesn’t cut it in rock lyrics. In any case, what I most definitely am is published, yet again — and depending on how the family health

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Can journos be bought?

As a journalist, I realise that I rank somewhere up there amongst politicians, used car salesmen and bank managers in terms of the public’s love and trust. Blaming “The Meeja” is a popular pastime in today’s culture, and while I occupy a small sub-niche of the kind of “Meeja” that’s usually vilified, there’s still certainly

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"Look, if you don't get that camera off me, I'm going to kick you right in the *BOING*"

That’s a pretty much direct quote, uttered by yours truly, from a Christmas video shot some fifteen years ago that I’ve just unearthed and backed up from its rather grubby VHS original. Family history, and all that. A few key observations, one for each year that has since elapsed: I was a moderately unattractive eighteen

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