Another wonderful for music. Along with more conventional fare, my list has some pretty odd stuff in it, but that’s just what I’ve...

This has been my best year of reading in well over a decade. So many wonderful books. The two lists here refer to books READ this year,...

There are spiders, spiders everywhere. Red. Black. Red. Black. The black, reaching out in all directions; A vicious line of red bisecting...

Dear Prime Minister, You still seem to be struggling to engage in any meaningful way with the Australian people during this crisis. So, I...

Vale, Terry Jones. Python. Saddened to hear that Terry Jones has finally succumbed to the horrible form of dementia that first robbed him...

Something's amiss; we gather at the muster point, wondering if there's truly such a thing as false alarm. We gather at the steeled sign,...

I was deeply saddened by passing of John Prine. Prine was a beautiful, gentle man, whose modesty greatly belied his talent. Though he...

The world has long known that despite its endless boasting, America is not - and likely has never been - the greatest country on earth....

Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940 - 2020) So very sad to hear of the passing of the wonderful Tim Brooke-Taylor. To me, Tim will always be Tim from...

Little Richard (1932 - 2020) Little Richard was the Big Bang of Rock and Roll. As such, he ought to be considered one of the most...

Lot of brouhaha about 'redskins' and 'chicos' changing their names. I understand. If there's one thing that's important to me in this...

The biathlon at the Winter Olympics has got to be one of the stranger sporting combinations. I recall hearing Robin Williams describe it...

There can be no mistake; the luge is a very dangerous sport. The tragic death of young Georgian athlete, Nodar Kumaritashvili in training...

I recently noticed that a Western Australian football legend has officially been given the status of "legend" by the Western Australian...

It's probably axiomatic to say that television commercials do not have our best interests at heart. That I find many, many commercials...

There seems to have been a debate raging recently between those who declare an affiliation to a particular religion, and those who...

In their weekend match, West Coast Eagle player Shannon Hurn delivered a solid bump (or shirt-front) to Port Adelaide player Paul Stewart...

Sometimes, films (like all creative works) need to challenge the expectations of their audiences. To succeed, they need to do it well....

I woke this morning to hear that British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is in a spot of bother over an off-the-cuff comment that the...