Year: 2026

S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M M I K E R U D D B I L L P U T T . C O MM M I K E R U D D B I L…

..differentiates Melbourne from the rest of the world. Or maybe just Australia. It gives locals the joy of being the best in the world at a game that no one else plays or wants to play; in this it is like gridiron football writ very small. Rugby is at least played by more countries though…

..discovered it was written by George Bernard Shaw – we’ll call him GBS from now on – and the star, (and executive producer), was none other than Christopher Plummer, widely pilloried for just being in The Sound of Music, but a perfect fit for the role of Caesar. The GBS version of the relationship between…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. however, as it was the subject of constant headlines and discussed in hushed tones by disquieted mums over cups of tea and soggy white cucumber sandwiches from Beaths to Ballantynes. Strangely however, I don’t once remember lesbianism being mentioned, either in conversation or in the media, confined as it…

Dick’s Toolbox cont. ..real winner. I wandered into this musical genre through Stephen May, who learnt guitar from Gary Young. Stephen thought that as Mike is musically brilliant, some talent might have devolved to me – a supposition that would have pleased neither a geneticist nor a behavioural scientist. Mr May, apart from being a…

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..delighted by him doubling his bets to cover his losses, as they profited by the eight billion dollars that he had lost. This increased the bonuses, the eventual sale of Porsches, floating gin palaces, excessive dinner, divorce settlements etc. of the very few people who tended to sit in front of trading screens for far…

..A Fate Worse Than Death, or simply provocative and silly like Mama, Did Jesus Wear Makeup?, but there’s no discernible trend as far as I know – apart from avoiding the bleeding obvious, of course. Perhaps perversely, (or of course perversely), while I’m quite comfortable playing certain songs for years at a time, I’m not…

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