Issue 149

..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…

..found a story that I’d seen in on the NZ Prime News about a Kiwi musician, Don McGlashan, (whom I saw in the Comedy Festival a few years ago in The Front Lawn), who’d ridden his bicycle into an open car door, (somewhat ironically in Auckland’s Dominion Rd, which featured in a hit song he’d…

..Wall. (Check out the wall on my Facebook page) David Langsam commented that ‘..the Palace has the potential to be a good venue, but the wrestling and golf and rotating sports on big screens is a terrible distraction.’ Ron Mahony, a fellow Cantabrian musician responded with, ‘Hell – we used to play with both the…

.. and ineffectually for seemingly hours. But here’s the thing. It was actually only half an hour. And here’s the other thing. Apart from me, and the people round me party to my mutterings, nobody seemed to appreciate that it was pure crap. Because then, breathtakingly, Elvis left the stage. And not only that, the…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..made any sense; nothing had a name. All I knew was fear. Not surprisingly, we were late for the appointment. Some people on other drugs, like ecstasy for instance, report that they feel that the universe is radiating love, and I suppose all this proves is that your view of…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..the sushi bar in the arcade and had some sushi rolls and miso soup before finally heading to the carpark and my date with the supermarket. When I got to the carpark I was astonished to find the lone busker still baying at the sullen sky, so I walked up…