Issue 119

Well, for one thing he’s usurped a traditional Rudd family name. My great-grandfather on my father’s side was named Minchin Rudd and my father still carries Minchin as his middle name. OK. In fact, I couldn’t give a fig about happenstance like that. It’s his talent I resent. M couldn’t have been absolutely riveted to…

..as my Latin teacher for the last two excruciating years of Latin – and so I found it expedient, if not absolutely necessary to become a conniving plagiarist rather than bear the brunt of Harry’s ire or, God help me, actually do some serious study. It was in my last year of Latin when I…

Distributor of the year 3.3.04 – Yesterday, Bill, Jenny and I hauled our arses down to West Melbourne for a long overdue appointment with Adam Johnstone and the charming Miss Kate (Candlish) at Sound Vault Records. The Rosses (Wilson and Ryan) have been recommending them so insistently that it was only a matter of time…

home rather than call the RACV, (only about 15 minutes away anyway), get a clothes hanger, walk back and break into my van all by myself. I’ll remember to park next to a criminal next time. ‘Never totally discount someone’s negative assessment of themselves’, is probably not exactly what I once read or heard, but…

Liger! Liger! Burning bright! Thanks to Paul Culnane for forwarding this to me The 10ft Liger who’s still growing… He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood. But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood – as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar….