Issue 45

..global political domination. Or to hide their affairs with attractive members of either sex, dreadful schemes with the tobacco industry or some financial skulduggery. These ‘terminated with extreme prejudice’ people may not have stood before any tribunal to have their crimes weighed in the balance of Justice, but extinguished they are with the single bullet…

..days as a kindy kid armed with gallons of foul-smelling poster paints that always ended up resolving to the colour of shit), has different cultural connotations around the world and at different times in its history. ‘..it was an act of true cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow.’…

..Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. I think it’s my first ‘motion capture’ movie on the big screen, (although I’ve seen bits of Beowulf on Foxtel) and, while it’s impressively realistic in capturing movement accurately, it falls a bit flat in nearly every other respect. Having said that, the backgrounds are stupendously rich and detailed and…

.. in any case, I was on modest stipend (a bursary) that I was contracted to repay by becoming a teacher after graduating. In fact, now that I mention it, ambition is another area I’ve always been deficient in, so you put that together with a lack of vision and you might begin to understand…

..day for four weeks was one, immediate punishment for yelling out the window at the band that they should play in tune was another. Actually it wasn’t all that bad as it was the so-called ‘university intake’ with, I think, only two people in my platoon who weren’t at university. The army didn’t really want…