Issue 52

..burn your effigy of choice – I would recommend Rupert Murdoch if you are of an incendiary mind. In the Northern Territory and, until this year the ACT, you could still buy fireworks perhaps because they calculated the fun versus injury equation in favour of fun. In my youth, a state that as for most…

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…

..could access the music room, which was equipped with a grand piano and comfortable looking chairs with flower print covers – it probably doubled as a lounge / reception room now that I think about it. Our grandmother was a formidable pianist and we would spend many an evening singing selections from South Pacific and…

..the easement – I think we might’ve even gone home for lunch on occasions. Our home’s proximity proved crucial in one particular incident when, in my self-appointed role as boy-with-the-tightest-belt-in-school and in the middle of a game of bar-the-door in the school yard I suddenly felt my belt snap and my shorts come dangerously close…

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..column over the years and regular readers will know it’s a love/hate thing anyway. Regulars will also know that the year drawing to a close always bothers me as my naturally sunny disposition is occluded by the clouds of general dissatisfaction with the state of Christmases past, present and future. (And I’m not a fucking…