• Golf at the Olympics

    ..rampant sodomy and a political career. If there is a difference. As a consequence of a life in a chilled climate body surfing in Victoria seems almost like dipping in thermal springs. As a society we have transitioned from sports players to sports voyeurs. With the rise and rise of sport as entertainment more and…

  • Gardening part two

    ..whip like appendages slaying the peaceful denizens as they listen to the passing traffic in the early morn. They only thing that I am sure of is that they will be flowers. In fact there are a lot of surprises at the moment as one forgets where one has planted bulbs and tubers and, at…

  • Bummer

    ..writ large on it, followed by the Australian Government logo and the various logos of the sponsoring medical-type partners along the bottom – or maybe the sponsoring is on the other foot, it being a government project. I guess I’m inclined to do the poo test. My sister Ann was on my case last time…

  • Getting to the bottom

    ..and make the final report up. “Totally clear apart and medically sound apart from some wreckage from the Lusitania” Given that, prior to this procedure I have been taking peculiar and powerful drinks whose only role in life is to turn the one and a half metres of my colon into a pristine wasteland by…

  • Automation

    ..even a craze. Remember crazes? I was gardening in my garden that could pass for a jungle the other day and The Ballad of Davy Crockett infiltrated my brain and I started to sing the story of Davy Crockett so well known to every American and Australasian child of the era; Born on a mountain…

  • Cynicism

    Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. Fortunately, the musty halls of every single-sex (male) secondary educational institution that ever was, haunted as they inevitably are by variously amusing and resentful, but universally misogynist masters, taught us impressionable acne-faced boys that we could exact a subtle, but satisfying revenge on womankind, employing the very weapon our mothers…

  • Ed Nimmervoll

    Ed Nimmervoll Born Sept. 21 1947 Austria Died Oct. 10 2014 Melb. This is truly one of the hazards of surviving. I first got to know Ed in his role as rock journalist with Go-Set back in the late sixties. I don’t know how much cache being a rock journalist has these days, but in…