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Other than having a grown-up job (at least if you squint your eyes a little), I lack many of the key markers of adulthood: no car, no stable coupling, no kids, no mortgage. So when I think about things…
So I shelled out the fifty or so dollars to see Margaret Cho’s show “Mother” during the Melbourne Comedy Festival. After a little under 50 minutes of Cho-time, the Capitol Theatre lights came up - almost…
Quoted in one of the many tributes following his recent death was film critic Roger Ebert’s remark: “I have seen untold numbers of movies and forgotten most of them…” I haven’t seen untold numbers of films…
The formula for peddling luxury items has always been simple: establish a need by pointing to a deficiency and then proffering a solution. Ta daa: marketing 101. Initially the Dove differential began as…
Aside from seeing it at the drive-in - in bad weather albeit with good company – I only remember two things about The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, a fortnight on: The use of the song Abracadabra (“I wanna…
When everybody was reading 50 Shades of Grey, I resisted: a) if I’m seeking prose to masturbate to, I don’t need a whole novel, and b) from my sketchy knowledge of the plot I’m pretty sure that I’ve been…
The Rubensque bloke dressed as pharaoh - who stripped down to his nipple tassells and gold G-string - was my takeaway moment from the Victorian finals of Miss Burlesque 2013. I was however, attending not…
I’m always vaguely suspicious of people who don’t have stories. Folks who, when you ask them what they’ve been up to, offer a bit of a shrug, a vague “not much”. This does not make good conversation. I…
Carb-love and vegetarianism might have seen me pay more attention to the Domino’s story than had a burger chain been involved, but my real interest lies in the “anticlimax”. For the past week, TV ads have…
[Warning! Warning! This article contains an - albeit predictable - spoiler] Films are too often dubbed contemporary, modern. Of the Zeitgeist, at the vanguard. Normally I’d roll my eyes at such a description…