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Smashed When someone has to get you out
Two days after… I’m in the middle of a road, standing off the smoking nose of a wrecked car with a hose ready in case it goes up.
The Eve of Distraction A toast to the New Year and the day after
“The stories you make up the next day are always better than what actually happened.” - Lester Bangs
The Sound of One Hand Clapping Sporting big business has secured $2.5 billion from the NSW Government to rebuild all of Sydney’s major stadiums. The public are not applauding.
Moore Park, Allianz Stadium, ANZ Stadium, Alan Jones, the SCG Trust… it’s a complicated game.
Farewell, Olympia Memories of a milkbar on Parramatta Road
Every childhood deserves a Boo Radley house and the Olympia Milkbar was mine...
Love Sick Intimacy and the American President
The cultural capacity for love can be lost. Donald Trump is a harbinger for this lack of empathy and intimacy, a society unable to feel.
Maybe I’m Amazed A new appreciation for Paul McCartney
Is it possible to tell a rather different story about Paul McCartney’s life after the Beatles? A story of creative endurance and often unrecognised inventiveness and influence?
Stealing Home Base The cinema alternative to ‘Netflix and chill’
Palace Cinemas slogan is “cinema reimagined”. But can the experience of attending films at a theatre be reimagined by arthouse chains like Palace and Dendy? Or has video streaming scored the last home run?
The Invisible Men Manus Island
After four years in detention these men are tired and at breaking point.
Love is in the Air 61.6%
Emotional gatherings occurred across Australia to hear the outcome of the marriage equality plebiscite.
Street Fighting Man Lanz Priestly was the leader of the Martin Place occupation by the homeless of Sydney. He’s ready for the next battle.
“Today I wonder just how different people who are renting are from people who are homeless.”
The Horses Swimming with champions
On land the rider is master and the horse is servant. But in the water with the rider up front like a bowsprit they look much more as one; it’s almost intimate.
Down By Law Julian Assange on English twats, tweets from Trump, and Hillary Clinton
“It’s about newsworthiness when we’re talking about publication, and newsworthiness is pretty much ‘of interest to the public’ not ‘of public interest’" – Julian Assange