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  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #22

    I don’t remember who I was with, but I know there were three of us. We were standing on the median strip on the Princes Highway, Tempe, facing east. Behind us northbound traffic was flowing constantly and the south bound in front of us was doing the same. Probably should have walked down to the…

  • IT AINT WHAT YOU DO, IT’S THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT: Movie Musings #11

    ***SPOILER ALERT*** Both films use the same names for Tom, Marge and Freddy. In Purple Noon, Marge’s carefree partner is named Phillipe. In The Talented Mr. Ripley he is named Dickie. I will refer to this character as Phillipe for both films for simplicity’s sake. I have not read the book, so I will not…

  • WE NEED TO DIG A LITTLE DEEPER: The Clock is Ticking

    “We’re all gunna die!” someone screams in a crowded supermarket. People’s ears prick up and they start attentively scanning their surroundings. “We’re all doomed!” comes the voice again. Some people feel that spike of adrenaline and become hypervigilant, causing them to hit the deck or rush for the exit. A few ignore it or laugh…

  • THE STORY SO FAR: Rise of the Tycoons #18

    If my amateur calculations are correct, the Zhou Dynasty in ancient China was entering its twilight years when Alexander the Great was conquering the world; a world in which China did not exist apparently. The Qin Dynasty would rise and fall; and be replaced by the Han Dynasty, all while Ancient Greece was the centre…

  • MUSINGS ON THE JOB ABOUT THE JOB: Someone Has to do It

    “Monday’s Experts Always know what’s best Always tell you what you should’ve done Monday’s Experts Always know what’s cooking How the game was lost and how it could’ve been won” Weddings Parties Anything 1993 “Management is so fucken stupid here.” “Our supervisor couldn’t organise a fuck in a brothel.” I reckon it would be impossible…

  • WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE: What The Fuck is an Information Superhighway?

    I mentioned in an earlier post how cut off generation Xers were in Australia regarding sports and martial arts. Well, the same goes for pretty much all information. The library was not high on our list of places to be, and the Dewey Decimal System was like a foreign language. As I also mentioned in…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: You Gotta Start Somewhere #2

    Joe just secured a contract with a national retail chain. Demand for his chairs has now risen sharply! Not only will they take any surplus he has now, they can also easily absorb as many as Joe and #2 can turn out from now on. It’s time for our entrepreneur to do some calculations. Joe…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #21

    We were staying in a caravan on the beach down at Coledale. Earlier in the day when we arrived, I had noticed what looked like a cave up one end of the beach. After a night of drinking and debauchery at a pub in Thirroul we had all returned to the caravan. Pot was on…

  • SPOILER ALERT WOULD BE NICE: Movie Musings #11

    ***Here’s Your One*** The rumour was that this movie had one of the greatest twists ever! Big claim. Unfortunately, I will never know. Despite being a card-carrying film fanatic, I have not ever been very good at picking ‘whodunit’ and any other plot twists. I was not even looking for the real Keyser Soze in…

  • You Want Answers? We’ve Got ‘Em: RISE OF THE TYCOONS MEETS WE NEED TO DIG A LITTLE BIT DEEPER

    First was nothingness…I can only assume, and then we’re born – Pow! ‘Welcome to the world’. No say in the matter whatsoever – How rude! There I was blissfully unaware of anything at all and now I’m here covered in blood and slime, having to breathe on my own – this is bullshit. Ouch, they…