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  • MY TROUBLE WITH GRAN TORINO (2008): Movie Musings #4

    ***SPOILER ALERT*** I will begin with a question: Do you think that this film has a happy or at least a fulfilling ending? Every person I have asked usually says yes. Call me a jaded film buff, but I disagree. The final scene sees Thao Vang joyfully driving Walt’s prized Gran Torino – all has…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: I Need to Speak to The Person in Charge

    The people on the shop floor know they are just numbers, expendable numbers. They look at their supervisors (team leaders, leading hands or whatever other bullshit title) and know that those Schmoes are standing on even thinner ice. No sympathy for them of course, they took the step up, they enforce the shitty rules –…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #9

    As kids, Wayne and I joined forces to collect cans for cash, and we were always on the lookout for new hunting grounds. One day while riding on a train I noticed how many cans were strewn across the tracks. People were obviously just tossing their empties out the window. So, I came up with…

  • THE OPPORTUNISTS START GETTING THEIR HOOKS IN: Rise of the Tycoons #7

    Skip forward a handful of generations and some of the booming tribes will have grown into villages. They would be working out the most efficient use of their labour power and ensuring the necessary know-how gets passed along to the next generation. The better they are at this the more fruitful their harvest. Security was…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: We’re up to Our Necks in it

    Introduction I’m sure you are aware of this thing called ‘The System’. The term gets lobbed around often enough. Whatever you reckon it is, there’s no doubt we are all stuck in it, and apart from becoming a hermit or a corpse, there seems to be no escape. So, what the fuck is IT? And…

  • I THINK I JUST WITNESSED ONE OF THE GREATEST NOBLE SACRIFICES IN A MOVIE EVER!: Movie Musings #3

    GODZILLA (1954) ***SPOILER ALERT*** (If the title didn’t already give it away. Sorry) Without a doubt the most recognizable Kaiju (strange beast) in history. Godzilla was the embodiment of man’s destructive tendencies. A monstrous creature born out of hydrogen bomb testing, it is a devastating representation of the apocalyptic potential of nuclear weapons. I may…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #8

    On another visit to the National park, daytime this time, we were rowing a boat around the river. You often found ropes tied to trees all along these rivers. It was great fun to climb up to them and swing into the water. We found one such rope, so we tied our boat to a…

  • THE COMMERCIALISATION OF CHRISTMAS: 2 SANTA FILMS 40 YEARS APART: Movie Musings #2

    The later film was made 40 years ago from today what’s more! That film was called “Santa Clause: The Movie” (1985). It begins with an origin story, but the drama takes place in the present – or that present – the present time the movie was released – 1985! The other film was titled “Miracle…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #7

    Walking down to Tempe reserve to participate in another night of underage drinking beer and sharing stories with our mates; Wayne and I had just withdrawn our share of the beer money from the service station on the Princes Highway. We were standing on the median waiting for a part in the traffic. Our timing…

  • THE SEEDS OF DECAY: Rise of the Tycoons #6

    Now we enter the infancy of the monstrosity we live in today. Enjoy as we watch the ancient ancestors of the elites take their baby steps. There was no textbook available on ‘how to fuck-over your peers by creating an air of superiority’. These OGs were literally beating a new path from scratch. Running on…