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Why Seinfeld is incompatible with iPhones

That’s it! I’ve had it up to here people! Mobile phones have ruined Seinfeld!
None of the complications, misunderstandings or disasters that ensued during the show’s nine year run would even have happened if the show was filmed today.
Seinfeld was the funniest show of the 80s and 90s, but if it ran today for the first [...]

Look At All That Choice

‘There you are,’ I screamed dementedly at him, virtually rubbing his face in the heap of white plastic, ‘now you’ve got choice. Look at all that choice. They may all be shit, but look at the choice!’ - Stephen Fry, The BBC and the Future of Broadcasting
2009 is the beginning of the golden age of Australia [...]

Calling Bullshit on Bella

I’m sorry but I’m calling bullshit on this whole pop-cultured can of beans that is the Twilight series, and the supposedly “feminist” message it epically fails to portray.
To begin with, the lead female protagonist Bella is a complete and utter bore – a blank slate, whose entire existence, thoughts, and actions revolves around her dull-as-nails, 110 year [...]

An open letter To Whoopi Goldberg

Dear Whoopi,
How are you? I am fine, thank you for asking. Though my back has been giving me a few troubles and the reception on my television is shot so I’ve resorted to re-enacting old episodes of ABC TV shows in my living room.
Anyhow, I won’t waste time with formalities.
Whoopi, I am confused.
Last week you [...]

Full Rock Spider: A Six Step Guide

In the wake of Roman Polanski’s arrest on thirty year old sex charges, there may be some confusion amongst our community, as to what constitutes a paedophile, and which lucky people are allowed to be one. You may be asking yourself – am I a paedophile? And why don’t people love me? And now [...]

Changes

2Pac never thought we’d live long enough to see a black President.
Kanye never thought he’d live long enough to see his President call him a “jack-ass“.
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It’s Limerick Day!

Today is Limerick Day boys and girls!
It is celebrated in honor of the birth of English writer Edward Lear, who is responsible for the popularity of limericks.
So in honor of limerick day:
“There once was a young lesbian from Cancun,
who took a young man up to her room,
they argued all night,
as to who had [...]

Things I have come to appreciate #2: FavouriteFive.com

One ray of positivity in what has otherwise been a fairly annoying day, is the thirty minutes that I listen to my favourite favourite podcast in the entire world – Favourite Five.com.

I love lists.

I love making lists, I love reading blogs that are about lists.

So what better than listening to a bunch of totally chilled [...]

Corporate Food Thieves

I apologise in advance for the aggression that is likely to spew out of me in the post that shall follow but I am so hopping mad right now.
No – it’s not because of the state of the economy, or some hypocritical action on the part of a local politician.
It’s not to do with poverty, [...]

Mary & Max

Mary & Max is one of the best films I’ve ever seen.
This film was a completely unexpected break from the structural norms of animated film.
Adam Elliot draws together an unapologetically bleak claymation film, tempered with sweetness, that follows the correspondence between a young Australian girl called Mary and an overweight American man named Max [...]