‘News’ Archives
A champion tantrum
Have you ever been so cranky that you just wanted to throw shit? Or smash stuff? Or just generally behave like an out of control temper tantrum throwing two year old? Well that's how I reckon Marcos Baghdatis was feeling right after he was beaten [...]
Blue IV Z
So Beyonce and Jay-Z had their baby. It was a girl. In a middle finger to colour stereotyping they called it Blue. Blue Ivy. That's because some little upstart singer stole their first choice, Pink. The IV bit is from the couples love of the [...]
The prince, all those millions and racehorses
A few years ago I had to get a strappers licence. For those of you who do n't know what a strapper is, I'll explain. Strappers are the people who do the grunt work of looking after racehorses. They're the people you see leading the horse around at [...]
Give us a kiss
This is from my weekly Gen X Girl column that appears in the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy magazine. Like a pre-teen girl to Justin Bieber, so is Julia Gillard to Barack Obama. That’s the only comparison I can make after last week’s [...]
Death row prisoner wrecks the whole last meal tradition
A prisoner on death row getting his requested last meal is just one of those things. Not anymore apparently as Texan Laurence Brewer's request was just too much for a US Senator prompting a cranky letter and having a kibosh put on the whole last [...]
Feng shui your meth lab
According to Kathleen Noonan's column in this week's Courier Mail the suburbs are a virtual plethora of meth labs. Apparently it's much easier to disguise a meth lab in a suburban house. They make for good quiet neighbours other than that whole [...]
Hendra virus–can someone think of a new name please
The newspapers and TV headlines are full of my suburb's name. Not for anything good like increasing property prices, but rather for the killer disease that is identified by it--Hendra Virus. I think it's time for a new name like maybe Bat [...]
Diana would be 50 today–how time flies
Happy 50th birthday Princess Diana. Well happy 50th birthday if you were still alive. Newsweek has gone all out with a creepy cover to commemorate the big day. And no you're not seeing dead people in the Newsweek photo. They really have [...]
I’m so sick of being told what to do
I was in the bottle shop the other day when I watched a girl being chastised by the bottle shop attendant for passing her father a bottle of wine to put in a box. She just passed it to him mind, she was being helpful. She wasn't drinking it, she [...]
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