Matthew Hayden senses vulnerability in Zaheer Khan, the man who has dismissed him three out of four times in the current India vs Australia Test series.
Let me just repeat that: Matthew Hayden senses vulnerability in the person who keeps getting him out. Hmm.
Khan’s vulnerability goes back to 2003, apparently, when Hayden and Gillie smacked him out [...]
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Matt the Bat’s new (i.e. old) strategy for being good again
October 27, 2008 – 9:52 am
The ARIA Awards. Wow.
October 20, 2008 – 1:32 am
I learned a few things while watching the ARIAs last night:
1. I’m old now
2. I was right to dislike most pop music when I was a teenager
3. Gabriella Cilmi, of whose existence I’d caught only wafts from television and the papers, is this year’s anointed superstar. Before last night I thought maybe she was on [...]
Looking for real estate in NY?
October 14, 2008 – 3:25 pm
Architects are among the few artists who create, for me, a palpable sense that the future is here. I spotted an ad for this place while browsing the New York Times today. It’s an apartment building, and while the interior is sort of chilly and modish, the exterior cuts a most impressively disruptive figure on the New York skyline [...]
Who or what killed the Bear?
October 10, 2008 – 9:55 am
Back in March this year when Bear Stearns went bust, economists and finance journalists, not to mention investors, were justifiably shocked. This was an 85-year-old company, a leading global investment bank and major character in the shifting drama of Wall Street, and it had just been routed. JPMorgan snapped up the remnants for around $10 [...]
The Hollow Men
October 1, 2008 – 2:05 pm
So, I might be a little bit slow on this one, or perhaps I’m extremely slow, but when I came across this fine story in today’s Wall Street Journal, I learned that The Hollow Men is not only an amusing 30 minutes of political japery on the ABC each Wednesday night. It is also a [...]
Top Gear gets into third, just
September 30, 2008 – 9:49 am
This past week, American TV critics tipped a bath of tepid water over the US series of Kath & Kim. Is anyone surprised by that? I know I’m not.
Translating a show like K&K was always going to be tough. We all recognise its very Australian brand of bad taste – call it a national [...]
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