July, 2012

An NY friend passed on this parody and it is too perfect. Two faves: 1) ‘Hurt me,’ she begged, raising her skirt as she bent over my workbench. ‘Very well,’ I replied, ‘You’ve got fat ankles and no dress sense.’ 2) My whole body shuddered as she entered my Man Cave. I really must get [...]

Last night my bus stop was glowing with promise, with stardust. It was the campaign for the albums by the finalists in The Voice, the program that popstar Seal proclaimed as The Greatest Event in Australian Television History. (Channel 9′s hit-beyond-their-wildest-dreams is franchise reality, via the US/Europe, originating as The Voice of Holland.) The backlit [...]

Food is everywhere, everyday, and in the news. So on page 3 of the deadtree Age this morning we see this (buried in the online edition): Children’s advocates are claiming a victory … The Advertising Standards Bureau upheld the Cancer Council’s complaint about the [McDonald's] Happy Meal website, finding that it had breached several clauses [...]

Forget Tropfest, see tropefest. Cabin in the Woods, a compendium of horror cliches, is showing in just one cinema in each city — it’s a film for people interested in film, which is as elitist any discrete group of art aficionados. So, you know who you are — enagaged and too clever by 50%. Above: [...]