Category: Mental Notes

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Continue reading “Mental Notes: April 2005”

MELBOURNE–Hello from Melbourne! Those damn flying Webmonkeys have again attached their claws to me and I have left Sydney for a year here managing the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games soon-to-be collection of sites and other online entities. More on all that as I get a grip on it all myself. Apologies in advance for being pedestrian replying to mail, still settling in. Later…

SYDNEY–Hunter S. Thompson. New Journalism’s Dark Prince. Dead. Don’t get me wrong, I love the the big T, but if I get any more junk from a self-important baby boomer such as “bringing to a sober close an era of print journalism rooted in the raucous 1960s”, I’ll go postal. He indeed changed j’ism forever. And that’s my two cents.

SYDNEY–I think I can speak for everyone of the emotional exhaustion of the past few days following the Indian Ocean tsunamis. At work, going through wire photos and writing stories which, 10 minutes later, you have to update the death toll upward in the thousands, is frickin’ painful. Make sure you get behind your local aid organizations and donate your xmas goodies. Get our NYE party info here. And… word just in from Rich and Rachel in India, hit by the tsunami, **but safe**, follows.

Hi there

I just wanted everyone to know that Richard and I are safe and well and were fortunate enough to be in Goa, on the SW coast of India when the tidal waves hit parts of the country yesterday morning.

Continue reading “Mental Notes: December 2004”

SYDNEY–Okay you freaks, who’s coming to Sydders for New Year’s Eve at my place? Share the love and get into the planning by adding your movements in this item on Blowback: NYE 2005. If you haven’t tried the new search, which now brings you album titles, prices and reviews, without you particularly wanting them, this is for yooou. And get into the first pre-stallment of new photos in Back 1990s.

SYDNEY–Expect a whole lot of new material in the next few weeks as I get some SBS articles and pre-2001 pics up. If you haven’t tried the new search, which now brings you album titles, prices and reviews, without you particularly wanting them, this is for yooou. Lobster on the dishlickers on Sat night coming. Roast in the oven. Nice.

Continue reading “Mental Notes: November 2004”

From the scary shit files; see FreeInternetPress.com: Some Early Voters Say Machines Mark Incorrect Choices. Kim Griffith voted on Thursday – over and over and over. She’s among the people in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties who say they have had trouble with early voting equipment. When they have tried to vote for a particular candidate, the touch-screen system has said they voted for somebody else. More in :: full story :: below

SYDNEY–Our house on ELECTION NIGHT 2004 is DON’S PARTY… or rather, Shauna, Adam and Stephen’s housewarming party. Ya bloody mongrel. Political opinions mandatory. Knowledge of the movie, eh, assumed. If not, click this. Get on the hustings and forward this link on. We BBQ the declared opposition during the evening. And if it’s close, we’ll go postal. Also, FBI Vertigo radio shift follows at ‘full story’ below. Work is good.

SYDNEY–Can’t talk right now, gimme a bit. FBI Vertigo radio programme track fill-in listing follows.