Archive for January, 2009



Jerk of the Week: Baz Luhrmann

Published on January 28, 2009

I saw Baz Luhrmann’s Australia on the weekend – it was the Australia Day weekend after all. As a consequence Baz is Jerk of the week for simply making such a crap film.
Why was the film crap? Three reasons:

Racist. Why didn’t you just tattoo “nobel savage” on the forehead of the Aboriginal Grandfather? Little known [...]


Jerk of the Week: Lleyton Hewitt

Published on January 21, 2009

What can I say, he’s always given me the shits. “Come on”, hand to the forehead looking like an emu. Cheering the opposition’s mistakes – never a good look.
Problem is he’s a nobody these days. Ranked 80th (I think), knocked out of his home tournament in the first round, but he still attracts front page [...]


I must be in a communist country

Published on January 13, 2009

Having just returned from seeing Ho Chi Minh, in the flesh literally, I thought I’d share with you this incredible piece of propaganda:
The Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh is an architectural work of great political and ideological significance, expressing the profound feelings of the entire Vietnamese people towards the Late President who is endearingly [...]