Aug
24
Cablog says bye bye . . . .
August 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment
A few days ago I discovered that cablog.com.au had ceased blogging. It was run by Sydney cabbie Adrian Neyland and was such a great example of what a blog is all about (niche subject, good writing, informative, entertaining) that I even featured it in as one of the blogs in the BBC News Superpower season. If memory serves Adrian […]
Aug
2
RIP Dennis Farina
August 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment
RIP Dennis Farina, as usual these days I’m way late on my entertainment news and it was a shock to see he’d died. Farina was a pleasurable sight on screen and one of those actors who give you that safe feeling where you know what you’re going to get and invariably it was entertaining. He […]
Aug
2
Rediscovered track of the month: Aug ’13
August 2, 2013 | 3 Comments
The Cult — She Sells Sanctuary
Jul
6
Rediscovered track of the month: Jul ’13
July 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Blondie – Dreaming
Jun
4
Rediscovered track of the month: Jun ’13
June 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment
AC/DC, Whole Lotta Rosie
May
15
Ryan Fogle, Wigs & Modern spying
May 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Much talk in the media today about how Ryan Fogle, the captured CIA spy in Russia, was a rank amateur because — amongst other things — he was wearing a daft wig. The whole embarrassing affair seems almost perfectly timed for publication of Jeremy Scahill’s new book “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield”. In […]
May
3
Rediscovered track of the month: May ’13
May 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment
In memory of the brilliant Chrissy Amphlett . . . Pleasure & Pain, The Divinyls
Apr
5
Bitcoin — The New Believers
April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The British current affairs programme Newsnight on BBC television recently aired a report about the woes of Cyprus. Elderly sun tanned citizens clawed futilely at the barren cash machines while eager reporters goaded them on with microphones. It was a day or so before the island’s banks — or what’s left of them — were […]