... wore plastic dummies around your neck, the bigger and more luminous the better. You remember playing on merry go rounds...at the play ground. You always wanted to send in a tape to America's (australias but whatever) Funniest Home Videos... but never taped anything funny. You played and or collected "Pogs". You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books. You had a ...
In a couple of weeks, it will be the 20th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre. A quick history lesson for those who havent heard of it - On December 6th, 1989, Marc Lépine murdered 14 women and injured 4 men and 10 women at an engineering school called École Polytechnique de Montréal. Lépine, the son of a mysonginistic father, had long complained about women moving into non-...
Ned Kelly skull 'find' could solve one of Australia's great mysteries Villagers confine rare turtle, offer prayers Surf's up! Hawaiian sea turtles take to the waves WITCH HUNTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN AFRICA And the ugliest people are... Busted For 911 Phone Sex Funeral fair opens door to eco-friendly exits Could you live in this English pile? Breakthrough that could ...
At the Brisbane Times , Siobhan McHugh has an article ( "How the Irish rose above Australia's social apartheid" ) that makes me wonder at how the Irish diasporas in Canada and Australia have encountered such widely differing fates. Anglo-Celtic" has become a glib collective term for non-indigenous Old Australia — a polite way of saying White Australia before the wogs. But it is an insidious ...
... was something about Robert Pattinson that I couldn’t go past,” says Smith. “We got the shoot from the US edition and an exclusive interview with him on set in Italy, and of course the issue is smartly timed around the time the second (Twilight) film comes out.” Source: http://thinkingofrob.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/robert-pattinson-to-be-cover-boy-for-gq-australias-10th-anniversary-issue/
это я стащила у agent_marge Огромное спасибо. Порадовала :) После Стюзан Бойл пожалуй это второе такое для меня удивительное открытие. 15 летний мальчик - а голосина. Паволотти может начинать нервно курить. Первое выступление на отборочном туре Audition 2009 Australias Got Talent "Аллилуйя" в финале:
Good to see discussion of Oz dust storms in the NY Times . [See my post dreamwidth for background] Originally posted at http://qamar.dreamwidth.org/621045.html
Journalist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Claire Halliday (pictured), was asked to write a book on Australians attitudes to sex. As well as providing a fascinating look inside Australias sex industry and the organisations that oppose it, Do You Want Sex With That? discusses the impact of sex in the media on our society. Sex is everywhere you look these days on billboards, television, radio, ...
Trying to estimate the right amount of trust . About the bubble of 1720s , (though calling it the “first tech bubble” may be stretching the institutions-are-technology notion a little far). About the dark side of cooperation . In defence of economics . A blog on private sector development in the developing world. A blog on the causes of the economic crisis . Results from an interview...
So Mike Layland died, apparently he was some brother of note in australias country history, fucks me i never heard of him beyond a line in a live version of a Rodney Rude song which brings me to how embarrasing that area of australian 'music' is. Rodney rude was funny at one point when you are 12 and swearing is pretty novel to your fart-joke tickled brain but growing up it leads you to facepalm ...
