“There I was, dear, grey as a badger . . . with my hearing aid turned up and my walking stick in my hand, sitting in the police station listening to the nice policeman telling me that I was being charged with possession of cannabis with the intent to supply. Well, it was rather an [...]

Cockfighting is dead in the English-speaking world, yes? Chooks ripping each other to death is just too horrible.
In Oklahoma, the sport was only outlawed in 2002, finishing off what the supporters claim is a one hundred million dollar a year business. Now a local lawmaker has a solution.
“…he has proposed that roosters wear little boxing [...]

Here’s a picture got the blues.
Anonymous, unidentified, launched from the soul’s darkness, stolen by me so you can lay your lonesome heart down on the bar at Prewar Blues.
Peter Patnaik sends out a daily track. He speaks of Blind Lemon Jefferson and the power of his lyrics.
“Here come the Judgement train
Git on board!
And [...]

This is terrible.
Seymour Hersh,
journalist, survivor,
My Lai messenger,
beast hunter to burning Babylon,
tender truth-speaker,
honours his country and his neighbours
even now…
Seymour Hersh did an interview on Democracy Now. Sometimes he fumbled but mostly he just made a stern, lucid preacher’s sense, his voice echoing from a black shaft dug into the smouldering coals of his heart.
This is [...]

Here’s a tough one, but you won’t feel so petty after reading it.

The Governor-General and a certain diurnal flautist both provide terrific fun with their photoshopping mischief.
They are in good company, like b3ta, or Worth1000, or Fark, or the sophisticated and temporarily missing photoshop tennis.
But I like to remember the collage photographers of a vanished surrealistic era, who can still inspire us with the intensity of their [...]

“A suicidal man parked his off-road vehicle on a California railway line, setting off a crash between two commuter trains that killed at least 11 people in America√≠s worst train accident in nearly six years.
The horrific collision on the outskirts of Los Angeles hurled passengers down aisles and turned carriages into smoking, twisted heaps of [...]

The Australian Blog Awards results are out. Huge thanks to Keks for doing the work.
And I am really chuffed. Thanks.
Here’s an observation – on first preferences alone, most of the leading contenders were in the race with quite low percentages, so there was a huge spread of votes for best in each category. I reckon [...]

21 years ago, on January 25th 1984, a young and svelte dinner suited Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a couple of thousand people in a mostly-filled auditorium.
The tape, long lost to public gaze, has been restored and released on the net.
I will never forget the sound of that keyboard and the weirdly bad [...]

Nature has covered the relentless splidt-hop of the cane toad into the Northern Territory.
We are waiting for the other toadskin boot to drop.