tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31875632009-05-30T14:18:38.183+10:00Five to seven minutes of adequate<br>lunchbreak reading<br><br> By <a href="http://glennpeters.blogspot.com">Glenn Peters</a>Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.comBlogger571125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-51975075905366522442009-03-17T22:05:00.003+11:002009-03-17T23:07:14.166+11:00

“He believes many people are still captured by the white-picket view of a home, the Neighbours and Kath and Kim model of suburban living.” (In The Dock, The Age, 17/3)And there you have it, in one icecream headache inducing sentence, an insult and reason why I would never live in that windswept dive, a place made by men and women who don’t like people but love investment. A place as much a

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Mickey Rourke is in it.Amazing inspirational hair metal every time Mickey Rourke is in his pickup truck even in the plaintive moments.Wrestling fans. Freaks and creeps. All fat. Some midgets and wheelchair bound.Mickey Rourke is in it.There's a scene where Mickey Rourke goes shopping for op shop clothes for his daughter. Hilarious. Rocky Bulboa/Adrienne style hilarious.Blood. Plenty of

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Still recovering from hiring The Kite Runner last weekend. Only really liked the slingshot scene so here's Rufus Hussey, the best gawdamn slingshotter who ever lived.

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This past year, a record breaking, 14 of the top 25 songs played on my ipod are by Tom Waits. So first, here's 2008's top ten including Tom's songs.1. Lonely - Tom Waits2. Grapefruit Moon - Tom Waits3. Sunswept Sunday - Duke Ellington 4. Blue - The Jayhawks5. Head Full Of Steam - The Go-Betweens6. Lullabye For Christie - Dirty Three7. Train Song - Tom Waits8. Innocent When You Dream - Tom Waits9

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I don't know too many contemporary comic artists but I do know Chris Ware.From his New Yorker covers to his Quimby the Mouse books, I've loved everything I've seen him do.Here he is animating a story on the television version of the wonderful, This American Life.Okay, the video box is a little wide for the column but I reckon it plays better that way.

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Who doesn't LOVE this?Performed by The Pointer Sisters and first aired on Sesame Street in 1976.

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Often while listening to music I close my eyes and imagine if it was me singing said song to a fervently attentive audience at The Continental (now a footballers' haunt).I'd give one of me balls to skat like Kurt Elling, tap dance like the Nicholas brothers, finger pick like Matt Walker, croon like Tom Waits or play and sing Big Star's Watch the Sunrise live.Australian Idol contestant, Wes Carr

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Dopeness by genius hip hop people, Plastic Little.

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I've watched this ten times today. I love Tippa Irie's Reggie Hollis from The Bill accent.And his silly little dance...Wow.

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Here's a taster from my new recipes, food, drink and celebrity chef watching blog, Om Nom Nom Nom Nom.When killjoy nutritionist Rosemary Stanton saw me about to tuck into this fried scallop stuffed hamburger with the lot, she tried to punch me in the man breast. Because her punching bones weren't ready for action after the transplant with the punching bones of a retired fighting cock, Rosemary's

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This year I coached the wonderful Melbourne Magpies who played in the Reclink (Choir of Hard Knocks people), football league for disadvantaged footballers.We only lost the B Grade Grand Final by a couple kicks in the last minutes against Sacred Heart Mission who had beaten us earlier in the year by 20 goals.Here's my coach's report which appeared in this year's Grand Final footy record.From a

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The Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Five of the most gorgeous minutes ever filmed.Sad day.Ripper bloke.

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No, really.Katie Couric is gobsmacked.And then she tries foriegn policy...Please tell me this isn't real.

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Ladies and gentlemen, please charge your glasses...Quarterbrain's first question. "Tell us about your childhood."I'm bored by the interview already. Hold on, there's a story about some teammates who died on the field. Thanks Quarterbrain. Bring back the trauma. He's sad now.Gary Ablett looks a bit miffed. Poor bastard. Adam Cooney is sorta funny. He's thirsty. "I need this," while taking

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Seven hours in and only three rounds to go. Black on 23, four ahead of Richo.Round 19 and Steven Milne's face puffs up like one of those fish and our Prime Minister claps like a simpleton. Brent Harvey is on 17 now. Cooney on 21! Black no votes. They played against each other. Ableeeettt on 22! He's back. He might get it. I'm exciterated. RICHO ON 22 VOTES!! GO RICHO!!!Round 21. This is

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Richo could win this. No seriously.Round 18: Didak and Shaw out for the rest of the season. A tragedy. I love Alan like a brother. Pavlich creeping up at 17. Buddy at 17. Richo has left his table. He should have got votes that game against Geelong.Round 19 and we killed St Kilda dead. I can't remember who played well that game. I was too sad about Alan. Harry and Leon get votes. Yay

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All the showbag contents have been eaten and I'm getting edgy. Round 15 montage and we won't see votes from Ablett for a few weeks. Pendles gets his 4th vote. That's what happens if you're not prepared to run hard and make hard decisions etc. Geelong players stealing votes from each other. Simon Black clear leader by four. He will win. Round 16. None of the favorites near it. No votes for

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The Robert Harvey tribute has hit its ninth hour. There's a guy playing sax and Kate Ceberano singing Oh When The Saints. Also The Bloods coach (my other team and the team Harvey will play for next year with any luck), Jamie Shanahan is there with a lot of old blokes to welcome him on stage for what will be the most enduring trial of his career... an interview with Steve Quarterbrain. At last a

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Michael Voss is giving a speech about Robert Harvey so click here for a tribute to everybody's favorite number 35.

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Can I just have half an hour in a locked room with that channel ten voiceover guy? You know the one. He opens the coverage with something like, "Two gladiatorial curmudgeons preside over 46 finely crafted manbeasts in an epic contest rivaling that of the famous battle between giant immortal Typhon and the black fearful eyed Echidne blah blah blah."I want to kill him.Until he is dead.Round 13

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Best Brownlow get-up ever.Round ten. Dane Swan gets three votes, so does Cooney and Black. Black in the lead.Round 11 and Judd should get the votes and so should Ablett. Ablett does but so does Black. He might win this. Judd only gets two votes and is 13 off the lead. Tarkyn Lockyer gets a best on ground. Huh? How did that happen?Round 12. We're racing through so we can have another

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I'll leave the caption to youse. Click the comment thingy down there.... See more here.Montage eight. Something about how the game belongs to all of us. Just as I spew, Luke Darcy decides to read a speech about an old bloke who works for Footscray as their property steward, Eddie Walsh. And now for a thing about an old lady who's been working for the Cobden Footy Club for the last 873 years,

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Round seven highlights include Wannameari sic kicking goals, Juddy getting hit at West Coast and Richmond losing in a tight one. Awesome.Richo gets two votes and he's in the lead with 12! Adam Cooney looks thrilled to be there. Mad Monday has been very long today it looks.Round eight highlights inclde Cance Bateman dacking an opposition player. Scallywag.Ablett has only eight votes and so far

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I just got a text message with the incorrect claim that Adrian Anderson is my boyfriend.Back from a break and we see an interview with Gary Ablett Jr when he was 14. Neil Cordy asks a stumper and gets:"Payin' out my old man. I just ignore them and get on with the game."Best kid ever.Round 5 footage and we see the poos and wees ridiculous white and brown bird away strip.Medhurst gets three votes

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