Hey I wrote an article for The Guardian last week with the 10 weirdest Australian TV commercials I’ve found over the years I’ve been making VHS Revue. A few people have since pointed out that what I quite reasonably assumed was a cannibal chicken in that KFC ad is actually a chicken hawk, which is […]
Bye Bye 2022
It’s been a large year. New house, new car, new phone, new baby. Pretty much compressed all of being an adult into a few months. Also wrote on the final 2 seasons of Mad as Hell before catching Covid at the wrap party. Here are some of my favourite things I got on the air […]
Mad As Hell writing highlights 2020/21
Here are some of my favourite bits I wrote for Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL (Series 11 – 13). These seasons were produced during Melbourne’s Covid-19 lockdowns and hence most of the episodes did not have a studio audience. Writing on Mad as Hell is the best job I’ve ever had. Every day is a […]
2019 (The Year)
It’s the end. Well, not really. But it is the end of the year. Also the decade. The decade that gave us both vaping and vaporwave. February 13 actually marks 10 years since I moved to Melbourne, so that’s probably the more significant milestone for me rather than the technical end of the 2010s. And […]
Richard Marsland and me
On the morning of Sunday 7 December 2008, I was sitting in my bedroom playing ‘Heroes of Might and Magic 2’ when Mum appeared at the door. She had just read some bad news in the paper. “Richard Marslands has died,” she said. Obviously, she must be mistaken. It’s ‘Marsland’ not ‘Marslands’ and besides, he’s […]
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