I spent all of January in the zero Covid paradise of Adelaide, watching the crazy events in the United States on TV as their infection and death rates skyrocketed, a violent mob of right-wing conspiracy theorists literally stormed the Capitol Building and their political system teetered on the edge of collapse. It was quite horrifying […]
End of Year Bloggy Blog 2021
Les Lawlor – Catching rats during The Depression
Hey check out this interview I found recently: Bryce Radford interviews Les Lawlor on ABC Radio in 1985 for a series called “Voices from a Vanishing Australia”. Leslie William Lawlor (1901-1994) is my great grandfather (my Mum’s Mum’s Dad). He founded Lawlor’s Pest Control in Adelaide (“Lawlor’s – the white ant people”) after catching rats […]
2020 Hindsight
Well the results are in for 2020 and, yeah not so good. I began the first day of the decade by panelling some radio on SEN for that fabulous public holiday money, then heading to the beach at Black Rock with Annika. I remember feeling a bit guilty about lying on the sand in the […]
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 […]
That’s your 2018 right there
These years go by faster and faster… Well, hope you had a good 2018. Here are the things what I did: I started the year again at the Australian Open working nights at the Rod Laver Arena audio panel. Highlights include playing “Men in Black” on the PA when the camera cut to Will Smith […]
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