Highlights from a 1992 VHS tape of “Yogi’s First Christmas”. Presented by David M. Green. Featuring: – Seven’s Family Christmas message from Mike Smithson & Dixie Marshall – Wallis Cinemas TVC with seat belts – Beyond 2000 promo with primitive CGI Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe “actors being brought back to life for the movies […]
The Adelaide Show Podcast
Had a great chat the other day with Steve Davis on The Adelaide Show Podcast. Listen to it here. We talked in depth about writing for Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell. I went into the finer details about how I wrote that Bunnings Conspiracy fake ad and discussed what makes a good ‘out of context […]
End of Year Bloggy Blog 2021
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 […]
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 […]
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