Well, that’s a quarter of the 21st Century done… Hey, anyone else feel like consequences no longer exist, apparently nothing matters any more and everything’s kinda terrible? Yeah. I think the Macquarie Dictionary made the right choice for their word of the year: ‘enshittification’. Whether it’s coffees and boxes of cereal getting smaller and more […]
VHS Revue 45 – Yogi’s First Christmas (1992)
Published in September 4th, 2023
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
Published in May 31st, 2023
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
Published in December 31st, 2021
Posted by David M. Green in Adelaide, Channel 31, Good Afternoon Adelaide, Mad As Hell, Melbourne, photos, radio, The Life of DMG, TV, VHS Revue, video
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
Published in September 13th, 2021
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 […]
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