Monthly Archives: February 2008

Celebrity Heretics

photo credit: Howie_Berlin Immediately after Heath Ledger died, especially for the time that it looked more likely that it was a suicide rather than accidental death, the reactions were remarkably interesting. There was the standard fan response – tributes and the like, but there was another response that I found to be remarkably interesting. It [...]

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Good news for the faithful and faithless alike

For those of you who skip over the Richmond related posts, help is at hand. And for those of you who only visit in the hope that I’ve written something about our fearsome yellow and black warriors, I can help you too! I’ve decided that the next adventure in my blogging career is to quarantine [...]

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For your consideration

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but I wanted to recommend a great blog. Jess (famous in these parts for things like that engagement story video, as well as being one of Bec’s bridesmaids) is a film student who writes great film reviews at Gold Stars (goldstars.wordpress.com). She’s not always right (she [...]

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Brought to you by the letter “V”

Ever since I saw the movie with Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving (possibly the most underrated Australian actor in the business, I’ve had a bit of a “thing” about “V for Vendetta”. So after I made some noises about the graphic novel when we saw it at Borders on our honeymoon, the lovely Rebecca duly [...]

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A Timely Reminder

I thought the cartoon on the right was interesting, given the recent excitement over on Bec’s blog. (Cartoon from xkcd)

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