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Why hasn’t anyone done a biopic or documentary on “The Woodies?”
Having a peak at the Australian Tennis Open this week I must have suffered some mild cognitive malfunction because I became obsessively fixated on the same thought. Why has no one done a television biopic or documentary on “The Woodies”? For anyone under 30, “The Woodies” – was the nickname given to Todd Woodbridge and…
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Let’s get some meaning and purpose into our lives before we start shoving cereal in our undies
Meaning and purpose. Those two, big, juicy, forcible words should nag the bejesus out of us Homo sapiens long before our malfunctioning mushy brains start thinking that pouring muesli into the front of your undies is a splendid way to begin the day. However, humans tend to ignore that irritating, furious ranting inside their noggins…
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As the coffee-gathering subcultures evolve, which caffeine clan do you belong to?
Around 9.27 am on most work days, a peculiar migration occurs in the Perth CBD. Thousands of office workers embark on their morning trek, driven by their maddening, libidinous desire to consume, overpriced, milky coffee. If you look closely you can see the tracks and ruts carved out of stone and concrete left by the…
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Why is our search for ever-lasting happiness post-Covid making us miserable?
The human race has one gigantic bumper sticker slapped to its rusty, rear fender which reads: “I just want to be happy”. That’s the real reason we haven’t had any first contact with aliens because any intelligent species reading that sticker is going to veer away from the planet. Humanities’ first drug of choice is…
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AI media kept generating lousy press this week and it wasn’t just Nick Cave giving bots the middle finger
And what would universities do with all the bot-captured plagiarists, given a uni I worked at regarded students cutting and pasting, large chunks of unattributed text into their work as a charming mistake?
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Are men really hilariously crap at showing any hint of vulnerability?
For some bilious blokes, there is an unwillingness to enter into any discussion about sadness, despair or hurt in the fear of their vulnerability becoming a punchline. Or simply the fear of getting punched. So males will engage in a relentless game of masculine mutual mockery in a refusal to acknowledge the inherently normal feelings…
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How I cured my chronic insomnia with CBD oil
It’s 3.33am. Again. I angrily stagger to the kitchen searching for sleeping pills and have an uncontrollable urge to punch the cat, which probably hasn’t budged for 17 hours. Insomnia is torture. A sleepless purgatory. Those barren and arduous nights where the splendours and depths of the mind are reduced to dull and useless white…
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Heaven knows I’m miserable now: My son is listening to Morrissey
When my 10-year-son asked my wife to play the Smiths song, There is a Light That Never Goes Out from the English band’s 1986 release, the Queen is Dead, I was assaulted by an overwhelming sense of parental pride. Around the same age, I was listening to Disco Duck by Rick Dees and his Cast…
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As we become more seduced by technology do books have the same power to change the trajectory of our lives?
The Idiot. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s existential beast is often misinterpreted or easily dismissed given the blunt title. The whole book sways and pivots on the protagonist and hero Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin. Dostoevsky said he wanted to depict a “completely beautiful human being” in the image of Christ himself. Myshkin is one of the most loveable, endearing,…
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