Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!
Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created some bingo cards for 2024. Two sets of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re now at the end of the year, so let’s see how we went.
Continue reading “The 9pm Full-time Bingo Card Update 2024 with Snarky Platypus”
It’s a bonus, or at least unfunded, summer series episode with guest Snarky Platypus. This long and rambling conversation was recorded on Boxing Day 2023, which explains many things.
Continue reading “The 9pm Henry Kissinger Hamageddon with Snarky Platypus”
My week of Monday 18 to Sunday 24 December 2023 was a suitably productive wind-down for the 2023 working year. A fun quiz. An interesting podcast. The usual Friday blog post. And positioning myself for a Christmas period of cat-sitting down in Sydney.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 708: I transform myself for Christmas with a quiz and a podcast and two uncooperative cats, plus some AI”
The summer series takes a disturbing turn this week with one of our favourite guests, author and columnist John Birmingham — who admits to eating something that I simply do not understand.
Continue reading “The 9pm Chia Seed Protein Pudding with John Birmingham”
Happy Christmas! My week of Monday 19 to Sunday 25 December 2022 was productive, with a lovely podcast, a regular blog post, a video livestream, and more. But then it was the Christmas weekend and, well, there’s a photograph of a Bloody Mary on this page. You can join the dots.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 656: It’s Christmas, but not before getting some work done”
My week of Monday 20 to Sunday 26 December 2021 was spent in Ashfield in Sydney, and it was remarkably unproductive. As I explained last week, it was the final few days before Christmas, and everyone had pretty much given up anyway. But do read on.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 604: Halfway to a new and potentially better year, or a worse one”