elon musk – Stilgherrian

19 November 202419 November 2024

The 9pm Secrets of Dinosaur Club on Ketamine with Snarky Platypus

A vast strange robotic creature only vaguely like a whale drifts through an aquatic environment. In the foreground, silhouetted against the bright blue scene, is a crowd of onlookers. — China’s aquariums utilise robotic whales to reduce the costs associated with keeping live animals. Photo: SCMP composite / Shutterstock / Weibo. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.

No, we’re not really on ketamine. But as the spring series continues we’re going sideways with a bonus episode featuring my good friend Snarky Platypus and many, many topics.

18 November 202418 November 2024

Weekly Wrap 755: Watch out for the podcasts!

Nighttime, looking from a city footpath up towards a pair of surveillance cameras in their black domes under white bodies. Across the street are the upper floors of an art deco brick office building, in front of which is another surveillance camera, this one steerable.

My week of Monday 11 to Sunday 17 November 2024 included the making of podcasts and the launching of a crowdfunding campaign. Not much client work, but some much-needed socialising. It’s all about balance, right? And talking smut with Mark Humphries is always fun.

13 November 202413 November 2024

The 9pm Gorging on Pornography with Mark Humphries

A white man in a dark suit, white shirt, and pale blue tie sits with his hands folded at the news desk. He is tall, blond, and neatly bearded, He looks sad. — Mark Humphries on the 7News Australia studio set. (Photo: Supplied )

The spring series grinds on — and I do mean grinds — with friend of the pod, satirist Mark Humphries.

10 November 202412 November 2024

Weekly Wrap 754: Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean!

Wide view across off-white sand, past sunbathers and soon-to-be swimmers, to the gently rolling waves of the Pacific Ocean. But the vast majority of the age is the sky, and apart from a line of cloud out bye the horizon, it's a clear and brilliant blue.

Apart from Certain Events in The America, which quite a few people found alarming but it wasn’t my fault, my week of Monday 4 to Sunday 10 November 2024 saw the start of a burst of podcast production. Here’s hoping I can sustain it.

03 November 202409 November 2024

Weekly Wrap 753: Another calm before a storm of work

A view across a street wet from recent rain to a vast brick block, which hides the ventilation shaft for a Metro station. Along the side, on the verandah overhanding the entrance stairs, are the words VICTORIA CROSS. Nearby, a healthy-looking London plane tree.

My week of Monday 28 October to Sunday 3 November 2024 wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped — nothing to worry about, just too much stress and too much fatigue — but productive enough for the purposes. No new podcasts, but some solid work behind the scenes. It’s good to have some calm before the storm.

28 October 202403 November 2024

Weekly Wrap 752: The travels end with podcast planning

In the middle distance, the late afternoon sunlight catches a sandstone clock tower which rises above the treeline. The view is framed on the left by a red brick building and a modern stainless steel lighting tower on which there's a traffic light (red) and a NO RIGHT TURN sign, and on the right by the silhouette of a bus.

My week of Monday 21 to Sunday 27 October 2024 began on the Gold Coast, progressed through Sydney to the Blue Mountains, and ended up back in Sydney — and as a result, the Weekly Wrap is once again running late. That said, I did some planning for the future. As opposed to planning for the past.