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05 January 202509 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 762: Starting a new year by looking at a century-old building

A six-storey art deco building, with a commercial ground floor, two floors of offices with bay windows, and two floors of residential apartments. It's painted an unassuming olive green, and kinda needs repainting again soon. It's a bright sunny day, and the streets around it are almost deserted.

My week of Monday 30 December 2024 to Sunday 5 January 2025 represented a transition from a shit year to a year which may be more shit or may be less shit. Either way, we made a podcast about the year that has been, and a bingo card for the year which is to come.

05 January 202531 December 2025

Bingo Card 2025: Which of these things will happen?

Illustrative stock imagery of a bingo card and bingo player stamps, with an inset image of a random platypus.

Snarky Platypus and I have created this bingo card for 2025 listing 25 distinctly possible things. We also list the suggestions which didn’t make it.

30 December 202401 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 761: What if your life was a pie?

On a grey city footpath someone has discarded a meat pie, but it can barely be seen beneath a frantic milling flock of around 22 grey feral pigeons.

Monday 23 to Sunday 29 December 2024 was my last full week for the year. I was wondering what photo to use for this final Weekly Wrap, and then Fate provided exactly what I needed. This discarded pie represents your world, Good People. Peck peck peck.

22 December 202430 December 2024

Weekly Wrap 760: Two podcasts, and for some reason a pub

A view across a city intersection on a rainy day. In the centre of the frame is the Great Southern Hotel, Sydney, a five-storey red-brick Art Deco construction nestled between an modern glass office building and a narrow Victorian-era four-storey business building. Two tram tracks run from behind the viewer through the intersection and to the right.

During my week of Monday 16 to Sunday 22 December 2024 I managed to knock off two podcast episodes, a newsletter, and a bunch of planning, despite suffering from a mild cold. I’m so pleased with myself that I’m posting a photo of a pub from five years ago.

22 December 202422 December 2024

The 9pm Weeds of Disappointment with David F Porteous

David F Porteous, or perhaps his AI avatar, prepares for yet another OnlyFans performance. (Photo: Supplied )

Our first special guest in the summer series is Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous, and we�re going to talk about everything that happened in 2024. Every single thing.

16 December 202420 December 2024

Weekly Wrap 759: Am I the perfect parrot perch, perchance?

A male Australian king parrot, a medium-sized bird with a bright red head and belly with back and wings in various shades of green. He is standing on a man's left hand, the palm of which holds a selection of seeds to eat.

During my week of Monday 9 to Sunday 15 December 2024 a certain king parrot decided that I am now his feeding perch. I finally wrapped up the spring series of The 9pm Edict podcast. And my injuries continued to heal quite quickly. I’ll definitely tell you more about them soon.