Is it my imagination or are the Scissor Sisters a dead ringer for the band from the Muppets – Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem?

I don't know about you but I recall being deeply captivated by the characters in the Band – the cool Dr Teeth, wild and crazy Animal and totally [...]

In the last week I had the alarming experience of finding myself agreeing, in general principals, with three positions being taken by Federal Liberal politicians. First, and most disturbing, was agreeing with Amanda Vanstone over Taj Aldin Alhilali comments on Egyptian morning television over Australia. Basically if you don't like the countries [...]

I joked in the last few days, since the arrival of the Birthday Wii, that I was going to be seen jumping around my living room, semi-naked at 4 in the morning playing games, sweating my arse off. It turned out to [...]

With some irony considering my previous post from 6 am this morning, guess what arrived today.

My Christmas present from Mr Special, after a little drama with store.

Because there were none in stock when Mr S went to buy it, and because he was sure (correctly) it was a great [...]

This Christmas I was given a Wii.  Well actually because there are none to be had for love or money, I was given a gift card FOR a Wii. So ever since Christmas I have been stalking the stores trying to find one. They have been highly Elvis like – constantly rumored to have just [...]

To my amazement I am finding a strand lack of nausea for another Liberal Party Minister.

This time its Ian Campbell, Minster for the Environment – and his youthful ward Greg Hunt, and the topic is Japanese Scientific Whaling.

I can't for a second see the annual Japanese Cetacean slaughter as anything other [...]

Not the most pleasant thing to realise, but I almost have to agree with Senator Vanstone – if Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly doesn't like Australia, he should bugger off.

I am not a White Australia Policy advocate, but after a stint in Asia I came back with MUCH less [...]

With immaculate timing, worthy of the monarch Herself, "The Queen", new film from Stephen Frears has been released here in Australia right on the heels of the release of the Stevens Report . The film examines closely the week between the death of Diana Spencer in Paris and her [...]

Here in Australia the weather is well and truly freaking out. A week before Christmas here in Melbourne the temperature was around 32°  every day for a week, and in Melbourne that means dry heat. A week later and it was 18° and snowing in the Victorian High Country.

At Christmas!

Now for your northern [...]

I thought it would be worth while to reflect a little on the past year. I set myself a few goals for 2006 so lets have a look at how I did.

First and foremost

> Be happier

Definitely!

After the appallingly unhappy years of 2004 & 2005, '06 has been [...]