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Commentator

Posted in Journalism, Reading with tags e.e. cummings, lifestyle trainers on March 21, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

I attended the ‘Lifestyle Trainers’ exhibition at Birrarung Marr on the banks of the Yarra yesterday. It was an exhibition to publicise the health and fitness website I have been writing for as an ‘expert commentator’. It tickles my ego to be billed as a commentator, probably because the implication is that I am currently paid to give my opinion. Thinking about this pricks a small space somewhere inside me, which I suspect if very close to whichever metaphysical organ can be described as my conscience; by way of justification or explanation of the commentator tag, I offer something chanced upon again the other day in one of my most prized possessions, The Collected Works of e.e. cummings. Continue reading →

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Real Men #5: The Fukushima 50

Posted in Real Men on March 19, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

A small crew of self-appointed workers have chosen to stay behind at the stricken Fukushima #1 nuclear power-station in Japan. They are attempting to control the fires in reactors 1, 2 and 3, placing themsleves in the path of dire risk in order to try and prevent what some have called an imminent apocalypse.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/heroic-50-sent-in-to-save-millions-20110316-1bxgw.html