Ernest Borgnine, who co-starred alongside William Holden in Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, has died of kidney failure, aged 95.
Archive for July, 2012
Ernest Borgnine RIP
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Ernest Borgnine, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, William Holden on July 9, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Anthony 'The Hitman' Vella
Posted in Kickboxing with tags Adam Strong, Anthony Foy, Anthony Vella, Ben Lane, Bob Jones, Frank Deblaise, Hitman Muay Thai, Jamie Stamp, John Scida, Kickboxing, Louie Isofidis, Muay Thai, Oliver Olsen, Paul 'Hurricane' Briggs, Paul Demicoli, Ramon Dekkers, Richard Walsh, WKA, Zen Do Kai on July 8, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Anthony ‘The Hitman’ Vella was one of the outstanding fighters of early Australian Muay Thai. He had twenty fights for nineteen wins; his only loss coming via injury while fighting Paul ‘The Hurricane’ Briggs for a super-middleweight world title. Before I met him, I walked past this picture every day on my way into the gym. Continue reading
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Tramsurance
Posted in Journalism, Observation with tags Daniel Hoare, fare evasion, Ian Dobbs, melbourne architecture, Metro, public transport system, public transport users, Public Transport Victoria, Tokyo public transport, Tom Pisel, Tramsurance on July 6, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Tramsurance, the brain child of University of Melbourne architecture student Tom Pisel, is a public fund to compensate fare evaders when they are stung for travelling without a ticket.
Needless to say, it is not designed to encourage fare evasion; rather, it is intended as a protest against the woeful state of public transport in Victoria. Continue reading
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Corporate Scum
Posted in Journalism, Observation with tags corporations, facebook, Fox News, Monsanto, Snopes, Toxic milk on July 6, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The above image is currently doing the rounds on Facebook. Apparently, the site ‘Snopes’, subtitled ‘Rumor Has It’, says the claim is undetermined as either true or false. The two studies which published the info can be viewed at
http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/monsantocorn.asp Continue reading
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Top Ten Songs
Posted in Music, Observation with tags ACDC, Appetite for Destruction, Bon Scott, Bruce Dickinson, Chris Robinson, Disciple, Exile on Main Street, Guns and Roses, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Henry Rollins, Iron Maiden, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Little Wing, Lou Reed Margot Timmins, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Motorhead, Nirvana, NME, Poison Idea, Queens of the Stone Age, Slayer, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Ace of Spades, The Black Crowes, The Cowboy Junkies, The End of Silence, The Gaslight Anthem, The New York Dolls, The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Two Lane Blacktop, War Ensemble, Welcome to the Jungle on July 3, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
NME have celebrated their 60th birthday by compiling a list of the 100 greatest tracks of the magazine’s lifetime. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 