International Kickboxer Magazine, Vol. 19, No.2
Darren ‘The Riddler’ Reece has been one of the key players in Australian Muay Thai. He began as a distinguished fighter and progressed to training some of Australia’s most skilled and most popular fighters. Last issue we spoke to Eugene ‘Boom Boom’ Ekkelboom, and this issue JARROD BOYLE sat down with Chris ‘Tiger’ White to talk world titles, bronze medals, winning big in Thailand and the changing of the guard. Continue reading
When you go to see a mainstream film, you know you’re going to have to put up with certain things. Continue reading
I went to see Red Stitch Theatre’s production of The Tectonic Theatre Group’s play The Laramie Project – 10 Years’ Later on Saturday night. It is an interesting thing, going to a cultural event in Inner-City Melbourne. I’m going to put it to you like this, and in so doing, possibly reveal myself as paranoid, Continue reading
International Kickboxer Magazine, Vol.19, No.1
If there was one incident that made me wonder about people who make fighting their profession, it was the day I found myself in the shower with Alistair Overeem. Continue reading
International Kickboxer Magazine Vol.19 No.1
For a Thai boxer, Eugene’s Ekkelboom’s career started relatively late. It is, however, studded with impressive highlights. He can also lay claim to a remarkable piece of trivia; the only bone he has ever broken is his nose. Continue reading
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
http://www.theage.com.au/world/super-full-moon-to-shine-tonight-20110319-1c13c.html
Tonight will host the largest, brightest incarnation of the full moon in its 18-year cycle.
I think the title says it all, really.
Go to work, Peter Costello.
Intelligent, incisive, gutsy, and a damned good writer.
Theme Park at its Darkest 