I just wanted to write to tell you how much I enjoyed your show, ‘Nanette.’ You don’t see a lot of genuinely incendiary stuff anymore. Incendiary and vital. Continue reading
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An Open Letter to Hannah Gadsby
Posted in Real Men, Statement of intention with tags gay pride, Hannah Gadsby, Henry Rollins, Mardi Gras, Nanette, Netflix, rainbow flag on August 4, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
2015 in review
Posted in Statement of intention on December 30, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle25000 readers in 2015! Thanks, folks!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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Solidarity
Posted in Statement of intention with tags marriage equality, rainbow flag on June 27, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
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How to Get Out of your Personal Trainer’s Agreement with Goodlife
Posted in Goodlife, Journalism, Observation, Statement of intention with tags annual leave, Armadale, ATO, Davros, Goodlife, Istanbul, Lance Williams, Proverbs of Hell, sub-contractor, superannuation, Theme Park At Its Darkest, Trade Practices Act, William Blake on June 27, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
“The fox condemns the trap, not himself.”
– William Blake,
Proverbs of Hell.
It’s been remarkably busy down here in the offices of Theme Park at Its Darkest the past few weeks, even though the entire outfit has relocated to Istanbul. One could say that there has been an unofficial mainline to the grape-vine and, as a result, the mailbox has been heaving. Continue reading
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First Blood: Goodlife Backs Down
Posted in Goodlife, Journalism, Observation, Statement of intention with tags Armadale, Arnold Schwarzenegger, blood, david Brent, Goodlife, Head of Fitness, Lance Williams, Personal Training, Predator, Ricky Gervais, Samurai, The Office on June 4, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
“The cut worm forgives the plow.”
– William Blake,
Proverbs of Hell.
I received an email today from Lance Williams, so-called ‘Head of Fitness’ at Goodlife gyms, Australia-wide. Continue reading
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Goodlife Rapes the Fitness Industry
Posted in Goodlife, Journalism, Observation, Statement of intention with tags accountants, Ardent Leisure, baphomet, Coles, Crossfit, deadlift, Doherty’s Gym, Domino's Pizza, Fitness First, freelance, Golden Glory, Goodlife, Goodlife Armadale, Goodlife Glen Iris, Goodlife Prahran, Hammer Strength, ironedge, Jim Morrson, kettlebells, Kickboxing, Kickstart, Markos Markopoulos, McDonald’s, Mercedes-Benz, occupational heath and safety, Olympia Gym, Performance Training Center, personal trainers, pilates, ronin, Samoan lawyer, sociopath, spills, squat, Street's ice cream, The Corporation, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, weight training, William Blake, Workcover, Worksafe, writer on May 29, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
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‘He who has suffered you to impose on him, knows you.’
– William Blake,
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
It is time to dump the bucket. Continue reading
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Malheureusement, je suis aussi Charlie Hebdo
Posted in Jokes, Journalism, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags cartoon, Charlie Hebdo, freedom of speech, mohammed, Paris massacre on January 14, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
2014 in review
Posted in Statement of intention with tags 2014, annual report, blog, Jarrod Boyle, Theme Park At Its Darkest, wordpress on December 30, 2014 by Jarrod BoyleThe WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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‘Are You a Satanist?’
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Albert Einstein, blasphemy, Christianity, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S Thompson, John Milton, Letters to a Satanist, Lucien Greaves, mysterious, mythology, Nikos Kazantzakis, Oklahoma Satanic Temple, Paradise Lost, religion, Salman Rushdie, Satan, Satanic Verses, sigil of Baphomet, Spanish Civil War, The Last Temptation, William Blake on December 15, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
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I feel responsible. I feel that I must do something like Flanagan, or Tolstoy. Anything less is a waste of everyone’s time – both yours, and mine. If I think about it too much, there’s not even time enough to go to work. Continue reading
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‘Are You A Satanist?’
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Alfred Kazin, Catcher in the Rye, church, Desperate Romantic, Ernest Hemingway, genius, Gustave Dore, hell, Hell's Angels, Hunter S Thompson, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy, Letters to a Satanist, Lucien Greaves, mystic, Newton, Paradise Lost, priest, Richard Flanagan, Satanic Verses, sigil of Baphomet, Spanish Civil War, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, The Viking Portable Blake, War and Peace, William Blake on December 14, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
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The last twelve to eighteen months have taught me that if you put something on the internet, everybody will see it. People rarely comment on-line, but I seem to get all kinds of bizarre responses when I see them in public, ranging from facial expressions that look like they’ve swallowed a bullfrog (and are struggling to keep it down) to, ‘What’s with all the leather gear?’ Or even, ‘Are you a Satanist?’ Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 