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“Do you want to come in the ambulance with your partner?”
“Fuck no! He’s not my partner. He’s my housemate.” Continue reading
Ice-Induced Psychotic Episode: A (More or Less) True Story
Posted in Fiction on January 30, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Wonder Woman Should Join the Lingerie Football League
Posted in Journalism, Love letters, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men, Ridiculous curiosity with tags ball gag, bondage, facebook, homophobia, Lingerie Football League, Matt Samartzis, NFL, The Atlhttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/wonder-womans-kinky-feminist-roots/380788/antic online, William Marston, Wonder Woman on January 27, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
I have come late to the Lingerie Football League. Like most things of this nature, it appeared on my Facebook feed courtesy of my good friend and arbiter of all things that ride the cutting edge of bad taste, Matt Samartzis. Continue reading
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Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses – A Novel
Posted in Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses on January 26, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“Patrick. Good afternoon.” Pat’s psychiatrist stood in the doorway wearing a white shirt, a black skirt and black, patent-leather pumps. The doorknob she rested her hand on was the same colour as the gold bracelet on her wrist. “Would you like to come through?” Continue reading
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Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses – A Novel
Posted in Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses on January 25, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“The things you’re talking about, your weight and your body hair, they’re superficial things,” said Dr Helen.
“You sound like somebody’s mum,” said Pat. “Maybe they don’t ‘really’ matter,” He supplied quotation marks with his fore-and index fingers, “But they’d sure as hell matter to a tight, blonde, fat-chested English backpacker-come-barmaid like that.” Continue reading
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Ice-Induced Psychotic Episode: A (More or Less) True Story
Posted in Fiction on January 19, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“It’s hopeless!” he said, and when he lifted his face, he was crying.
“What’s hopeless?” I asked.
“I feel so empty!” he said. “I just want it all to end!” Continue reading
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Aamer Rahman
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags Aamer Rahman, Black Islam, Charlie Hebdo, Civil rights movement, Dr Yaaba, gun laws, John Howard, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Junior, Nikos Kazantzakis, Noam Chomsky, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Last Temptation, United States, Vice Magazine on January 13, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Ahmer Rahman wrote a deeply provocative essay for ‘Vice Magazine’ on the anniversary of the Cronulla riots, attributing them to the inherent racism of the Howard Government. Continue reading
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Ice-Induced Psychotic Episode: A (More or Less) True Story
Posted in Fiction on January 7, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“Hi mate, what’s up?” I said as I answered my mobile, tracing a finger along the fresh dust that sat upon the dashboard.
“You know exactly what’s going on,” Minh hissed down the line.
He was correct; I knew exactly what was wrong. And he couldn’t have chosen a worse day for it. Continue reading
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Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses: A Novel
Posted in Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses on January 1, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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Pat began to replay Wally’s speech in his head. He lingered over the nuances of Wally’s performance, slowly shaping and altering them to the kind of performance he would have given. Continue reading
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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.
Click here to see the complete report.
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Vale Lemmy Kilmister
Posted in Music, Obituary, Real Men with tags Lemmy Kilmister, Motorhead on December 29, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Lemmy Kilmister, bass player and vocalist for Motorhead, has died aged seventy. We’d like to believe it is the cumulative result of too much of a good time.
See ya later, Lemmy, and thanks for the racket.
