The Dark Knight Rises is an above average-action film, and certainly enjoyable. The first thing that came to my lips was, ‘It’s not as good as the last one’, but the truth is, The Dark Knight was something entirely different from the other films in the trilogy. Continue reading
'I Am The Joker'
Posted in Film, Observation with tags Batman, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan, Ground Zero, Heath Ledger, James Holmes, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Joker on July 26, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleLawyer Joke
Posted in Jokes on July 22, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleQ: What’s the difference between a lawyer and a vulture?
A: The lawyer gets frequent flyer miles.
Close Personal Protection
Posted in Fiction with tags ambulance, AS baton, Beat It, body-guard, cockerspaniel, first aid, Glock, Michael Jackson, Stabbing, VL Commodore, Windsor knot on July 22, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleI like Mr. Gianarelli. He’s a nice guy, but anyone doing my job tonight would be nervous. Paul was late coming back from the armed cash delivery, which meant I’d have to start alone. Continue reading
Lawyer Joke
Posted in Jokes on July 15, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleQ: What do you throw to a drowning lawyer?
A: His partners.
John Pilger vs the American Psycho
Posted in Film, Observation with tags Baudrillard, Bunuel, Chuck Liddell, Colombiana, colonel kurtz, Dali, Game of Thrones, George Miller, John Pilger, La Femme Nikita, Lethal Weapon, Luc Besson, Mel Gibson, Melbourne International Film Festival, psychopath, Rampage Jackson, Ransom, Sam Peckinpah, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, Straw Dogs, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, The Hurt Locker, The New Statesman, The Patriot, The Wild Bunch, Tolstoy, UFC, violence on screen, Violent films, W.B. Yeats on July 15, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleJohn Pilger, journalist and documentarian, criticized the film [The Hurt Locker] in The New Statesman, writing that “it offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else’s country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion.” He compared the praise given to The Hurt Locker to the accolades given to 1978’s The Deer Hunter.[42] Continue reading
Recidivist Footballer
Posted in Jokes, Observation, Reading, Ridiculous curiosity with tags Australian Rules Football, Brendan Fevola, Dick Head, Football, mark twain on July 11, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleErnest Borgnine RIP
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Ernest Borgnine, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, William Holden on July 9, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleAnthony '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 BoyleAnthony ‘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
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
Corporate Scum
Posted in Journalism, Observation with tags corporations, facebook, Fox News, Monsanto, Snopes, Toxic milk on July 6, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleThe 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







