Q: 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 Boyle
I 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
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Lawyer Joke
Posted in Jokes on July 15, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleQ: What do you throw to a drowning lawyer?
A: His partners.
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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 Boyle
John 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
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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 Boyle
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
– Mark Twain
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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
Ernest Borgnine, who co-starred alongside William Holden in Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, has died of kidney failure, aged 95.
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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 