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
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
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
NME have celebrated their 60th birthday by compiling a list of the 100 greatest tracks of the magazine’s lifetime. Continue reading
I have been published alongside long-time associate and all-round literary heavyweight, Rodney Hall, in The Review of Australian Fiction.
To imbibe the fruits of our genius, go here:
http://reviewofaustralianfiction.com/
…thanks!
I went into this book hoping for a Raging Bull story (I’m referring, of course, to Martin Scorsese’s film about the boxer, Jake La Motta). That said, I was expecting a fairly blunt and simplistic tool designed to resuscitate Wayne’s media career. I was disappointed on the one hand, confirmed on the other, but nonetheless, held in the grip of the tale. Continue reading
Agatha hates the way she looks. There’s the semblance of beauty, but it’s all come out wrong. Not like her mother. When her mother was young she was a flight attendant and a model as well. Apparently, she used to eat raw mince-meat to keep her weight down. Continue reading
