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:
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…thanks!
Man's Search for Meaning
Posted in Reading with tags Concentration Camps, Gregory David Roberts, Logotherapy, Man's Search for Meaning, Nietzche, Shantaram, Tolstoy, Victor Frankl, War and Peace on June 24, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Wayne Carey: The Truth Hurts
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Reading with tags AFL football, Andrew Denton, Anthony Stevens, Barwon Prison, Bill Schwartz, Brisbane Bears, Casino, Charles Happell, Cocaine, Enough Rope, James Toback, Jason Akermanis, Joe Pesci, Kangaroos Football Club, Kate Nielsen, Kellie Stevens, Kevin Carey, Miami Police, Mike Tyson, Raging Bull, Sam Newman, Scorsese, The Footy Show, The Game Plan, Tyson, Wayne Carey on June 17, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
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
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Agatha Hates the Way She Looks
Posted in Fiction on June 10, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
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
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My First Gay Porn Film
Posted in Film, Observation, Pornography with tags Chuck Norris, Feminism, Gender Studies, Pigs at the Troff on June 3, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Wendy Waters
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Anthony O’Neill, Bronte Sisters, Catch the Moon, Fields of Grace, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabelle Allende, Jeanette Winterson, Joanne Harris, Keats, Mary, Mills and Boon, Scheherazade, Summer of the 17th Doll, Virginia Woolf, Wendy Waters on May 24, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Catch the Moon, Mary
Posted in Reading with tags Wendy Waters on May 24, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleThis is the first chapter from ‘Catch the Moon, Mary’, by Wendy Waters, as promised.
At its best, his soul was in flashing, quivering, constant motion: the gold, yellow, white and silver light of it darting about like fish in a sunlit bowl. But this interminable quest had dimmed and contracted him.
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Freedom, Sunshine and a Little Flower
Posted in Observation with tags Hans Christian Andersen, Joshua Bell, Washington Post on May 22, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
I recently read a story from the Washington Post via Facebook, about an experiment conducted in a U.S. railway tunnel.
One of the world’s most gifted musicians, Joshua Bell, stood and played a succession of classical masterpieces on a $3.5 million dollar violin and was ignored by everyone, except a small child. Continue reading
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Comparative Religions in 'Game of Thrones'.
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Game of Thrones on May 19, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“Do you pray to the Gods?”
“The old and the new.”
There is only one God, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death; not today.”
Theme Park at its Darkest 