Chief Income Tax Collector And Pro-Circuit Executioner Darren Saturday and I are having a running disagreement (well, more of a debate — he hasn’t tried to drive a number 4 pencil through my face yet, so it probably doesn’t qualify as a disagreement) about the significance of corporate ‘branding’ when it comes to consumer decision [...]
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While there’s nothing remotely funny about the most recent bomb threats in London, I did raise a brief smile when I discovered that the government committee overseeing the response to the situation is apparently called … are you ready for this? … Cobra!!
Politics, you old bastard, I’m sick of being disappointed by you. Sick of it, hear me? Sick of it!
Sure, during non-election years I grow complacent about you; I overlook your many flaws, I think, “Maybe we can make something of this relationship after all…”
But then election year arrives, and you’re back to your old tricks [...]
It’s a macabre image. I’m sitting in The Fish Kitchen in Annerley, waiting for my takeaway order to be cooked. I’m looking out through one of their windows - the glass is frosted, but there are clear patches in the shape of fish emblems in each window through which you can see the outside world. [...]
Here’s an interesting news item I stumbled across while wasting time being productive at work.
Apparently 6 girls from a rural Tennessee school have been charged with compiling a death list - a list which not only names staff and other students at the school, but which also apparently names celebrity figures such as Tom Cruise [...]
Kudos to Voodoo Logic’s only semi-famous associate [1], The Creature From 40,000 Fathoms, for getting his name mentioned on the ABC’s Arts and Entertainment blog, Articulate.
Sure, it’s for sending in a picture of a tombstone from Tombstone, but we’re pretty damned impressed, all the same.
So - well done, that Creature!
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Or, at least, the only [...]
Here at Voodoo Logic we’re not just all about the sticking of pins into dolls that look a lot like John Howard [1]. As much fun as that can be, we’re also about celebrating the diverse, the strange, the bizarre, the weird, and the downright unexpected [2].
More than anything, we’re interested in interesting things, and [...]
I was up late one night last week, desperately wishing I could go to sleep and flipping randomly back and forth between television channels.
I was trying to find something - anything - that would distract me from the fact that I was going to have to go to work in a few hours and would [...]
Twenty20 - Bastardization of Cricket or Just Good Entertainment?
Published by January 9th, 2007 in Pins and Needles. 1 CommentA mate of mine lives in the Emerald City (Sydney).
His name is Aussie Dingo Dave and he originally hails from Wimbledon [1] in the UK but has recently had the ’surgery’ which resulted in him having Aussie citizenship bestowed upon him along with two potted blue gum trees thrust into his hands (as [...]
Things I learned from watching Columbo…
Published by January 8th, 2007 in Pins and Needles. 5 CommentsHere’s a life-lesson I picked up recently while watching 97 solid hours of Columbo [1]:
Never - I repeat, never - blackmail a murderer.
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As a direct result of having recently purchased Season 3 of the series on DVD
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