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!!
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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! Footnotes: 1. Or, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 is [...]
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