Rick Kane is part of a men’s room conversation on the place of The Kinks in world music. [Nice elder statesman role to the three Northcote young beards – JTH]
Wanting Back to the Old Fashioned Way – Please help me!
August 20, 2015 by 2 Comments
Our man in Japan has been a bit quiet of late, but Yoshi returns with some interesting insights into how frustrating it can be for people running hotel accommodation and relying on internet bookings. A cry for help!
Haiku Bob – Round 20 – mothballs
August 20, 2015 by 2 Comments
Has there been a more frustrating season for Magpie fans than 2015? Haiku Bob contemplates another ‘honourable loss’ that effectively ends the Pies’ hopes of a place in September
August 1985: Three footy heads walk into a disco
August 13, 2015 by 18 Comments
Phil Dimitriadis is reminded of his first experience at a disco when his daughter and her friends take a ‘Fancy’ to some of the music from 1985.
Round 19 – Collingwood v Carlton: The umps have been terrible – except for Uncle Adam!
August 13, 2015 by 19 Comments
Classic Reynolds: family, travel, people, music (Mark Seymour), footy – all the good stuff. And this match report contains a gem about one of the boundary umpires. [Really enjoyable Luke – JTH]
Writers Event: Wilson, Doherty, Hogg, Harms: What is the Word for Word Festival?
August 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Word For Word National Non-Fiction Literary festival returns for 2015 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus. The Almanac’s John Harms will be joined by Tony Wilson, R.M Hogg and surfing writer Sean Doherty in a presentation called; Good Sports: The Technicalities of Sports Writing. Find out more…
A message from the Premier of South Australia
August 7, 2015 by 9 Comments
Dave Brown responds to the time zone debate in South Australia and considers the possibility that the state may be renamed Western Victoria.
Haiku Bob – Round 18 – laid up on the wing
August 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Taking his lead this week from E regnans’ Floreat Pica Society review of Melbourne v Collingwood, and dreaming The Drones’ magnificent track, Shark Fin Blues, Haiku Bob brings you your weekly footy Haiku fix.
Haiku Bob – Round 17: the last break
July 29, 2015 by 2 Comments
It’s still summer holidays in Sweden and Haiku Bob has been whiling away the days in the Stockholm archipelago which, along with the 5.10 am kick-off (!), has crept its way into some of this week’s haiku….
Haiku Bob – Round 15 – Steady Drip
July 16, 2015 by 1 Comment
Three straight defeats and nobody up forward “except bloody Jesse White”… the rains are falling on Haiku Bob’s Magpies.
Almanac Poetry – Red and White
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Jan Courtin shares a poem for the Swans she wrote in 1957
Haiku Bob – Round 14 – just another day
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Haiku Bob’s meditation on Phil Walsh and Collingwood’s mighty effort against Hawthorn. Two events not mutually exclusive.
Jarrad Waite and the Hand of God
July 4, 2015 by 3 Comments
An ode to Jarrod Waite with his 200th game approaching against the Blues
Round 13 – Haiku Bob: through the lines
July 2, 2015 by 2 Comments
Haiku Bob’s response to a tight contest in Perth.
The spectre of the polo club
July 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Brisbane Polo Club yesterday went the way of A.B. Paterson’s Geebung counterparts, falling off their ponies to become spectres of the past, when the club officially wound up after having sold its home of a quarter of a century, the notable Naldham House. While the poetic polo club of ‘Banjo’ Paterson fame and their opponents [Read more]
Round 13 – Sydney v Richmond. Sketchbook Review; Buddy’s Fizz
June 29, 2015 by 14 Comments
Kate Birrell on Buddy’s Bump from Friday night. “What came over you?”
Sundays, Too Far Away
June 26, 2015 by 15 Comments
Schwish tells a good yarn about his dislike for going crabbing with his family every Sunday between 1969-1972.
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