- Dentist mine and Dexter ours. Thursday, May 31st, 2012
I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE a dentist and my dentist has always wanted to write comedy. He’s one of the funniest people I know. I keep telling him he should do a one-man show called Dental As Anything. He wants to call it Game On Molar.
Our conversations generally begin with respectable topics such as kids, ...
Read more - Why are some people so touchy about the name changing thing? Thursday, May 31st, 2012
IT LOOKS like I’ve finally achieved my aim of whittling my readership down to three. So hello to Nana, Mum and Germaine — if you’re still reading. Last week I wrote a column questioning, among other things, women taking their husband’s surname. Talk about stroppy! There were more noses out of joint than in a ...
Read more - Why do most women change their surnames when they get married? Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Insecure or conservative or stupid women are bowing to the wishes of their husbands.
WHO the hell is Jana Rawlinson? Jana Wendt I know, Jana Pittman I know, but Jana Rawlinson? So I check out the snap. It looks exactly like Jana Pittman. But her name is Jana Rawlinson. How bizarre. That has to be some ...
Read more - Why do most children still end up with their father’s surname? Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Why do (don’t go there) most children(don’t go there) still end up with (don’t go there, don’t go there, don’t go there!) their father’s surname?
Let’s first acknowledge the existence of and look past the invisible electric fences, rumble strips of social convention and cattle prods of ”please don’t question our convenient answers because behind them ...
Read more - Teenage sikh’s beautiful story of losing the turban and cutting his hair… Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
On Monday I was doing one of my favorite gigs of the year. An address to Melbourne High’s Political Interest Group. As usual the boys and I had lunch before hand and I met Aman, who told me the story about losing the turnban and cutting his hair when he was 15. He’s 17 now. ...
Read more - Hilarious letter to Cardinal George Pell’s lawyers. Must read!!!! Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
A copy of this letter to Cardinal George Pell’s lawyers from Phil Degenhardt was sent to me last night. I think you’ll enjoy it……
Read more - Pell. Deveny. Defamation. Twitter. Q&A. Monday, May 7th, 2012
For all the controversy I’ve gotten into with Twitter, I’ve never received an email from their legal department. Until two weeks ago. Attached to the email was correspondence alerting me the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney’s lawyers were threatening to sue them (and me) for a meme I had tweeted from my account. I’ve removed the ...
Read more - Hard rubbish is dumpster diving for grown ups. And I love it. Sunday, May 6th, 2012
THE People’s Republic of Moreland is pretty trendy these days. I know this because we now have junkies and Pilates. All we need is a juice bar and we’ll be completely up ourselves. Oh, that’s right: we do, and we are.
Right now, we’re excited too. It’s hard rubbish collection season or, as I prefer to ...
Read more - Canberra Rocks. Two words you will never hear. Friday, May 4th, 2012
For all the controversy I’ve gotten into with Twitter, I’ve never received an email from their legal department. Until two weeks ago. Attached to the email was correspondence alerting me the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney’s lawyers were threatening to sue them (and me) for a meme I had tweeted from my account. I’ve removed the ...
Read more - Easter. The 91 kilo chocolate Jesus the Catholics cracked it over. Thursday, April 5th, 2012
For all the controversy I’ve gotten into with Twitter, I’ve never received an email from their legal department. Until two weeks ago. Attached to the email was correspondence alerting me the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney’s lawyers were threatening to sue them (and me) for a meme I had tweeted from my account. I’ve removed the ...
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IT LOOKS like I’ve finally achieved my aim of whittling my readership down to three. So hello to Nana, Mum and Germaine — if you’re still reading. Last week I wrote a column questioning, among other things, women taking their husband’s surname. Talk about stroppy! There were more noses out of joint than in a ...
