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Got a haircut this morning. Usually I have to ask the barber to trim my eyebrows. Today he got in first and asked me.:think:

A little postscript anecdote for you. I was driving out of the Perth CBD early this morning, pulled up for a red light and there's this derro looking guy holding up a cardboard sign. The usual stuff: homeless, need help, meds, etc. I was going to ignore him when he yells out GO THE DOCKERS! I...

I reckon Mick Taylor's best solo is on the live version of Sympathy for the Devil on Get Yer YaYa's out. It's made all the better because of the solo that Keith does first, which is pretty impressive in its own right. Mick then takes over and blows Keef off the stage. Richards' solo starts at...

I've an older (about 6 years) Saumsung phone and it keeps telling me I'm running out of space for apps. And no, I can't be arsed putting more memory in it. So recently I purged it of all but the apps I really need/use. Except for the apps relating to phone calls/contacts/SMS/photos etc, I was...

This highlights everything I hate about Gather Round. It's nominally a Freo home game and they should be mild favourites, off the back of the home crowd. Instead, the crowd will probably be 2 or 3 to 1 in favour of Carlton. So they lose a home game, we (sort of) gain one. We should win but I...

Itchy and the Nits. I saw these gals at a street festival in Marrickville last year and I've been listening to them ever since. They've just released their first album, 15 minutes of stripped down garage pop/punk that I can't stop listening to.

Two episodes into Population 11. It has its moments and we'll keep going, but it's a bit formulaic: fish-out-of-water American travels to remote outback town seeking his past. The town is, naturally, populated entirely by quirky oddball characters.

I'm 55. I had a cousin slightly older than me, absolute mad keen Richmond fan, die from breast cancer back in 2016. She'd had it on and off for about 20 years when it came back with a vengeance, and she was given two weeks to live. I phoned her up to say goodbye and part of our last...

Oh yes it was!

I gave up on The Whisky Club. There were too many ordinary whiskies, not to mention the "exclusive" offerings that proved to be not as exclusive as claimed. I joined The Single Malt Whisky Club instead. It's the same deal: the chance to opt out every month. I get maybe two thirds of them...

That's more or less what my daughter said!

Late last year I was at a Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers concert at the Metro. For those unfamiliar with them, their fan demographic is mostly teenage or early 20s girls. I wasn't the oldest person there but there weren't too many over 50s. There weren't too many over 30s either! So I'm...

Maisie Peters was great on Thursday night. She's playing tonight in Melbourne, wish I could go to that too. Next up: The Hu on Monday, some Mongolian throat metal to start the week.

Finished Boy Swallows Universe. The first five episodes were brilliant TV, the sixth suffered because Eli grew up and the actor portraying him was nowhere near as good as young Eli. And the last episode was...

...and finished Apples Never Fall. Very well acted and produced but the storyline was merely ok. The big reveal was pretty lame and the ending fairly predictable. Not as good as Big Little Lies but better than Eight Perfect Strangers, the previous Liane Moriarty adaptions I'd seen.

We watched the first three episodes of Apples Never Fall last night. It's the latest series based on a Liane Moriarty book, and stars Annette Bening and Sam Neill. It's great so far, not quite sure where it's going. But looking forward to finding out.

I read most James Clavell back in the day so I'm going to watch Shogun eventually. Any opinions on how it compares to the 80s series with Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune? Or the book?

First edition AD&D back in the late 70s or early 80s. I still have my DM's Guide and Player's Handbook by Gary Gygax. D&D has long fallen by the wayside. My group liked 3.5, but took one look at 4th edition and ran away screaming. We went to Pathfinder and haven't looked back. Although I did...

I saw Transvision Vamp at Selinas twice on two separate tours back in their (very short) heyday. I don't think I've felt that much energy at a concert before or since. Being in my early 20s I went straight down the front into the moshpit, and was a drenched pool of sweat at the end. Honourable...

Yep, a great name for a feminist punk band!

Here's a few I've been watching: Deadwood. Just finished series 1 and it's merely ok. I was expecting more since it regularly makes it onto "best ever" tv shows lists. Justified was better, but I'll keep going with no expectations. The Citadel. WTAF? They boasted about spending $300m per...

In the past year or two I've mostly gone to small venues to see local acts, with the occasional festival thrown in. The best of the lot were Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, Amyl and the Sniffers, Itchy and the Nits, and Neptune Power Federation. That last one, I've seen five times since I first...

Bigfooty gives a veteran's badge to an account that's been banned since 2012. Masterful trolling or sheer ineptitude? :think: :drunk:

Actually, yes I have. The objections to The Cat in the Hat aren't based on one image, rather: "Owes a debt" is so vague it's almost meaningless, and so what if the Cat was based on a black woman? That doesn't make it racist. I get some of the Seuss criticism, I really do. "If I Ran the Zoo"...

Not seeing it. Racial caricatures of black people usually have exaggerated thick red lips, curly black hair and primitive clothes. If they're really racist, add in a bone in the nose and a bongo drum or similar. And they're also BLACK.

Nope. Queensland health are jumping up and down about the Russian variant, which has turned up in some passengers in hotel quarantine. At this stage they haven't announced whether it's hyper-infectious, ultra-infectious or mega-super-duper-infectious.

The bit I found the most bizarre was this: The characters of The Cat in the Hat are: The titular cat (black and white) Sally and the unnamed narrator (both white) Mum (leg only, presumably white) The fish-in-the-pot (orange) Thing One and Thing Two (non human, drawn as white with blue hair)...

And yet Victorian Health proudly reports every day that they have no new cases from international arrivals. They may as well report on cases acquired from Mars too.

One positive of JobKeeper finishing is that it may give trigger happy Premiers more pause when considering a lockdown or border closure.

:) But don't use that youtube link, for some reason sound drops out about a third of the way through.