Every year the Australian lamb industry drops an ad for Aussies to eat lamb on Australia Day (which is next week). I posted about it last year (and included my favourite from 2016). For your viewing pleasure, here is the 2021 ad, Make lamb, not walls… (A few Aussie explanations first: Aussie state borders have…
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At the movies: “2020” (a review)
For over 25 years, film critics David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz presented At The Movies, discussing films opening in theatres that week. This week they were asked to critique the world’s least-loved year… for your amusement, here’s a review of 2020. I think 2020 is totally deserved of a rotten tomato. What do you think?
Douglas Adams + Australia
I can’t find the original source, but this is reportedly how Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, viewed Australia and Australians: “Australia is a very confusing place, taking up a large amount of the bottom half of the planet. It is recognizable from orbit because of many unusual features, including what…
ACT Border closed to the Grinch
In September 2019, Australia started to burn. Where I live we had 4 months of hot, windy, smoke-filled skies with fire warnings keeping us attached to our phones. Then we had a serious hail storm (take the more than 20,000 cars written off as an indicator). Then covid19. It’s been a year to forget. To…
A rose by any other name…
Recently a village in Austria succeeded in changing its name. As of Jan 1st, the town of F***ing will be called Fugging. It was pronounced Fooking, but of course, foreigners took great delight in using the alternative pronunciation and swiping the town signs. I thought it might be fun to list some of the places…