Category Archive: AUSTRALIANIA
More Hanging Than Picnic
“Picnic at Hanging Rock” – the Theatrical Adaptation (Directed by Geoff Brittain) Adelaide University Theatre Guild, 6 October 2018 If you don’t know the story, you’ve been living on Mars. Young ladies from Appleyard College set off with some of their teachers to picnic at Hanging Rock. It’s a warm day; the students have been forbidden any ‘tomboy foolishness’ by exploring the Rock; what could go wrong? This saga of Joan Lindsay’s has galvanised generations of readers and film-goers – such has been the hype over the years that people have started to regard the mystery as True Crime. And there…
Continue Reading →The Football Solution
By George Megalogenis (2018) First, one disclamatory reason for liking this book. At a pub on the south side of Adelaide on AFL Grand Final day, 2017, I was the sole Richmond supporter (wearing my Glenelg Tigers scarf and barracking for my 2nd team) which earned plenty of dirty looks. Outside a restaurant in town after the match, I caught the eye of an Adelaide Crows fan, bedecked in all the gear, packing his sullen family into a people-mover. Without a trace of sarcasm (because I’ve seen a few losing Grand Finals, and you don’t rub it in in such…
Continue Reading →The Sentimental Bloke
C.J. Dennis, born 7 September 1876 He lived in an age when you could get away with writing in dialect (like Robbie Burns or Walter Scott before him) and his most famous work, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke makes one cringe nowadays. Although we love one of his titles; The Glugs of Gosh. The ‘Laureate of the Larrikin’ was born in Auburn in the Clare Valley of South Australia, and spent most of his life in Melbourne. He’s buried in the cemetery at Box Hill. Here’s “At the Play” from Sentimental Bloke, where Doreen and Bill (the Bloke) take…
Continue Reading →Tigers: Season 2018 in emojis
Angry, out of the race, but still determined to swing it around...
Our 18 games as expressed in the idiom of internet idiograms. Game 1: Glenelg loses to South in a pathetic Good Friday performance…38 points…season off to an abysmal start. Game 2: Bays drop a close one (3 points) at home to Port. Game 3: ‘What’s going on?’ Bays knock off Norwood by 31 points (!) Yay! P, in L.A., waits 24 hours to give L the bad news… Game 4: Tigers lose to Eagles…again! 61 points!?! Game 5: Bays having a laugh…thumped at home by Centrals. 33 points. Game 6: Yee-haw! Tigers beat West @ Richmond. 25 points. Game 7: Comfortable…
Continue Reading →Footy Finals Song # 3: Norwood and Sturt
Here’s some not so-grand old rags… We link to both versions, in the interests of balance (sigh), and offer our alternate version(s): “It’s a Grand old flag, It’s a brown paper bag It’s chook-wrap for me and for you, It’s the emblem for the team we deplore The team of the [red and the blue / two-toned shade blue], Every heart beats faint for that [red and blue paint / double-blue paint] As we warble this song to you……can you believe? ‘Should old acquaintance…we forgot’ There’s no football on New Year’s Eve!“
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