Blue Ain’t Our Colour

July 12, 2021 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | AUSTRALIANIA, LIFE |

Glenelg v Sturt, Unley Oval, 10 July 2021 Under a sunny, cool sky, the Tigers couldn’t shake off a persistent Sturt in the first half. They were getting plenty of the footy but wasted their efforts through disorganized approaches to goal. But by the end of the 3rd quarter, the natural order had been restored: the dominant midfield (Snook, Turner, Partington, Agnew – Bradley and Allen on the wings,) got value for repeated entries in attack and the work was finished off. Coach Brett Hand emphasized the key statistic at lemon time: 40 contested possessions to 19.  And the resulting…

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An Old-Fashioned Spray

July 4, 2021 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | AUSTRALIANIA, LIFE |

Glenelg v Adelaide, Glenelg Oval, 3 July 2021 The Tigers were at a disadvantage, working out what a damp and chilly day would bring: an early start, an opposition (and supporters) that sometimes don’t turn up at all (metaphorically and literally, respectively). Only this time the Crows had turned up, ready to play. With an impressive list of 17 AFL stars, they matched Glenelg, and more, for the first 3 quarters, leading at every change. At three-quarter time, Adelaide led by 8 points with the breeze more from the west than the south. It was time for an old-fashioned spray,…

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ERN – Australia’s Greatest Hoax

June 28, 2021 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | AUSTRALIANIA, THEATRE, THUMBNAIL REVIEWS |

Festival Theatre, Adelaide, 25 June 2021 First, the back story.  The Ern Malley affair is Australia’s most famous literary hoax. Max Harris was a precocious Adelaide poet who edited Angry Penguins, a literary review in the style of the Wyndham Lewis-inspired Blast from several decades before. A couple of traditional poets, Harold Stewart and James McAuley, on a slow day in 1943 at the Melbourne barracks where they were stationed, fabricated a brief folio of poems by an obscure artist, Ern Malley, who had died tragically at the age of 25. Imitating the modernist poetry they despised, the hoaxers wrote…

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I Did But See Her Passing By

June 15, 2021 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | AUSTRALIANIA, LIFE |

Glenelg v North Adelaide, Glenelg Oval, Queen’s Birthday, Monday 14 June 2021 A gloomy, blustery but dry day at the Bay, for the Queen’s Men (i.e. Us) to take on the feisty North Adelaide Roosters, before a holiday crowd of nearly 4,000. North were up and about and threw a lot of pressure at the Tigers, and led by 3 half way through the 2nd quarter.  But the Bays steadied and rattled on the next 5 and led by about a goal at half time. The holy trinity – Liam McBean, Marlon Motlop and Luke Reynolds – had a big…

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ABC Classic Shall Not be Shot

June 8, 2021 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | AUSTRALIANIA, Classical Music, MUSIC |

The ABC (Australian Bolshevik Corporation) uses a lot of the nation’s money to fund its anti-Australian, anti-conservative, anti-rational stances. TVC, if charged with the nation’s finances, would probably cut its funding by about 80%, assuming we couldn’t just break it up and sell it off. What would stay? Well, Sean Micallef’s Mad as Hell, Tom Gleeson’s Hard Quiz, Behind the News, Parliament and we suppose the news could stay, but only if it were the news written and read by James Dibble. And further, ABC Radio could stay. ABC Radio, despite its manifest Marxist destiny and predilections, is consistently better…

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