Category Archive: LIFE
Dear oh dear oh dear
Prospects not good...
Prospect Oval, 1 May 2016 How wrong can your correspondent be? About a week ago, he wrote: “The team is good enough and things will fall into place soon.” In what should have been a close game, the Roosters got out of the blocks fast, soon led, and by mid-game it was 9 goals to 2. We apologise for the poor quality of our photo of the scoreboard (see below) – our hands were shaking with fear, loathing, rage and despair. I don’t know who has the task of apologising for the performances of the Tigers. The team was (it must be reported…
Continue Reading →The Dead Pool
The Dead Pool (by the Dead Sea) (photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/government_press_office/6339649891/)
DISCLAIMERS TVC Dead Pool does not nominate celebrities we necessarily want dead. Nominations do not reflect any actual knowledge, nor do they represent imputations upon a nominee’s lifestyle, health, or associates. TVC Dead Pool © is designed as a parlour game only, and no distress, inconvenience or dread is intended. TVC declares that its past Dead Pool performance has attained 87% correct outcome. But there’s only a 50% chance that is correct. Please post comments below, and remember to speak well of the possibly soon=dead… By the way, what’s going on? We’ve famous musicians dropping like flies! Bowie, Cohen,…
Continue Reading →Bays Battle On
A shame we couldn't put out the lights (photo courtesy 'The Advertiser')
Glenelg v Adelaide, 24 April 2016 The Tigers are clearly better this year; you don’t get that sinking feeling like you did for large chunks of matches last season. They were in the game nearly all the way last Sunday, did some good things, and they never lost heart. But they were up against a team with 19 AFL-listed stars, or embryonic stars, half of them bigger and faster than a Silverado. For all their gallant striving, the Bays didn’t win a quarter, had 10 less scoring shots, and lost by a comfortable 5 goals. The inclusion of Adelaide in the SANFL is…
Continue Reading →This Whiteley Business
True blue
There’s a fascinating case on in Sydney at the moment, and lots of folks seem to be treating the litigation as a dripping roast. In 2009 an artwork (“Orange Lavender Bay”) attributed to Brett Whiteley, who died in 1992, was sold to a Sydney car dealer for big money. A car dealer being hornswoggled! O, delicious irony. The contentious piece has superficial similarities with Blue Lavender Bay (the Bay was where the Whiteleys lived for some years), namely: the same offhand brush strokes, cartoonish curves, and Ken-Done-infantilism. We feel for Wendy Whiteley, the artist’s Cosima, who said at a launch of a biography of…
Continue Reading →Prince Goes Uptown
(photo by Jimi Hughes)
Vale Prince Rogers Nelson (7/6/1958 – 21/4/2016) Pardon the painful allusion, but a lot of his songs, technically superb as they are, were strictly elevator music. But there’s Pop Life, Let’s Go Crazy, 1999, Nothing Compares 2 U, Raspberry Beret, Kiss, Sexy M.F., Peach and Cream. Many of his songs had production touches frankly reminiscent of novelty songs, but he had je ne sais quoi – he had the power – he was virtually a cult. And now he’s gone uptown. Vale.
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