Stalemate
"Okay, Professor, so we didn't beat Sturt...but Sturt didn't beat us." (Frederick Stuart Church's rendering of the Tiger and the Professor, after lunch)
Glenelg v Sturt at Peter Motley Oval, 27 August 2016 Major round contender Sturt led us all day. The Double Blues moved through their mid-field with a dazzling series of handballs, cutting our defences up and looming as big winners. Yet the home side squandered the best of the breeze in the first quarter, by over-use and inaccuracy before goal, yielding them leaders by 17 points despite having 11 scoring shots to 4. Beard and Evans looked dangerous up forward for Sturt. But for sterling work in ruck by Warwick McGinty and great defence by James Sellar, the margin would have been bigger. The…
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(photo: Jo Altmon)
Songs in Our Heart # 44 Heroes (David Bowie) (Written by David Bowie and Brian Eno, released September 1977) [An almost unique pop song – no bridge, instruments set to howl, yet awfully full of feeling.]
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Songs in Our Heart # 43 Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) (Written by Roger Waters and David Gilmour; released September 1975) [“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year…”]
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(A marriage made in hell - Norman and Ruth)
(1977) (Written by Alan Ayckbourn; Directed by Herbert Wise) This three-part dance about a weekend in the country, set at parallel times in different rooms of a large house, is not everyone’s cup of tea by a long urn, but it satisfies in its neat construction, its gentle humour, and several rollicking performances. “Table Manners” revolves around the dining room; “Living Together” the lounge and the conclusion is “Round and Round the Garden.” The episodes stand alone but we recommend that you watch all three consecutively, over a few nights (or one long rainy afternoon). Kudos to the…
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Ah Andy Capp, you wife-beating drunk!
There is a moment in The Simpsons when Homer chuckles at a cartoon, “Ah Andy Capp, you wife-beating drunk!” Homer might have found Wade Jones, the primary wife-beating drunk in Larry Brown’s “Joe” amusing too, until Wade stabbed him for his blue trousers. Wade drags his starving family – down to five now (we know what happened to baby Calvin, but what happened to the other four children?) – through the snake-ridden backwoods of Mississippi. We’re soon down to four – Gary’s sister takes to her father with a slab of wood and walks out of the family into Larry’s fabulous, “Fay”. Joe Ransom sleeps…
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