Bill Bailey Thank God for Darwin
Dylan Moran I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.
Reported on Times Live ….and about time too. It has been a fairly open secret in the Arts industry that all has not been well with 2010 funding, and I suppose government had to wait until the World Cup was done and dusted before getting the investigation going. Don’t want to be party poopers and [...]
Cell C today revealed a new corporate identity – new logo, new colours and, seemingly, a new attitude to its customers. In the course of doing so they took some bold steps into what are, for their company at least, uncharted waters. The launch came as the grand finale of a trickle-in campaign that has [...]
So Eugene Terreblanche has been murdered. And although it is probably unrelated, the fact that it happened while the country debates the appropriateness of struggle songs like “kill the boer” is going to put the whole debate in stark relief. It is a real life example of what the song’s critics have been saying, and [...]
Grahamstown Spur. Chicken burger. Is it just me or is the chicken roughly the same size as the tomato? And, no, it’s not a particularly big tomato. Just saying.
It’s not often that I’m moved to gush. Oh, alright, I’ll be honest. I am frequently moved to gush when it comes to music I love. It’s just that too often I couldn’t be arsed to actually do it. This time round I am so blown away by the Parlotones’ new CD I have to [...]
If this didn’t betray a deep and disturbing level of homophobia and a major invasion of privacy, it would be funny. Courtesy of the Sunday Pepper – a Ugandan newspaper.
This morning I listened to Aden Thomas interviewing Ian Neilson, the Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, on Cape Talk. The interview was about what Eyewitness News is calling the IRT costing “bungle”. The use of the word bungle confuses me. Mixing up your medications and taking the pink pills instead of the yellow ones is [...]
I don’t know what made me think of Hagen Engler recently, but through a near-random series of mouseclicks I ended up on his website/blog. Actually, that would have been what made me think of him – I was on his website. Hagen is Editor of FHM Magazine and one of the more underrated writers in [...]
Jayne and I went to the theatre the other day. For the young among you, theatre is like YouTube but with curtains, an interval and winegums. And no buffering. The Kalk Bay Theatre is one of those endearing performance spaces that restore my faith in live theatre. No-one is out to make a quick buck, [...]
When a stranger leans over to me and says “Won’t you keep an eye on my bag/seat/table please…I just need to have a quick smoke/go to the loo/feed my meter” an irrational anger, induced by an icy fear floods my system. Is it just me? Don’t misunderstand – I have no problem with random acts [...]
