Will Type For Food

For decades, the debate has been raging amongst literary scholars: "Which is better? James Joyce, or a train timetable?" On the on...

Dear Publishers, I enclose the manuscript for a semi-autobiographical novel of my own. I've been working on it, on and off, for the past...

Who is this weirdo that has just started posting over at Intersecting Lines ? Anyway, I wouldn't have anything to do with him if I were...

Not that I don't like my job. All I do is listen to radio all day and type and when it gets quiet, I'm able to nip down to the video...

Hi there, Mild Case of Eczema! How good to see you back! Comparatively, at least. I mean, I'd rather have you round than a Mild Case of...

and by the way, mr tim blair, the use of the word "leftoid" is childish and stupid. Commenter Thorn at Anonymous Lefty . In the n...

If you're reading this overseas, you probably haven't heard that it's Australia Day at the moment, and if you haven't, then ...

Lots of debate , starting here , about people who try to be funny. When it comes to humour, some people are serious about being funny, and ...

To sniff, to spring, to bark - and not to heel. Alfred Sheepdog Tennyson.

There is a God, and he reserves an especially painful place in hell for all those who misplace apostrophes. This week, several alerts have l...

An Ode to the White Dog In The Park Dear White Dog In The Park, You see the pigeons. I see you. I know what you want to do: To spring amongs...

Just been to see The Producers . You haven't seen The Producers ? See it. Here are some of the reasons why: "I smell the stench of ...

The Age Letters page? It's the twitty trying to be witty. UPDATE! - Oh, stop complaining. Somebody had to say it.

Today is the International day of Not Very Much! You celebrate it by leaning, loitering, lying, lazing, lolling about, lollygagging, and by ...

People, help me out here. I've got a problem. How do you spell 'cocksucker'? Is it with a hyphen? Without? Is it one word, or t...

If you're thinking of joining up with a co-operative , then don't. I was a member of a co-operative in Newcastle. We were supposed t...

Thinking of visiting Australia? Good for you! Australia is the greatest country in the world, except for most of the others, and features ma...

This account of the ABC of old is rather charming: Incredible though it may seem, the ABC used to be unbiased. In the 1950s and 1960s Chann...

Ignore that previous post. I'm not actually that hard up that I want to go cutting random letters and items of grammar out of my vocabul...

I'm down to twenty dollars for the rest of this week, so I've decided I'm going to make some budgetary constraints on this blog....