I haven’t posted much here for a while other than comedy sets and flagrant self-promotional advertisements. Well, come to that, I suppose you could make the case that his whole website is just one big attention-seeking advertorial. Fine. Whatever.

Read more: Job Hunt

A few years ago I wrote about the surprisingly strong feelings that came over me on the passing away of Leslie Nielsen. I wrote about how he was the first person to really inspire me to make other people laugh. ON his passing, of course I treated myself to a Naked Gun marathon, and reflected on what a shame it was that people don’t make movies like that anymore. Nobody writes that kind of stuff if it doesn't fit the sitcom formula, or contain at least one vampire.

Read more: The Sam Schumann Variety Hour and a Bit

Darwin has more sky per capita than any other Australian capital city. And boy, do we know how to use it.

Read more: Lights in the Sky

I’ve never been into the whole Halloween thing. As a kid my parents kind of sheltered us from it because they were worried about the whole occult side of it: It’s traditionally All Hallow’s Eve: the only night of the year when evil spirits are allowed to wander around and cause trouble and hex people and ask strangers for candy before the saints all come back home on All Hallow’s Day -  or All Saints Day as we call it now, which has more to do with the Church Liturgical Calendar than with the Channel Seven hospital drama, which admittedly was also pretty scary.

Read more: Some Reflections on Halloween. Sort of.

I got asked this week whether I’m a feminist or not. I decided the answer is no, but not for the reasons you might think. It’s not because I don’t identify with their cause. It’s just that I think they’re a bunch of cyber posers on an order of magnitude comparable to … well… me.

Read more: Activism: You're Doing it Wrong

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