Audi at Lemans since 1999

Audi has just announced that their latest LeMans challenger is due to hit the track in the next few months. Audi are hoping their new R15 TDI will be as successful as the R8 and R10 TDI which have both dominated at La Sarthe over the past decade. “It was clear to us that we [...]

More Racist Licorice

The other day I posted about Nigger Boy Licorice, a brand of sweet that was popular in Australia for many years up until the mid-1960s when it was suddenly realised that people found the name Nigger Boy to be offensive rather than amusing. I don’t know much about this brand of sweet, and would really [...]

This reminds me of a few people I know!

 This amusing comic strip is by Nina Paley, who has also made a very acclaimed animated film called Sita Sings The Blues. The comic strip above reminds me of a few friends and relatives I know who ‘have’ to compromise there green credentials for the sake of their children.

Alfred Hitchcock’s LifeBoat

I have been watching quite a few Hitchcock films lately. Most of the ones I have been watching have been the black and white films of the 40s and 50s such as Strangers On A Train, Rebecca, Saboteur and Lifeboat. Lifeboat is quite an interesting film that I thought I would review. If this thing [...]

The new and improved Herald Sun

I very rarely read the Herald Sun these days and there is a reason why, which can be seen in yesterday’s paper. They made a big announcement that Fiona Byrne, who is apparently Australia’s most respected gossip columnist (who really respects gossip columnists anyway?) joining them. Also, they are going to allow more space for [...]

How Annoying!?

Just finished watching National Nine News with Brett McLeod and I find myself disgusted that neither he or the Channel Nine reporter can pronounce the name of Lord Mayoral candidate Catherine Ng. It is NOT pronounce Catherine EN JEE, but Ng, like at the end of words like thing, sing or wing. It ain’t that [...]

What I’ve Been Listening To This Week

Because the music I listen to is so much better than the music that you are listening to, I decided I would share just some of the most frequent songs that play on my iPod. As you can see there are a lot of guitar heavy songs. Not every one of these songs is great, [...]

Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs

This is a very controversial Warner Bros. cartoon from the early 1940s, directed by Bob Clampett. This is in fact one of the infamous ‘censored 11′ that has been banned from being shown on TV or released on home video due to its racist content. This cartoon is very well animated and has some very [...]

Shazam Sayer

Here’s a humourous couple of pages from National Lampoons that were written by Denny O’ Neil and pencilled by Don Newton (layouts by C C Beck). This is a comment on the legal situation of Captain Marvel, whose comic book career was ended after he was sued by DC for being too similar to Superman [...]

EC Comics – Dead Right!

This is a very interesting EC Comics story from Shock Suspenstory #6. It has one of those famous EC twists that made their stories much more compelling than those from other companies.