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Culture / Happiness / Life

On Iron Maidens and the power of music

June 11, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I’ve just finished watching an oldish (8 years) doco about Iron Maiden’s 2008 “Somewhere Back In Time” world tour and it got me reflecting on the wonder that is music. …

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It’s the end of the blogging world as we know it, and I feel fine

June 7, 2016June 7, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I last blogged some eleven years ago. I guess that makes me a veteran; not a pioneer perhaps but certainly one of the early adopters. After building it up to …

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America’s UnFantastic Four

June 6, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

How the hell, in a nation of 320 million, did we end up with these four anti-superhero losers as the last ones standing in the 2016 election contest?     …

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Culture / Life

Fox dog-whispers dead baby

June 5, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As a rule I never assume that celebrities are necessarily smart and/or sane, but once in a while a story pops up on the news that makes even me go …

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On first dates and communist restaurants

June 3, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A first date tonight. She likes Vietnamese. Not too many options in Brisbane inner north. Her: “What’s that Vietnamese place that was named after some dictator that attracted all the …

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Culture / Politics

The Girl With A Feminist Tattoo

June 2, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Take a look around the world and it puts everything in perspective; suddenly, all the huge “controversies” at home turn from mountains into molehills and all the activists seem less …

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Trump no longer ronery, endorsed by the Norks

June 1, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Well, maybe not. I hate it when the headline is more exciting than the story itself. Like this one: “North Korea says Trump isn’t screwy at all, a wise choice …

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Culture / Politics

Miss Turkey gets turkey slapped by the Islamists

June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

From the freedom of speech files in a country which wants to join the European Union: A former Miss Turkey was handed a 14-month suspended prison sentence on Tuesday for …

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Culture

The attack of 1000ft blockbuster atrocities

May 31, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I woke up this morning to the number one celebrity story in the news being Kate Beckinsale recounting how the director Michael Bay was an ass to her during and …

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Culture

Exodus: Gods, kings and Scotts

May 29, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Hollywood doesn’t do Bible well. Hollywood doesn’t do religion well in general. Hollywood doesn’t do well anything that’s out of its comfort zone – patriotism, conservatism, family values. You would …

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The Daily Outrage

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Today’s Daily Outrage courtesy of Sheikh Saleh Bin Fawzan Al-Fazwan, member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, and what everyone on the Internet has already called a catwa: A senior Saudi …

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Culture / Politics

The Daily Outrage

May 26, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Today’s Daily Outrage courtesy of students at Oberlin College, Ohio, the institution renowned as the first in the nation (in 1835) to open admission to women and all races: “A …

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Barnaby
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In defence of Barnaby

May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

He might be a tomatohead but he’s our tomatohead – and he’s right. Unless you have been in a quarantine yourself for the past few months, I’m sure you’re familiar …

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On missing the 1990s

May 24, 2016May 17, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I miss the ’90s. I never thought I would say that, but there it is. As a Gen X, I’m a child of the ’80s, albeit as experienced on the …

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Culture / Politics

Silicon is a left-wing element

May 21, 2016May 21, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff - 15 Comments.

Sometime later today I will finish reading Walter Isaacson’s “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution”, his bigger picture follow up to the …

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Culture / Politics

On losing respect for your bookshelf

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff - 14 Comments.

I love books. I have been reading them since I was 5 years old and seriously collecting them since I acquired my first bookshelf a few months after settling in …

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Culture / Politics

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff - 15 Comments.

Every news and commentary outlet needs a good slogan. All the news that’s fit to print. We report, you decide. Speaking for the Workers’ Party of Korea. For a while …

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