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Or: “Because somewhere out there a lot of fathers are rocking and crying themselves to sleep – or would, if they only knew.” Social media, […]
Continue reading »Or: “Because somewhere out there a lot of fathers are rocking and crying themselves to sleep – or would, if they only knew.” Social media, […]
Continue reading »Confession: I read a lot. Always did, since I was 5. Perhaps too much. Which is why, to avoid bankruptcy, I don’t buy new books. […]
Continue reading »Two thousand and twelve was going to be the year when the world ended, according to some people who misinterpreted the ancient Mayas. The world […]
Continue reading »My blogging year started with a trade union official abusing and threatening me – twice. It ends with a lost December, during which the control […]
Continue reading »OLIVER BEATS MUHAMMED – It’s always fun checking out those end-of-the-year lists of most popular baby names. While the top tens for both boys and […]
Continue reading »As my father reminded me this morning, it was exactly 28 years ago today, that the Chrenkoff family touched down in Brisbane, on a Qantas […]
Continue reading »DREAM INTERPRETATION – A few nights ago I had a dream that I was back in my old apartment where I used to live while […]
Continue reading »MODERN ARCHITECTURE IS GARBAGE, PART 467 – Contrary to what you might expect from my politics, in architecture and design I’m not actually a faddy-daddy […]
Continue reading »SHAMING SHAMING OF FAT SHAMING – This is the actual title of a story on News.com.au today: “Australian woman who weighs 129kg told she was […]
Continue reading »AUSTRALIA ON THE MOVE – In the news of the ever-closer relations between Australia and the United States: That map of Australia you have? It’s […]
Continue reading »SNEAK PREVIEW OF TONIGHT’S SUPER MOON – The astronomical spectacle of the decade, now a world exclusive on The Daily Chrenk on what you can […]
Continue reading »As countries around the world celebrate variously Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day, Poland celebrates its Independence Day on 11 November. The genesis of […]
Continue reading »Some people hate Halloween because it’s American, but in truth it is the Christians who have a more legitimate gripe about this holiday than anti-American […]
Continue reading »If you’re not an American, there are many reasons to hate Halloween. You can be, like me, a misanthrope who hates the idea of being […]
Continue reading »*Warning: language (not my own (and some mine)) and disturbing content* Apologies for the blog silence over the past four days; I was enjoying a […]
Continue reading »If your parents or grandparents were members of the Silent Generation, defined by the Great Depression experience, or the Greatest Generation, similarly shaped by the […]
Continue reading »According to French historian Philippe Aries in his 1960 classic “Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Lifeâ€, childhood was invented by Renaissance Europeans*. […]
Continue reading »Girl meets boy online. Boy says no. Girl’s sister uses social media to shame the boy. Boy gets called a “creepâ€, an “asshole†and an […]
Continue reading »Why oh why did I have to come back to Australia only to find out that the number one item on every news bulletin today […]
Continue reading »Yeah, I know; who would have thought I would ever write a blog post with this title. We truly live in strange times, and 2016 […]
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