The Somewhat Ambitious

Hey guys, just a reminder that at 6.50am this Monday, I’ll be broadcasting my segment live on stage with the Triple J Breakfast crew from the Northcote Social Club. It’s part of Reach Around Australia, where the crew will be hopping from state to state all week. If you’re in the area at that hour, [...]

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Armageddon Expo is on this weekend in Melbourne! Apart from the regular array of convention goodies, there’ll be celebrities, anime screenings, and… you know what? It’s early. Here’s the list of highlights from the website:
• Live wrestling with international wrestling stars ‘The Sandman’ and Traci Brooks with Christy Hemme joining local talent [...]

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Got scissors? Got paper? Got a printer? Got Milk? Good, go here to print out some of the most adorable Marvel superhero paper toys ever. If you’re like me, you’ll probably line them up and squee noisiliy. The fact that they’re all poking out their tongues makes the whole thing even sweeter, and makes me [...]

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Ever wanted to pretend you’re a Japanese monster? Yeah me too. I loves to get knee-deep in power lines and Howitzers. Anyway, you can now enjoy that special feeling of unbridled wrath with Baron Bob’s bystander action figures. The set features nine bystanders, wearing various looks of shock, fear, panic, and one which appears to [...]

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I do so enjoy a good novelty blog. Sure I probably only ever look at them once, a brief diversion before heading back to my carefully manicured garden of Google Reader delights. But still, I find the fact that they keep emerging in such numbers and inspiration quite… stirring. Today we’re mocking people in their [...]

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For those of you who are fans of McSweeney’s, Tyler Curry has written a fantastic little piece called World of Warcraft vs. My Girlfriend. It combines the wit and sagacity of McSweeney’s with the crippling social ramifications of WOW.
(Link via McSweeneys)
/Paul

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Yes, the zombie threat is over. Blizzard have announced that a cure has been found. More likely, however, enough people bitched about not being able to do quests and whatnot, and they caved, which is a shame because… well, because there was something so satisfying about being hunkered down on the top floor of an [...]

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In a rare anecdotal break, yesterday I saw several mynah birds having a fight on a median strip near my house. And by fight, I mean a royal shit-mixing; two were going nuts in the middle of a circle of angry birds. It was, I kid you not, like a tiny Roman collieseum. Anway, I [...]

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When I make my first blockbuster thriller, the main character will begin the film by waking up in a room decorated solely by an engine-powered coconut. It will look something like this.
/Luke
[courtesy of Ryan's Internet]

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While I hate Comic Sans as much as the next man, and consider my own choice of font (the lovely Minion Pro) to be little short of family, I don’t get nearly quite so animated about the relative merits of different typefaces as many others seem to. For example, Mr Lars Willem Veldkampf, who has [...]

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