The Somewhat Ambitious

As I write this, Richard E. Grant is in the studio. Richard, if you can hear me, I love you. But not in a weird way. But, I digress (and much earlier than usual). On today’s episode of Nerds of a Feather, I discussed:
- My Q&A at Cinema Nova with Philippe Petit of Man on [...]

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On today’s episode of Nerds of a Feather (Podcast available here), I discussed:
- The Nobel Prize awards, which started yesterday. My money is on Clooney.
- The first successful spacewalk by China! Can ping pong be played in space? Perhaps. Is it racist to assume Chinese astronauts must enjoy ping pong? Perhaps.
- It’s snowing on mars! [...]

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Be sure to tune into the following tomorrow:
- Nerds of a Feather on the Triple J Breakfast Show! It’s an early one tomorrow (around 7.50am onwards), so I recommend Vulcan coffee. It will burn your lungs out, but hey, it’s worth it.
- The Somewhat Ambitious can be heard on Syn radio (90.7 in Victoria, otherwise, [...]

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On the latest episode of Nerds of a Feather, I opened with what some have dubbed an almost cruelly obscure Kafka cosplay joke. I was, however, being quite serious; I am considering attending a cosplay this weekend, though not as the ill-fated protagonist of The Metamorphosis. This weekend, Manifest ‘08, Melbourne’s annual Anime festival, is [...]

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The podcast of todays episode can be listened to here. If you’re pregnant, feel free to play it to your unborn child. And if you don’t have a growing child in your belly, play it for a balloon!
/Paul

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Tomorrow on The Breakfast Show, I’ll be bantering with Robby, Marieke and The Doctor about all manner of hot topics, including (but not restricted to):
- The death of God.
- The idiotic, bizarre and unfathomably awesome French legal system.
- More tales in the ongoing Hadron Collider saga. I hear the sequel isn’t as good.
- The announcement [...]

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Tomorrow on the Breakfast Show, after 8pm, Gabby and myself will be discussing (amongst other things):
- How GTA taught a little girl a valuable life lesson (hint: it doesn’t involve killing prostitutes with the blades of a helicopter).
- The creation of a real Skywalker-style Landspeeder. Who cares if your grandmother could run faster than [...]

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This morning on the Breakfast Show, I discussed:
- The moustache pint glass, and how using one to conceal a real moustache is a true mind fuck.
- How the invisibility cloak will revolutionise mischievious seamstresses, as further proof that when Lindsay sets me homework, I do it.
- The new earth-bound Borg Sphere, which is less a [...]

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Remember to listen to the Triple J Breakfast Show tomorrow morning! I’ll be blathering about all manner of bizarre shit, including (but not restricted to) bigfoot, invisibility cloaks, the new Star Trek film, Space Invaders, and how to travel through time using naught but a hairpin and a wish.* If you want to listen to [...]

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This morning on the Breakfast Show, I discussed:
- How a Japanese man faked a kidnapping to get a Nintendo Wii, and the possibility that Japanese appliances don’t actually talk, but are accompanied by prankster ventriloquists.
- The viability of the first impending commercial jetpack, and why jumping out of trees with umbrellas doesn’t work.
- The new [...]

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