The Somewhat Ambitious

Today on the Breakfast Show, I blathered charmingly about the following:
- Another horrible novelty alarm clock, which guarantees to wake you up! Hopefully.
- Hacking your brain! The Boston Globe has some methods, drug free, on how to trick your brain into hallucinating! Stay tuned for Paul and Luke’s unsupervised test results.
- HOPE HAS ARRIVED! I [...]

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Make sure you tune in using the link to Triple J (to your right, dear readers) 7.45am tomorrow, for Nerds of a Feather! I’ll be blathering about the swearing in of Obama, celebrity deaths, hallucinations, spaceships, and all kinds of bizarro shit. Also, tune in to Triple J from 1-6am for more of me, on [...]

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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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