The Somewhat Ambitious

Ah yes, the moustache. Even though I can grow one in four days and Luke can’t physically make one appear on his face (true fact!), the moustache is loved by us both. It’s gone through many different permutations over the centuries – early moustaches were pulled from the face and used to batter masatodon to [...]

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Reggaeton [noun]: a form of primarily electronic music, popular amongst Latin American communities, that fuses elements of dancehall, reggae and hip-hop with more traditionally Latin American sounds. Reggaeton is characterised by its distinctive beat, known as ‘Dembow’, which is an amalgamation of reggae percussion with a suite of other West Indian influences. While reggaeton enjoys [...]

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I know many of you have trouble waking up properly in the mornings. To that end, here’s something that will scare your brain into alertness.
I’m so, so sorry.
/Paul

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Long-term readers of The Somewhat Ambitious will know that, alongside North Korea, our other despotic regime of choice has always been the mighty Russia. I mean, what’s not to like? Brutal and bloody history, oppressive landscape and unlivable climate, plentiful concrete factories and open strip mines, and a fine line in the dourest/most alcoholic politicians [...]

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Hey y’all, you know the main man DJ Khaled? Me neither, but apparently he’s big in the ‘rap’ scene (no idea why that’s in inverted commas. Maybe so I can appear whiter than I already am) and loves McDonalds with every fiber of his being. To quote “you know how passionate I am about McDonalds”. [...]

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I come to you today with the tragic and unexpected news that Super Mario… is dead. No, not that awful Bob Hoskins knock-off, I’m talking about the real, the original Super Mario: Captain Lou Albano. Who? This man:

Seriously, the Princess wanted to marry him? Although, if I were Bowser, the prospect of that guy coming [...]

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Windows 7 Launch Parties. Oh sweet Jesus.
I know it’s easy to heap scorn on Windows. Too easy most of the time. Hell, after two years of wedded bliss with my Mac, I find trying to use Windows roughly analogous to having six of my fingers stapled to a piano and then trying to play [...]

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I have never played, looked at or even really thought about Pokemon in any of its many, many incarnations (although I did thoroughly enjoy that whole mass seizure episode of 1997), but still, I think it’s safe to say that this guy is everything you could ever have expected and hoped for from the man [...]

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I’m not going to go into detail about Kanyegate. Sufficed to say, the whole thing has turned into a gigantic meme-scented shit-sandwich, and the above picture is probably my favourite thing to come out of the whole Taylor Swift/Kanye debacle, which has, incredibly, eclipsed the health care reform debate which is currently sweeping across middle [...]

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For your viewing pleasure…
Tramdalf.

This was shot and edited by Miklos Janek, the genius who directed Curiageous (and wrote it with me). It all went down last week on Bourke Street mall, and if you’re somehow unclear as to why we did it, I lost No Fuck Friday. NFF is a weekly feature wherein Luke and [...]

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