Friday, December 12, 2008

Letter From The Editor

5:42PM Jess McGuire | Lord help us all. During summer, as you would all well know, the regular broadcasters from all radio stations go on holidays and relax and have “experiences” so they can create a valuable stockpile of hilarious anecdotes to dazzle your ears with over the first few months of the new year. In their place? Various talented folk specially selected for their musical knowledge, wit, passion, and charm. And sometimes – just sometimes – when those people aren’t available, people like me get to have a bash at time slots which don’t just appeal to long haul truck drivers high on Ritalin ‘n’ NoDoze cocktails. WHICH MEANS… as of Monday morning, Your Editor (ie: me) will spend three weeks tormenting the good people of Melbourne with my croaky early morning voice on RRR’s Summer Breakfasters program. Melbourne listeners can tune in to 102.7FM from 6am til 9am each weekday morning, and folks anywhere else may like to stream online from rrr.org.au. While I don’t sound particularly healthy in the morning (no, really – ask Triple J weekend breakfast listeners! Even if I go to bed at 6pm the night before, if I’m in front of a microphone before 6pm, I sound like I’ve been huffing bongs and drinking hard liquor for several days straight) my co-hosts are very talented individuals. The first two weeks (December 15th – 26th) will see Ryan Egan from RRR’s Local And/Or General fame keeping things afloat and ensuring the show doesn’t dissolve into a mess of Richard Wilkins jokes and Phil Collins’ back catalogue, and during the third week (December 29th – January 2nd), the famous Tony “Biggsy” Biggs from RRR’s On The Blower will slap me into line and keep me from even contemplating spinning 12 minute remixes of Meat Loaf’s “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”. I will try and ensure you still get to start your day with fresh Australian idiocy on here, but if I’m a little late – forgive me, and tune in to hear it in audio form. x PS: If you are listening on Christmas morning, I fear for you. More »

Diablo Cody Talks Judy Blume

3:15PM Jess McGuire | I stumbled across an article for EW penned by Oscar winning wordsmith Diablo Cody the other day and I actually enjoy it very much, so I thought I would give you a “heads up”. That’s what you expect from me, right? Moving on. Diablo has kindly taken the time to put together a very nice tribute to children’s book scribbler Judy Blume. As someone who read a heap of Blume’s work when I was growing up, I thoroughly enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane… I grew up devouring the Blume canon at our woefully small public library. The covers were hazy illustrations that evoked Playtex bra ads from the ’70s; the pages had been worn pulpy-soft by a thousand juvenile thumbs. But the first book I read of Blume’s was not one of her infamous adolescent sagas. It was a kiddie story called Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, which nonetheless seemed so exotic to me it might as well have been a Macedonian travelogue. More »

Emma Watson Finds Daniel Radcliffe’s Dangly Bits Incredibly Amusing

2:41PM Jess McGuire | Remember when footage of Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe’s nude scenes from the play Equus came out and the world began accessing Harry Potter’s package? It’s nice to know that internet dorks weren’t alone when it came to closely examining Radcliffe’s naughty parts and giggling – his co-star Emma Watson has piped up and admitted she found the whole “thing” hilarious. “I saw it in London, it was amazing,” says Emma. Let me jump in here and assure you she’s talking about the play Equus and not Harry Potter’s cock. More »

We Literally Found This Very Amusing.

12:20PM Jess McGuire | Y’all know about British version of The X Factor which stars our very own Dannii Minogue, right? Well apparently in the latest series of the show, two teenagers have fallen in love – and thus, when one of them was kicked off the program, there were tears and heartbreak. Simon Cowell revealed the truth about the relationship between X Factor’s Diana Vickers and Eoghan Quigg yesterday when he called them ‘two kids in love’. During a press conference Cowelll talked about the moment in last week’s show when the sobbing 16-year-old ran to embrace Diana, 17, as she sang for the last time. ‘I loved it. It’s live TV, things like that happen, that’s the fun,’ he said. Great, cool, whatever. I don’t really care about Eoghan and Diana, although I will note that she appears to be a spunky young woman and he looks about 12, so the idea of them pashing makes me feel rather ill. But I did love, love, love, LOVE the following bit of the Daily Mail’s article. More »

Going To The Meredith Music Festival This Weekend?

11:54AM Jess McGuire | CAN I GET A LIFT, BRO? Also, you’d better leave your stash of illegal substances at home. Police will crack down on drug use, drink-driving and unruly behaviour this weekend in what will be the largest police operation in the Meredith Music Festival’s history. Sniffer dogs will be used at the annual music festival, which attracts thousands of people over three days. If a sniffer dog hoovers up my coke, I will choke a bitch. (DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) My favourite part of The Age’s article was the following: More »

The Hanson Clan Continues To Expand At An Alarming Rate

10:40AM Jess McGuire | Congratulations to Taylor Hanson and his wife Natalie, who have had yet another child together. That means Taylor is now a father of four children, his elder brother Isaac has two, and even his babyfaced child drummer brother has one kid under his belt. Taylor, the middle brother of the rock trio Hanson, and his wife Natalie welcomed a son, Viggo Moriah, on Tuesday in Tulsa, Okla., they tell PEOPLE exclusively. More »

Peter Andre And Jordan Are Not Having Another Baby! They’re As Unhappy As Ever!

9:14AM Jess McGuire | If you can’t turn to the tabloids for facts about celebrity wombs, then how on earth are we meant to get accurate information regarding the comings and growings occurring inside the disturbingly taut bellies of famous ladies? By waiting until the individuals involved make a public statement? Pah. That takes too long! So anyway. Yesterday’s excitement about new baby for Jordan and Peter Andre? Foolish. A rep has piped up that she’s not up the duff, and the Daily Mail assures us that not only are they not having another child, but their marriage is still a fragile creature. Katie Price and Peter Andre reignited rumours of marital woes last night after leaving a London nightclub separately. The couple, who have been persistently plagued by reports their marriage is on the rocks, hit hotspot Movida in what appeared to be an show of unity. But the evening quickly unravelled for the notoriously argumentative pair, who ended up heading home hours apart. Hours apart? Oh no! Everyone knows that couples who are able to separate themselves from each other for more than a ten minute period are on the rocks! More »