letter from the editor
Radio
5:03PM Jess McGuire | Just wanted to give Melburnians (and streamers of radio over the internet from all over the world) a quick heads up about the fact that I’ll be hosting breakfast radio on Triple R over the next couple of weeks. More »
Letter From The Editor
5:03PM Jess McGuire | Just wanted to give Melburnians (and streamers of radio over the internet from all over the world) a quick heads up about the fact that I’ll be hosting breakfast radio on Triple R over the next couple of weeks. More » 
Flotsam & Jetsam
9:11AM Jess McGuire | Hola, dearest readers. Can I bend your virtual ear for the briefest of moments? More »
Letter From The Editor
9:11AM Jess McGuire | Hola, dearest readers. Can I bend your virtual ear for the briefest of moments? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
11:02AM Jess McGuire | Good morning, darling readers. How are tricks? All good, I hope. Listen, I just wanted to have a quick word with you regarding the next couple of days. Spare me a moment? More »
Letter From The Editor
11:02AM Jess McGuire | Good morning, darling readers. How are tricks? All good, I hope. Listen, I just wanted to have a quick word with you regarding the next couple of days. Spare me a moment? More »
Music
11:49AM Jess McGuire | Dearest readers, I’ll admit that I’m a bit grumpy at the moment. Quitting smoking – 24 days in, not that I’m counting or anything – has resulted in me being far more short-tempered than I usually am, and I’m less inclined to be generous towards idiots. Therefore, I have cancelled the planned interview with @m8er. Why? More »
Letter From The Editor
11:49AM Jess McGuire | Dearest readers, I’ll admit that I’m a bit grumpy at the moment. Quitting smoking – 24 days in, not that I’m counting or anything – has resulted in me being far more short-tempered than I usually am, and I’m less inclined to be generous towards idiots. Therefore, I have cancelled the planned interview with @m8er. Why? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
8:04AM Jess McGuire | Alright, beloved readers. Illness has kept me from serving you piping hot dishes of post-weekend celebrity news and pop culture delights, but this morning I managed to breathe through my nose (which I’m sure you’ll agree is a startling development, health-wise) and I feel remarkably better. How should I celebrate this step toward recovery? More »
Letter From The Editor
8:04AM Jess McGuire | Alright, beloved readers. Illness has kept me from serving you piping hot dishes of post-weekend celebrity news and pop culture delights, but this morning I managed to breathe through my nose (which I’m sure you’ll agree is a startling development, health-wise) and I feel remarkably better. How should I celebrate this step toward recovery? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
4:36AM Jess McGuire | Good morning, dearest readers! This is your captain speaking. More »
Letter From The Editor
4:36AM Jess McGuire | Good morning, dearest readers! This is your captain speaking. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
9:31AM Jess McGuire | Hola, dear readers. How are you feeling as we reach the end of John Farnham Appreciation Week? Pumped and inspired, I’ve no doubt. It has been suggested that we turn John Farnham Appreciation Week into John Farnham Appreciation Year but even I can’t help but suspect that may be overkill. However, some clever wag on Twitter piped up that we should rename the site Defarnham Australia – and that, my friends, seems entirely appropriate.
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Letter From the Editor
9:31AM Jess McGuire | Hola, dear readers. How are you feeling as we reach the end of John Farnham Appreciation Week? Pumped and inspired, I’ve no doubt. It has been suggested that we turn John Farnham Appreciation Week into John Farnham Appreciation Year but even I can’t help but suspect that may be overkill. However, some clever wag on Twitter piped up that we should rename the site Defarnham Australia – and that, my friends, seems entirely appropriate.
More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
3:53PM Jess McGuire | Hey y’all,
What’s going on? Having a grand Friday? Glad to hear it. So I just thought I’d take a minute to keep you up to date with a few Defamer Australia related things. You ready?
Firstly, you may be aware of what’s been happening with our American cousins. It’s still going to be business as usual here, so don’t worry your pretty little head about it, okay? We’re gonna polish the place up a bit, add some ace stuff, and your favourite pop culture site will soon take the concept of “time wasting awesomeness on the interwebs” to brave new heights.
Secondly, Your Editor is now doing television reviews for Melbourne breakfast radio show The Breakfasters on RRR every Monday morning. If you’re in Melbourne, tune into 102.7FM. If you’re not (or if you’re addicted to the web LOLOLOLETC) you can stream from rrr.org.au. I am on at 8:15am AEST, OKAY? Okay!
Thirdly, perhaps you are not aware of this but I also do a segment on ABC Perth’s Drive program with Russell Woolf every Tuesday afternoon. I think I am usually on about 3:45pm local time, but I can’t be sure. All I know is that I answer my phone at 5:45pm, and that I really, really struggle with working out time zones.
Fourthly, I am now occasionally doing pop culture spots on ABC Darwin’s Evening show with the lovely Melanie Tait. Keep an ear out, NT-ers.
Fifthly, Blip.fm – how good?! I am obsessed. Consider this link your personal mix tape from Defamer Australia. Oh, and apparently we’re on Twitter now as well. You can follow Defamer Australia by clicking here.
FINALLY…
Welcome to my new favourite song. I dare you not to jive… I dare you. And no, I don’t know what that clip is all about. Is that Spike from Buffy dressed like a Confederate soldier!? What?!
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Letter From The Editor
3:53PM Jess McGuire | Hey y’all,
What’s going on? Having a grand Friday? Glad to hear it. So I just thought I’d take a minute to keep you up to date with a few Defamer Australia related things. You ready?
Firstly, you may be aware of what’s been happening with our American cousins. It’s still going to be business as usual here, so don’t worry your pretty little head about it, okay? We’re gonna polish the place up a bit, add some ace stuff, and your favourite pop culture site will soon take the concept of “time wasting awesomeness on the interwebs” to brave new heights.
Secondly, Your Editor is now doing television reviews for Melbourne breakfast radio show The Breakfasters on RRR every Monday morning. If you’re in Melbourne, tune into 102.7FM. If you’re not (or if you’re addicted to the web LOLOLOLETC) you can stream from rrr.org.au. I am on at 8:15am AEST, OKAY? Okay!
Thirdly, perhaps you are not aware of this but I also do a segment on ABC Perth’s Drive program with Russell Woolf every Tuesday afternoon. I think I am usually on about 3:45pm local time, but I can’t be sure. All I know is that I answer my phone at 5:45pm, and that I really, really struggle with working out time zones.
Fourthly, I am now occasionally doing pop culture spots on ABC Darwin’s Evening show with the lovely Melanie Tait. Keep an ear out, NT-ers.
Fifthly, Blip.fm – how good?! I am obsessed. Consider this link your personal mix tape from Defamer Australia. Oh, and apparently we’re on Twitter now as well. You can follow Defamer Australia by clicking here.
FINALLY…
Welcome to my new favourite song. I dare you not to jive… I dare you. And no, I don’t know what that clip is all about. Is that Spike from Buffy dressed like a Confederate soldier!? What?!
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Flotsam & Jetsam
7:02AM Jess McGuire | Hola, kittens!
I just wanted to have a quick word with you before we kick start another week by taking hits from the pop culture bong.
As you all know, it’s been an unbelievably horrible weekend in Victoria. As I write this, 93 people have been confirmed dead after fires swept the state, which makes this weekend’s bushfires the worst in Australia’s history. The stories I’ve been reading and hearing about entire families losing their lives as they try to escape the flames are heart-wrenching. I know a few people with family in immediate danger, whose childhood homes are at risk, who can’t get in touch with loved ones, and it’s just an unfathomably horrendous situation. I spent my first Victorian New Years on holiday in beautiful Marysville – it’s hard to believe that there’s now one building left standing in the town.
And at times like these, waking up in the morning and writing stories about Lily Allen being unable to buy condoms without getting recognised or posting YouTube videos of angry cats just makes me feel like a complete dick, you know?. But it is what I do, much to my family’s shame, and it’s what you come here for.
But I want you to know that while I won’t be writing much else about the fires on Defamer Australia – god knows there are enough reputable news outlets you can get information from, you don’t need me throwing in my pointless two cents – please don’t think that I don’t care or am too obsessed with Southern Sons’ hits of yesteryear to be following the situation.
Instead, go to The Age or the Herald Sun or any other news site you like, and you’ll find out all you need to know. And so as Your Editor spends the week trawling through the pointless and occasionally amusing world of celebrity and pop culture, know that I do so whilst quietly keeping the folks who have lost everything during the weekend bushfires in my thoughts and prayers. I hope you’ll do the same.
Jess x
MORE:
Australian Red Cross – Victorian bushfires 2009 – Appeal
ABC Online – Offer Help Or Ask For It
Do you need help recovering from the bushfires? – Victoria Online
Incident Updates And Advice – Country Fire Authority
Victorian Bushfire Information Line – 1800 240 667
More »
Letter From The Editor
7:02AM Jess McGuire | Hola, kittens!
I just wanted to have a quick word with you before we kick start another week by taking hits from the pop culture bong.
As you all know, it’s been an unbelievably horrible weekend in Victoria. As I write this, 93 people have been confirmed dead after fires swept the state, which makes this weekend’s bushfires the worst in Australia’s history. The stories I’ve been reading and hearing about entire families losing their lives as they try to escape the flames are heart-wrenching. I know a few people with family in immediate danger, whose childhood homes are at risk, who can’t get in touch with loved ones, and it’s just an unfathomably horrendous situation. I spent my first Victorian New Years on holiday in beautiful Marysville – it’s hard to believe that there’s now one building left standing in the town.
And at times like these, waking up in the morning and writing stories about Lily Allen being unable to buy condoms without getting recognised or posting YouTube videos of angry cats just makes me feel like a complete dick, you know?. But it is what I do, much to my family’s shame, and it’s what you come here for.
But I want you to know that while I won’t be writing much else about the fires on Defamer Australia – god knows there are enough reputable news outlets you can get information from, you don’t need me throwing in my pointless two cents – please don’t think that I don’t care or am too obsessed with Southern Sons’ hits of yesteryear to be following the situation.
Instead, go to The Age or the Herald Sun or any other news site you like, and you’ll find out all you need to know. And so as Your Editor spends the week trawling through the pointless and occasionally amusing world of celebrity and pop culture, know that I do so whilst quietly keeping the folks who have lost everything during the weekend bushfires in my thoughts and prayers. I hope you’ll do the same.
Jess x
MORE:
Australian Red Cross – Victorian bushfires 2009 – Appeal
ABC Online – Offer Help Or Ask For It
Do you need help recovering from the bushfires? – Victoria Online
Incident Updates And Advice – Country Fire Authority
Victorian Bushfire Information Line – 1800 240 667
More » 