the age
Flotsam & Jetsam
9:54AM Jess McGuire | The following article in yesterday’s edition of The Age about a monthly Melbourne craft night called Trashbag Rehab contained a sentence that delighted me immensely, and I figured you may get some joy from reading it too. More »
Crafty Vaginas
9:54AM Jess McGuire | The following article in yesterday’s edition of The Age about a monthly Melbourne craft night called Trashbag Rehab contained a sentence that delighted me immensely, and I figured you may get some joy from reading it too. More » 
Small Screen
1:48PM Jess McGuire | I enjoyed Marieke Hardy’s column in The Age today about The Biggest Loser finale & Sunday night’s Logies ceremony very much, and thought I should bring it to your attention. More »
The Logies Are “The B And S ball Of Australian Television”
1:48PM Jess McGuire | I enjoyed Marieke Hardy’s column in The Age today about The Biggest Loser finale & Sunday night’s Logies ceremony very much, and thought I should bring it to your attention. More »
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9:28AM Jess McGuire | Readers of The Age would have noticed that striking columnist Catherine Deveny made a return to the paper yesterday. No doubt her supporters are pumping their fists in the air and her haters are cursing her name – and God saw that it was good. More »
The Dev Is Back!
9:28AM Jess McGuire | Readers of The Age would have noticed that striking columnist Catherine Deveny made a return to the paper yesterday. No doubt her supporters are pumping their fists in the air and her haters are cursing her name – and God saw that it was good. More »
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2:39PM Jess McGuire | Catherine Deveny Strike Update: it’s still going. Paul Ramadge, the editor of The Age, recently spoke to Jon ‘Faino’ Faine from 774 ABC Melbourne about the state of his paper, and exactly what’s happening with smart-mouthed underpaid columnist Catherine Deveny. Thanks to The Australian, here’s a quick transcript of the interesting parts.
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The Editor Of The Age Talks To Jon Faine About Striking Columnist
2:39PM Jess McGuire | Catherine Deveny Strike Update: it’s still going. Paul Ramadge, the editor of The Age, recently spoke to Jon ‘Faino’ Faine from 774 ABC Melbourne about the state of his paper, and exactly what’s happening with smart-mouthed underpaid columnist Catherine Deveny. Thanks to The Australian, here’s a quick transcript of the interesting parts.
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12:59PM Jess McGuire | Hope you enjoyed the article we pointed out in The Age last week by The Dev (as I like to refer to Catherine Deveny) as it might be the last one you get from her for a while. The Australian is reporting The Dev is on strike! More »
The Age’s Catherine Deveny On Strike
12:59PM Jess McGuire | Hope you enjoyed the article we pointed out in The Age last week by The Dev (as I like to refer to Catherine Deveny) as it might be the last one you get from her for a while. The Australian is reporting The Dev is on strike! More »
Music
4:48PM Jess McGuire | I thought you lot might find Patrick Donovan’s article in The Age about the Sound Relief concerts’ conception interesting, especially if you need something to occupy your time while you wait for the world’s most amazing collaboration ever to happen.
Gudinski’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since he announced details of the concerts that will be held simultaneously at the MCG and SCG tomorrow on Channel 9’s Australia Unites telethon last month.
The first person Gudinski spoke to was his former Frontier Touring partner and sometime rival Michael Chugg, who was already planning a concert with ARIA Awards organiser Mark Pope. They decided to run the concerts simultaneously under the one banner in two cities.
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The Story Behind This Weekend’s Sound Relief Concerts
4:48PM Jess McGuire | I thought you lot might find Patrick Donovan’s article in The Age about the Sound Relief concerts’ conception interesting, especially if you need something to occupy your time while you wait for the world’s most amazing collaboration ever to happen.
Gudinski’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since he announced details of the concerts that will be held simultaneously at the MCG and SCG tomorrow on Channel 9’s Australia Unites telethon last month.
The first person Gudinski spoke to was his former Frontier Touring partner and sometime rival Michael Chugg, who was already planning a concert with ARIA Awards organiser Mark Pope. They decided to run the concerts simultaneously under the one banner in two cities.
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7:52AM Jess McGuire | I really liked Marieke Hardy’s opinion piece in The Age about the media frenzy regarding the recent Victorian bushfires, so I urge you to go and read it. Here’s a taste.
…when you’re on your fourth or fifth day of coverage and you see a television journalist standing next to a car, hard up for content and prodding a grey-faced driver with the question: “Guess you’ve lost a lot of friends up on that mountain … must feel pretty bad … how would you describe how that feels exactly?” that you start to wonder whether you’re beginning to be party to preying upon the raw grief of others and that perhaps it’s time to put the goddamned cameras away.
I agree with her sentiments wholeheartedly – read the whole article here. That is all.
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This Is Very Good.
7:52AM Jess McGuire | I really liked Marieke Hardy’s opinion piece in The Age about the media frenzy regarding the recent Victorian bushfires, so I urge you to go and read it. Here’s a taste.
…when you’re on your fourth or fifth day of coverage and you see a television journalist standing next to a car, hard up for content and prodding a grey-faced driver with the question: “Guess you’ve lost a lot of friends up on that mountain … must feel pretty bad … how would you describe how that feels exactly?” that you start to wonder whether you’re beginning to be party to preying upon the raw grief of others and that perhaps it’s time to put the goddamned cameras away.
I agree with her sentiments wholeheartedly – read the whole article here. That is all.
MORE: Time for media circus to fold up its tents More » Not To Dwell On The Subject Or Anything…
11:49AM Jess McGuire | I know I promised to give the topic of Beyonce’s Single Ladies a rest, and I swear to you I’m not about to pop another clip of someone dancing to it up here or anything, but I did want to point out that Defamer Australia is obviously not the only one with Single Ladies choreography on the brain.
Beyonce’s latest hit, Single Ladies, has stormed the Australian charts over the holiday period, but did you know that the video for the song was based around a viral YouTube clip? Check out the remix of this old America TV dance routine below.
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11:01AM Jess McGuire | Have you seen The Age’s feature on Catherine Deveny today? Quite the raunchy picture accompanying it, I’m sure you’ll agree. The Dev has a new book out featuring her best columns (”An oxymoron, surely?! Barbarians at the gate, Horatio on the bridge!” – Andrew Bolt) and the stuff Fairfax wouldn’t publish, and she’s doing a book signing at 12:30pm at Readings in Carlton, so if you’re around and you’re a fan, you should pop in.
Anyway, back to The Age article. It is revealing!
“If I’d been allowed to bonk at home, I never would have left,” she explains. Of course, she was not allowed, so she moved into a Fitzroy terrace with three mates. It remains the happiest time of her life. She grew vegies in the back yard, smoked dope and had lots of sex. She had her heart broken. She stayed out late, slept in and listened to her housemates’ Pixies records.
She merrily throws criticism at the direction of the ABC – and she works for them! More »
Well HELLO THERE, Catherine Deveny!
11:01AM Jess McGuire | Have you seen The Age’s feature on Catherine Deveny today? Quite the raunchy picture accompanying it, I’m sure you’ll agree. The Dev has a new book out featuring her best columns (”An oxymoron, surely?! Barbarians at the gate, Horatio on the bridge!” – Andrew Bolt) and the stuff Fairfax wouldn’t publish, and she’s doing a book signing at 12:30pm at Readings in Carlton, so if you’re around and you’re a fan, you should pop in.
Anyway, back to The Age article. It is revealing!
“If I’d been allowed to bonk at home, I never would have left,” she explains. Of course, she was not allowed, so she moved into a Fitzroy terrace with three mates. It remains the happiest time of her life. She grew vegies in the back yard, smoked dope and had lots of sex. She had her heart broken. She stayed out late, slept in and listened to her housemates’ Pixies records.
She merrily throws criticism at the direction of the ABC – and she works for them! More » Blog Hating Jim Schembri Gets Abused At The AFI Awards, Responds Like An Angry Blogger.
3:55PM Jess McGuire | Ah, public spats – you gotta love ‘em. The one I’m currently viewing from afar involves an AFI award winner, a well-timed profanity, and one hurt pissed off critic.
Let’s allow Jim Schembri, film reviewer for The Age and blog-hating blogger, tell his own tale of woe.
A telling thing happened at the AFI Awards on Saturday night. And it was all because of me.
While accepting an award for best original screenplay for The Black Balloon, co-writer Jimmy Jack took public exception to my long-standing criticisms of the Australian film industry, and of his film. He read some of it out, then followed it by saying “Jim Schembri. F*** you.”
This undignified descent into blogspeak – whatever remaining shreds of class the AFI awards had are now gone – reportedly drew a spontaneous round of applause from some in the crowd.
I didn’t realise the term “Jim Schembri. Fuck you!” was official blogspeak, but as a Professional Blogger TM, I plan on finishing every post with it from now on as I would hate to be seen as behind the interweb times! The other bloggers would, like, totes stop linking to me!! OMG
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