It was one of those choices I daresay I'll be faced with for some time to come: do I go to a family oriented event, or stay home and do some work? In times past I nearly always chose the former. Not this year – this year I begged off going to...

This quote has been going through my head a lot lately: I'm out here for you! You don't know what it's like to be me out here for you. It is an up-at-dawn pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about! Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) He...

Here's my pile. Yes, it's verysmall this week. It needs supplementing. This is why I'm including Adam's: Wait, one of these is technically mine. I borrowed the Kim Stanley Robinson after I read his fantastic article in the Guardian, angry that...

It was the glasses, or so I thought. How otherwise could the five dollar movie ticket increase be justified on top of what are ordinarily expensive prices? But we all put them on once we sat down, and as the lights dimmed and the 3D trailer came on,...

There was a wedding in Manly on Wednesday. If you happened to be walking past Shelly Beach at 4.30pm, as many people were, with their dogs orwith a baby in a stroller, you would've witnessed two people exchanging their vows before their friends and...