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May 18, 2006

Bastards

What did I tell ya? Collingwood keeps its TAC sponsorship. Richmond must be spewing.

Posted by Peter at 02:27 PM | Comments (5)

MacBooks

And I'm due a new computer in September. Delightful

Posted by Peter at 02:26 PM | Comments (5)

Nathan Carroll - The Mystery

Finally, the behind the scenes sports expose we've been waiting for.

Posted by Peter at 02:24 PM | Comments (2)

May 17, 2006

It's In The Blood

PeteTomDees
Originally uploaded by Glutbuster.

Regular readers of this blog (both of you) will know of my dedication to the Melbourne Football Club. Here it is in earlier times.

This photograph has been pinned to my father's pinboard at his various offices for as long as I can remember. That's me on the right, and my middle brother, Tom, on the left. We are at Merimbula, at Easter, around the mid 80s, and we'd just had a kick with our new birthday footy.

Note the following:

1. The fact that we are not twins apparently did not preclude my mother from dressing us in matching Adidas Rome, sports socks, boardshorts, Swatch watches and Dees jumpers.

2. Our healthy glow and hopeful faces - our cheerful outlook on life has not yet been dashed by Jim Stynes running across the mark to deny Melbourne its first Grand Final berth in 27 years, nor by the flogging Hawthorn gave us when we finally got there in 1988.

3. Our unfortunate haircuts.

What the photo doesn't show you is that Tom by this stage could already kick and handball with both feet and would frequently come off the victor in the endless games of "Marks" we played in the backyard. "Marks" consisted of us standing at opposite ends of the garden, throwing the ball up somewhere in the middle, and running at each other, trying either to take the mark or to inflict maximum pain by delivering a knee to the ribcage.

There was also an indoor version played on our knees with a fluffy footy in the hallway. It was much better for body on body work.

Go Dees.

Posted by Peter at 03:39 PM | Comments (26)

A Lovely Story

The Two Of Us
Originally uploaded by Glutbuster.

Finally I get around to uploading the Two Of Us I mentioned in the sidebar. Viewing the big version of it on flickr should make it readable.

Enjoy. Cry.

Posted by Peter at 02:08 PM | Comments (72)

May 09, 2006

The Two Of Us in

The Two Of Us in The Age / SMH Good Weekend this week was an incredibly touching testament to love, friendship and education. I can't find it online. If you would like to read it, let me know (peter AT glutbusters DOT com) and I will send you a copy in the post.

Posted by Peter at 12:42 AM | Comments (7)

May 08, 2006

Pure genius

Not only did Daniel Kitson make me laugh for two hours, he crystallised an entire framework for living one's life. He's undoubtedly a genius.

Posted by Peter at 10:02 PM | Comments (3)

Camp as a row of pink frilly tents

Join me and Jellyfish as we marvel at the Broadway genius that is Mandy Patinkin, touring Australia in June. It'll be the campest night ever.

Posted by Peter at 10:01 PM | Comments (9)

Gutless Wonders

By now we've all seen Warnie in his nude romp with a couple of models, captured nicely by the News Of The World overnight.

Sure, it's smutty. But I have a certain grudging respect for publications that are so baldly open about their smuttiness. The first time I opened up The Sun to page three, I was frankly shocked and more than a little thrilled to see Simone from Somerset (who is studying economics and loves going dancing with her girlfriends) smiling back at me, Venutis proudly on show. "Hello there," she seemed to be saying. "You seem like a nice fella. How do you like the look of my knockers?"

But it was honest. "If you want tits, lads, here they are."

So, editorial staff at The Age, don't treat us as morons by trying to pass the Warne story off as "news". I know, you saw a brilliant yarn, complete with tits, and wanted in. But your self-righteousness wouldn't allow you to simply run the story - it's little more than a tawdry piece of tabloid entrapment and you know it. So you tried to dress it up as some sort of commentary on the vapidity of the English press.

"Another sex story has appeared in the British tabloids." (Filthy bastards - but check out the photos!)"

"Pictures in Sunday's edition of the tabloid News of the World show Warne and two 25-year-old models involved in sexual positions with a blow up toy." (Tabloid! They don't have Michelle Grattan! But phwoar! That's the biggest rubber cock we've ever seen!)

"One of the models, Coralie Eiccholtz, has known Warne for a few years." (Dirty English tart. You should be reading Ross Gittins intead. But before you do, check her norgs!)

If you want to show tits, Andrew Jaspan, just show tits. I will judge you accordingly (and probably enjoy it just a little bit). But don't treat me as an idiot by dressing it up as news. It's pretentious and condescending and insulting.

Posted by Peter at 08:48 PM | Comments (7)