Category Archive: The Arts

Great Superheroes Of Yesteryear

I am sure we are all thoroughly acquainted with classic superheroes who have been lucky enough to go the distance, starting their careers in the Thirties, Forties and Fifties (what comic book nerds call “The Golden Age” and everyone else calls the Thirties, Forties and Fifties,) or the Sixties and Seventies (what everyone now calls …

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How To Be An Indi-Bloody-vidual

Evidence that Australia has inflicted worse things than Russell Crowe on the world. Mark Jackson, best known by the wildly imaginative nickname of “Jacko,” was a one time football player who in 1981 suffered massive brain damage while taking part in Sydney’s annual Running of the Wallabies – the overly frugal Jackson had bent down …

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Pavarotti Vs Sutherland. Well, not quite…

From the Kitten Kong episode of  the classic British comedy The Goodies… The Goodies? What the hell is “The Goodies,” I hear you ask. This is The Goodies.  

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