So I roll into Coober Pedy on Friday to run a marathon the following day. I see the two big Wind Farm propeller things, and wonder, does two even qualify as a ‘farm’? And fuck, there's literally not a breath of wind so they’re not doing much. Which is exactly what I’ll be doing while [...]
I think one of the secrets to being happy, is finding the hilarity in shitty situations. So let me tell you about the Amy Shark concert last night. I'm a massive Amy Shark fan, but have to say, the show last night was one of the worst I've been to in a very long time for many [...]
After I left the ABC yesterday at stupid O’clock in the morning, I wrote quite a long post about feeling like a failure. Don’t get me wrong, I’d had a great session on-air and felt really good about it, but it got me thinking about stuff. The post was pretty personal, and right when I [...]
A few years ago I noticed a bit of a pattern: I'd limp into the end of year thinking 'thank fuck that's over!'. And to be fair, there were a few challenging years in there for sure. But a couple of years back I made a conscious decision to look back at my year a [...]
The other day I saw a teeth whitening ad, and I thought, "who the fuck gets to decide what colour our teeth 'should' be? That bright white is beautiful, and the colour they actually, naturally are, is not?". This morning while I was having breakfast and the local 'spoggies', (House Sparrows), were tucking in to [...]
Yesterday in Australia we had a thing called 'The Melbourne Cup' - a horse race that supposedly 'stops the nation'. And as always, Australians spent an astronomical amount of money gambling on it and the associated races. In 2016 the figure was $657 million in just four days. That seems like quite a fucking lot [...]
I won’t be telling you anything new if I spend too much time describing all the shit things about social media. If you’re on it, you almost certainly already know. It’s a cesspit for negativity, toxicity, whinging, racism, hate and outrage. And worse, it’s trained people to be all those things in increasing amounts in [...]
It seems one of the catch cries of the time we find ourselves in right now is “but I’m entitled to my opinion” which, more often than not, roughly translated, means “I’m an asshole and don’t give a fuck about your feelings”. Because if someone told you they were upset by something you’d said and [...]
This run event review's a bit of a different one, and not part of my low/no cost races in South Australia, but a true 'destination marathon' for people from all over the world. I've run it twice now, in 2017 and again this year in 2018, and even though it's a relatively small field, there [...]
As you no doubt know by now, the new 'Dream Crazy' campaign by Nike (below) has already generated a shit tonne of conversation. Rather than add to the obvious "Kaepernick this/Kaepernick that" ruckus, I'd like to point out what no one is saying about it. Does the negative reaction to the Kaepernick component of [...]
