A few weeks back, I made a last minute decision to run the Murray Bridge Half Marathon with a massive rainbow flag. It wasn't something I dreamed up over time and planned meticulously to be some comprehensive campaign. It was originally a one-off thing born of frustration that people in the LGBTIQ community are constantly, [...]
Anyone who knows me knows I’m scared of lots of stuff including all sorts of creepy crawlies… and snakes. Especially snakes. Australia has twelve of the top ten most dangerous snakes in the world, and I’m scared of all 172 of them. Even the ones that aren’t dangerous. They scare the absolute shit out of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Want to come to Cambodia with me in 2019? A little while back I was approached by a friend of mine who was heading to Cambodia towards the end of January 2019 to run an ultra with some friends. She'd been on both my Bali and Cambodia tours previously, and clearly a glutton for punishment, [...]
OK good folks of the internet, here’s the dealio. When people fuck up, or shit goes tits up, the new buzz word is ‘pivot’. We don’t ‘fail’, we ‘pivot’. We change things up. Most importantly, we don’t fucking quit. We dust ourselves off, adjust ourselves, and take off in a new direction. My new direction [...]
[6 minute read] I recently saw a man attempt to contribute to an online conversation about gender issues. There’s no real need to go into what he had to say, suffice to say it loosely fit into the ‘not all men’ category. (If you really want to see it, I've included it down below.) Although [...]
