Still Life With Cat

I see the addiction to alliteration persists when people are trying to dream up catchy titles. The meeja seems particularly addicted to putt...

Mungo McCallum on the "debate" in today's Crikey is in form as fine as it ever was back in the day, when he was writing for th...

Tony Abbott's argument against the formal acknowledgement of traditional owners at public gatherings is that it's 'tokenistic...

As though the tragicomic episode a few years back about the Boy Who Everyone Thought Was but Turned Out Not To Be Tony Abbott's Son (so ...

Writers' Week is about to start and I have to do a few things at it, so there's not been a lot of time to blog -- too busy trying to...

Reading my emailed online Age this morning I was a bit shocked to see at the top of the Top Stories the headline 'Praying for twins Tri...

A person could play with this random academic sentence generator (props to my FBF Deborah Green) all afternoon. The real challenge here is ...

To my surprise I made my way through a whopping great list of errands in the city before lunch and am now a whole afternoon ahead of myself,...

Life as a word nerd has some remarkable moments, as when, emerging from the fog of anaesthetic some years back after the same operation from...

And today we have two: 1) "Fraudster" Where did this bit of nonsense excess come from? It looks like tongue-in-cheek vaudeville Y...

Just because I haven't had one for a while. A spy has recently heard and reported back two beauties: 'Do you want an internal line o...

Regular readers of this blog will by now be aware that I am a devoted fan of Guy Rundle's daily reports back to crikey.com.au on the pro...

Did you know that TAIPAN and PINATA are both anagrams of PATINA but that, of the three, Twirl will accept only PATINA as a valid word? No, n...