Films and TV

Important Public Service Announcement

Club Troppo - May 2, 2008 - 12:42pm

The new season of Australia’s Next Top Model has started. And you know what that means — each episode is being forensically funnied by PetStarr of Bland Canyon:

OHM OY GOURD CAN YOY EVEN BELOYVE IT?

ANTM is like, totally on again! And after winning fans, admiration and even the blessing of the anointed one, ANTM3 winner Alice Burdeu (I’m not kidding - see that big old quote over on the right there? That ain’t made up you know), I’ve decided to get back on the model rollercoaster and blog ANTM4 for your reading pleasure. Read more »

Here comes Clay Shirky

Club Troppo - April 21, 2008 - 8:01pm

I’m reading one of the better Web 2.0 books around instructively and amusingly called Here comes everybody which Peter Gallagher told me today came from Finnigan’s Wake. I thought I was terribly clever when I discovered this book on the net within a day or so of it having been published and had it shipped here by Amazon. And then I saw the paperback sitting smiling back at me at the ‘new bestsellers’ part of Readings Bookshop.  So no brownie points for me. Read more »