Author Archives: rottobloggo

a three-hour tour

Posted on September 2, 2013 by rottobloggo

Mindarie Marina. Even if the whale-watching is exactly 180 minutes, would you really want to tempt fate? I would advertising a three-hour-and-one-minute tour, just to be on the safe side. If TWoP was on the SS Minnow: The skipper is Snuff, … Continue reading →

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Outrage Sunday 112 When Macca Writes Your Love Story

Posted on September 1, 2013 by rottobloggo

G’day TWOPpers. What the heck-diddly has been going on with Wikipedia? Monday’s feature story was When God Writes Your Love Story, then Friday they had Everything Tastes Better With Bacon. What? Even a copy of Cloudstreet?Just as well I’d made … Continue reading →

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“thrown out”

Posted on August 30, 2013 by rottobloggo

Perhaps not the best headline, in the circumstances…

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print pottymouth

Posted on August 28, 2013 by rottobloggo

Maaaaaate! David Bell has acquired more noms de guerre than this reporter. The hard-charging newshound we know as Jezza Bell and Ding Dong Bell can now be referred to as Swear Bear. The evidence? This front page from Teh Chook. … Continue reading →

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vibrant vista Mt Hawthorn

Posted on August 26, 2013 by rottobloggo

Solar panels! What will these clever developers think of next? I do hope you’ll join me on the Bravo viewing platform on Oxford Street (aka Neasden-in-the-Sun), drinking sparkling, thinking, ‘If we lived here we’d be home by now’. I know … Continue reading →

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Outrage Sunday 111 Crowned

Posted on August 25, 2013 by rottobloggo

An exchange between an employee sitting by a lift and an exuberant young patron summed up the night. “You have to wear dress shoes to get in.” “Gnaargghaaabaaaah.” “Dress shoes next time.” As we joined the young man to ascend … Continue reading →

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Battle of Wipers

Posted on August 21, 2013 by rottobloggo

From Scott towels to the real thing: it’s escalating. I’m not sure this is what Sir Frederick had in mind.

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The West Australian: great success!

Posted on August 19, 2013 by rottobloggo

I found Saturday’s page 3 report gratifying. The West is “among the most successful in Australia”. Heartening news for these troubled times. The weekend edition “is now only a few hundred copies away from being the country’s second-biggest selling newspaper … Continue reading →

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Outrage Sunday 110 you mug

Posted on August 18, 2013 by rottobloggo

The silicon chip inside my head was switched to overload earlier this week.The next day I was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail … Continue reading →

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Combat Softair Brindisi

Posted on August 13, 2013 by rottobloggo

We live in an age when even T-shirts have haiku qualities. I have been repolishing my efforts since TLA’s reminder yesterday, and also worrying if Snuff-san has been blown off Cebu Island. But then I see artefacts like this on … Continue reading →

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