Obscure Box

Just for the record, so you know where I’m coming from. The rise of citizen journalist and blogging is about as much a threat to mainstream journalism as backyard footy is to the Premier league, or amateur dramatics is to to the professional stage. Blogs are a great place for some people to learn the [...]

The headline “Clinton not entitled to veep spot” (Friday 16 May 2008) from the website of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer had me puzzled. What’s a “veep” and why can’t (Hillary) Clinton have one? Should I have one? Maybe I’ve already got one already but don’t know it? Search the web for “veep” and you find there’s [...]

Who first mentioned the link between Hillary Clinton’s ailing campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination and the scene with the Black Knight from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail? This Monday the ABC’s Tony Eastley introduced a piece “Clinton’s hopes of nomination grim” (Monday 12 May 2008) on the AM program with reference [...]

The sales will prove me wrong but I’m puzzled as to why anyone would buy the DVD boxed set of the last three Indiana Jones movies. The fourth film in the trilogy will hit cinema screens witin days, which means the fourth DVD will hit stores a few months later. So why spend up to [...]

Police in Alice Springs were understandably “shocked and appalled” after they pulled over a driver who’d fastened a seatbelt around his slab of beer and NOT his five-year-old boy. In the Northern Territory News story “Beer strapped in, not boy ” (Wednesday 14 May 2008) Constable Wayne Burnett says: “This is the first time that [...]