August 2008
9 posts
Journalists should spend more time clubbing
Forget journalism school. Wannabe-journalists should go clubbing. If it’s not your scene, just take disco drugs - you’ll soon get comfortable and it’ll probably help.
I’ve spent the last two days calling brothels and trying to find student prostitutes (that is, prostitutes who are students, as opposed to people learning how to be prostitutes). It ruined my snowboarding...
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Words I Think I Know the Meaning of But it Turns...
I like to tell myself that I’m a journalist, maybe even amateur writer. I might even tell other people this sometimes. So words are supposed to be my craft.
I use these words in conversation, sometimes quite often, but it turns out that I don’t actually know what they mean. My theory is that making a list of these words will 1. help me learn the real meanings of words, and 2. serve as...
“In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed...”
– Mark Twain
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How to Score in a Meat Market
KB International in Surry Hills gives away gigantic meat trays as raffle prizes. We won one last Friday night. It caused men to behave strangely towards us.
At the end of the night, my girlfriend and I find ourselves trotting along Foveaux St to a soundtrack of admiring male commentary, but not the usual, inane, ball-scratching, unintelligible, cat-calling and wolf-whistling. It was polite, even...
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Your Local Pub May One Day Save You From A Psycho...
I have two new flatmates. I think one of them might be a closet lesbian who is secretly in love with her ‘best friend’, the other new flatmate. To cut two long stories short, I’ve been home alone on a Saturday night twice now when Psycho Closet Lesbian has come home in the middle of the night, holed herself up in her room and started wailing hysterically. Hysterically. The second time this...
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No Over-Achievers Allowed
Overachieving should be a crime. Except that all the people who make up laws are probably overachievers themselves.
My journalism lecturer told us a story about a former student who now works at The Australian. This student supposedly met the editor at an awards night – the student won Young Journalist of the Year – and three weeks later, had a permanent, full-time position at one of...