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For love or money: how much is too much to save the [Ford Laser] you love?

I love my car like I love hummingbird cake with cream cheese icing – i.e. with all the love in my heart. It’s a red 1987 Ford Laser, classic swamp-brown interior, and smells slightly of mildew after rain. Its name…

Disco Mary Mother of God – The Joy of QVM

One thing I particularly adore about Melbourne is the bountiful supply of kitsch $2 shops and dodgy street merchants, and nowhere provides more lame shopping joy than the Queen Victoria Market. Not only does it provide a huge…

Finding love in Melbourne

Since being decisively dumped, my mind has now turned to the (at least) $50 question: how does one get a man, or woman, in this city? Somebody to-o-o-o love? And how does one find such a person anyway, without getting…

Public Transport A-holes – You Know Who You Are

Catching the train every day puts me in the oh-so fortunate position to be able to see and quietly judge the scum of Melbourne’s public transport system. You know the types - the punk-arse kid sprawled across three…

Let’s Get Trivial at the Stolberg!

Some dorks say that trivia nights in the northern suburbs are not what could be termed, say, “classy entertainment for the under 50s” – but I say they’re five billion percent wrong…