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For love or money: how much is too much to save the [Ford Laser] you love?
By Anna Deacon • Dec 11th, 2008 • Section: Melbourne Talks
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
By Anna Deacon • Jul 27th, 2008 • Section: Melbourne Talks
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
By Anna Deacon • Jun 30th, 2008 • Section: Melbourne Talks
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
By Anna Deacon • Jun 28th, 2008 • Section: Melbourne Talks
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!
By Anna Deacon • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Section: Melbourne Talks
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…
