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Perfection, Fooled You

A recent article by the The Age's food writer John Lethlean caught my eye. It seems he had been watching Heston Blumenthal's Search For Perfection with the same interest that I wrote about on this blog, but Jo Perfection, Fooled You
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"I used up three silicon-lined vaginas..."

Norman Mailer has been posthumously awarded the 2007 Bad Sex In Fiction Award for this touching depiction of the incestuous conception of Adolf Hitler, as found in Mailer's final novel, The Incestuous Concepti "I used up three silicon-lined vaginas..."
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Tintin in the Land of the Amazing New Centre Right Government

I’m doing a research project on masculinity and public space, which is so fascinating I’ve almost forgotten to enjoy our new centre right government, and the various points in which it differs from Tintin in the Land of the Amazing New Centre Right Government
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A frozen nose, a burnt tongue and a sweet, sugary memory

“You know,” my mother mused aloud as she watched me frowning over a big metal bowl of dough, “most ‘ahjumas‘1 don’t even bother making this from scratch because the packet m A frozen nose, a burnt tongue and a sweet, sugary memory
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Don’t Get Any Big Ideas

Now that the dust has settled on In Rainbows I realize that one of the things that I really love about the record is the fact that Nude FINALLY made it onto a Radiohead album. The song has been kicking around Don’t Get Any Big Ideas
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kevin rudd in hong kong

I was in Hong Kong last week and took these images of the Rudd campaign in Kowloon kevin rudd in hong kong
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Ray Martin Present’s Who Killed Harold Holt?…

Tuesday November 20, 2007 Ray Martin presented a one off special investigating the disappearance of the 17th Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, titled Who Killed Harold Holt?, the program aired at 9:35pm. Ray Martin Present’s Who Killed Harold Holt?…
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Drugs make you look and live like shit.

Last week, on the way back from the Justin Timberlake show (top three all time shows ever), I had some stuff in the car I was going to put in the Vinnies bin, so decided to swing by on the way back.

Drugs make you look and live like shit.
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