I don’t know how many times I had two-minute noodles while I was growing up. Definitely hundreds of times, if not thousands. I ate a lot of them when I was a struggling student, and later in my thirties, when we were a single income household with a big mortgage, they were a staple item. […]
Eurovision is a strange competition. I’ve stumbled over it playing on SBS on a Sunday night, a peculiar parade of quirky and odd acts vying to win a title for a well written song. The glaring chasms of cross cultural differences exposed through music and dance. It quickly sucks you in though, what starts as […]
At last month’s Equal Love rally in Perth there was a notable growing feeling of frustration and anger amongst the crowd. While the protest march drew a smaller crowd than previous outings, the vibe was distinctly different. During the March the protestors stopped on William Street and sat down, bringing the city’s traffic to a […]
In this month’s edition of Sports Illustrated Magazine American pro-basketball player Jason Collins has announced that he is gay. In doing so Collins became the first professional American athelete, playing a team sport, to ever declare that they are same sex attracted. Upon first hearing the news you might wonder why this is such a […]
Last month as soon as the March edition of OUTinPerth hit the streets my partner and I headed to the airport for an overseas holiday which began with a ten day stay in New York City. One afternoon, upon exiting my favourite NYC music store Other Music, we saw a giant billboard on the back […]
At the start of every year Lake Superior State University in the USA releases its list of banished words. It’s a collection of words and phrases that the academics deem to be overused in the media and society in general. This year for their 38th annual list they included phrases such as “spoiler alert, Y.O.L.O, […]
Opinion Pride WA has announced that they are unsure of their financial status and have ceased operations while they take stock of where they are. The organisation will have an AGM later this month where finances will be discussed; the future will be pondered and if the organisation continues, new committee members will be selected. […]
Its 2013, it’s a year that features a number that some may consider unlucky, but let’s not start of the year with worry. It’s the first time since 1987 that the year features four different digits, while it’s been 26 years since that last happened, you’ll have to wait until 2020 until the year next […]
It’s the end of the year and it’s the season of resolutions. Why make a New Year resolution? The first of January is really no different to the other 364 days of the year. Yet it’s natural at the end of the year to take that moment to pause and reflect on where you are […]
Matt Groening parodied Leonardo da Vinci’s the last supper, placing Homer Simpson as Jesus with his fellow drinking budies of Moe’s tavern around him. When Sci-Fi Series Battlestar Galatica launched their final season the seductive Cylon Six sat in the centre. For fantasy TV show Lost it was Locke who held court, while for The […]
