The defining moment in The Dictatorcomes when Sacha Baron Cohen sings ‘Ebony and Ivory’ with the decapitated head of a black man.

My Dog Gave Me the Clap Adam Morris Fremantle Press Personally I feel sorry for the dog. Maybe dogs don’t care about these things but if someone gave me the clap, I reckon they’d be mortified if I wrote a book about it. Thankfully, Adam Morris deals with Feathers the dog and his main character […]

Imagine my shock, horror and dismay when I went online to get my Overland fix and got absolutely, wtf, nothing. That’s if you don’t count a message, repeating ad infinitum, that my connection had timed out. Quick to self-blame for technology stuff-ups, I gave myself over to a number of scenarios: had I clicked something […]

A warning first up: if this blog dissolves into nonsensical rambling, please be so kind as to quietly move on to something more substantial. (Pretty much anything on the Overland site without my name attached to it.) Because, quite frankly, this could get quite silly. Last Wednesday night, the lovely Shearer’s bookshop in Leichhardt hosted […]

This Monday morning, I’ve decided to share my growing appreciation of John Clarke and Bryan Dawe: On asylum seekers Gillard’s first interview as PM John Howard and the politics of fear

An Abbottonian prophecy – courtesy of The Onion. (There is, unfortunately, a 15 second advert for Zombieland first.)