I was sussing out the website of a certain national rubbish removal company–it looks like we'll have to move out of our current domicile very soon–and I noted they were making some impressive claims about the scope of their business in little old Perth.  As you can see from their ad below they have Perth covered . They're confident, maybe even a little cocky. The attitude is very much step aside, we got this . If you're not from our minitropolis you may need some help in understanding just how covered from Mount Lawley to Inglewood  really means. I have provided a helpful map below to give you some idea of the awesome distances involved.  The ad then lists the sort of jobs they do and the far flung places to which they travel. If you look at my second map the area in the top half that resembles a lap-banded haggis, represents their zone of operations. No doubt they have plans to extend their business as far as Willetton, Hamersley and Fre...

Unlike Barack Obama who is happy for the Obama for America folk to run his Pinterest, mine is sadly and authentically my own. I usually spend the wee small hours pinning images in a bid to force sleep to steal over me. The picture above is of a raven who was kicking me out of his favourite spot at the Lakeside Joondalup car park.  Click the link and suss out the Phone Slush Pinterest Board that contains other such gems.

Dear Words With Friends, It is my belief you have something against “I”.  Three times I attempted to play this letter in the course of two different games. Each time your Words With Friends “computer” (and I use the term with contempt and derision) decided to rule against the words I had chosen. The examples are below. IGORED  - the past tense of the verb to “Igor” - as in Igor, the munted assistant from Universal Studios' 1930s FRANKENSTEIN movie franchise. To Igor is to assist someone and endure his or her withering scorn and derision, to become their scapegoat. Thus Anne Hathaway’s character igors for Meryl Streep’s character in 2006 movie THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. ZIGIROS -  A well-regarded Icelandic party band that have never won a Eurovision Song Contest ITA  - in Australia, Ita Buttrose is the name of one of our secular saints*. She was the founding editor of Cleo, the editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly and she more or less invented...

Folks, I need to harness your considerable expertise with the Internets. A bunch of skeezy spammers have found a way to put their links to their rubbishy "adwords" business into posts on this here blog (see post below - but obviously don't click on their links). I have tried a number of things to deal with this, but so far to no avail. I have changed my Google Password thrice, gone to to two-step verification, I have reported both the URLs in the post itself. I don't particularly want to delete this blog, because I would feel that way the terrorists win. I want to enjoy the taste of Freedom Fries, not the bitter tang of Spam. What can I do to kick out these unwanted contributors to this blog and return to the regular schedule of lightweight posts about popular culture and zany Western Australian licence plates?

Apparently, yes. Pish tish to those nay sayers,  including myself, who say nay to using Brush Script  as a font style on a public building! The Reynolds Road Doctors Collectivo (or whatever they call themselves) seem more than happy to brand themselves thusly. More power to their elbow we say. 

If you weren’t awake between 1.30-3.30 am in Australie this morning, you may have missed the movie C.H.O.M.P.S  on 7TWO which was more or less about a young man (Wesley Eure) who made a robot dog that could see through walls and sense when crime was about to occur; so the mutt had Minority Report moves. As nearly as I could tell the young fella did all this to impress Valerie Bertinelli from ONE DAY AT A TIME, HOT IN CLEVELAND and the Cindy Crawford “Meaningful Beauty” infomercial (also a fave of insomniacs everywhere). Everything about this movie was cartoonishly poor and it turned out that animation legend Joseph Barbera helped to write the screenplay. There was a cast of veterans including Jim Backus, Red Buttons and Conrad Bain. Apart from this, the only other thing going for it was the cross-sectional robot dog models (as seen in top photo). In addition to robo-Benji there was also a couple of Doberman cross-sections that were probably the work of some obsessive in t...