Writing my Fitzroy memories has shown me how faulty the old memory can be. Fortunately the web has come to my aid through the discovery of a wonderful site called All the Stats. It records the scores for every VFL/AFL game since 1897!
Myrtleford Saints on the charge
I went to the football in Myrtleford today and saw the Saints pummel North Albury. Living in Porepunkah it’s considered a little odd that I follow Myrtleford, rather than Bright. I have an interest in Bright football, but not to the same extent. I attribute this to my three years as editor of the Myrtleford [...]
Weather jinx
I’ve been writing here for nearly two years, and just about every time I comment on the weather it changes immediately afterwards to prove me wrong. So I’m now inviting this to occur by remarking on how dry it is here in sunny Porepunkah, and how we haven’t had a cold day yet this year. [...]
The Closet
I watched an excellent French movie on SBS last night called The Closet, starring Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu and Thierry Lhermitte. The main character was a nice, dull accountant who learns that he’s about to be sacked and contemplates suicide. A new-found friend persuades him to pretend that he’s a homosexual, thereby raising the spectre [...]
Literary weather descriptions
I bought a couple of books yesterday and started reading last night for the first time in several months. Unfortunately I’m not off to a good start with Second Time Around by "international best seller" Mary Higgins Clark. The plot starts in shaky fashion with irate shareholders protesting the collapse of a company. Nothing unusual about that, except Clark portrays them as having invested for altruistic reasons to support a cancer cure. On what planet would that happen? She blew me away though with this second-rate description of New York’s weather in April: "The sun was shining and the sky was intensely blue. The few clouds overhead were like puffs of white cushions". Imagine how dull that sentence would have been if the sky had been plain blue instead of "intensely" blue. What’s the difference anyway?
