When We Were Young…and John was Frida

Being a truly ‘free day’ today, I decided to do something I’d been meaning to do for ages. I went through some old VHS video tapes taken at various conventions and discos that I’d organised in the 80s. I was specifically looking for some performances by my good friend John McKechnie as “Frida”. However I [...]

20 Life Lessons for a Gay Man

This is from the magazine website gay.com. There are a few funnies in here but also some really worthwhile bits of advice. “Here are 20 life lessons for a gay man: 1. If he cheated on his ex, there is a good chance he will cheat on you. 2. Just because he has big feet [...]

Live from Stockholm!

Well, Stockholm in Rhodes, that is. Grant and James had to organise some Swedish food for their Swedish language class on Tuesday night. What to do? Where to go? The solution: IKEA of course! There’s only one IKEA in Sydney now – at Rhodes. For Grant and I it takes a bus and two trains [...]

A great face for radio?

Video might have killed the radio star but since I was never a radio star, I’m giving it a shot. Love to hear your feedback about it.

All change for The Wednesday Night Mothers Club

Since 1993, a group of my friends have generally been found at the pub on Wednesday nights. The actual pub has changed a couple of times over the years and so has the composition of the group of friends. But some constants remain the same. Barring illness or being out of town, the ‘Wednesday Night [...]

They’re not the same song….are they?

Last night at the pub we were having a discussion about Maureen McGovern, the sensational singer of Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno fame. James made a rather sarcastic comment that the themes from these two movies were the same song…The Morning After from Poseidon Adventure and We May Never Love Like This Again from Towering [...]

Lost without you

I feel naked. This morning, trudging down to the station in the pouring rain (summer has finally said goodbye), I came to a very sad realisation. I had left my mobile phone at home. Arghhh!!! I had to be at work to set up for a national meeting so i couldn’t turn around and go [...]

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