Homer’s back in style and not the yellow one from Springfield there’s no nuclear reactor merely glossy Hollywood i-max factor but not so sexy-rexy not so ruthless cunning leave that cold stuff to the Swedes DiCaprio the Irish the Ruskies please bookshops bulge with odysseys of every shape and size ...with tales of brave Ulysses how his naked ears were tortured... new readers unprepared for this poetic rocky ride as Penelope stitches and unstitches for more than just six minutes and Circe’s...

the ocean is still there bright blue and calm and stretched out flat beneath stalled ships at anchor waiting for the latest gang of thugs to slug it out in gilded suites behind dull desks beneath stern portraits of some other thugs armadas in the doldrums waiting for the coins to drop deals to be struck the ocean is still there the purple gulf the prussian depths hemmed in by soulless and forbidding cliffs of barren real estate parched by an unrelenting sun I know such waters well I scent...

March 7 th TOSSERS no bounce! like watching junior footy Auskick trounced once more by evil empire AFL the Donald Trump of sport world domination crass pursuit of wealth changing rules and fixtures like so many gaudy guernseys and another chance to gouge to turn a buck milk the mugs stiff the punters not give a flying fuck no bounce! the very thing that makes our game unique and quirky that ball would land a dozen different ways depending on the weather wind condition of the turf now it...