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Farewell Video Ezy

Posted on February 28, 2015

The screen is fading to black. The credits are about to roll. Brookfield’s Video Ezy, my local video store, is closing down.

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Fifty Shades of Grey is cinematic junk food

Posted on February 20, 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey is such an obvious target for moral outrage that railing against it almost becomes meaningless.

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2014 in review: not enough reading but plenty of creativity

Posted on December 20, 2014

In the same way that every good book leads to another good book, every piece of creativity generates more creativity.

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No longer centre of the universe

Posted on November 15, 2014

... I have been thinking about empathy, about how hard it is to view the world through anything other than our own egocentric perspective. That’s because we liv...

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How To Train Your Haircut

Posted on July 18, 2014

... "And so another round of school holidays careens towards its noisy conclusion." A tale of movies, sickness, soccer and bad haircuts.

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Everything is awesome in Legoland

Posted on May 3, 2014

... If you had asked me last week what my favourite toy was as a kid, I would have scratched my head for a while. My matchbox cars? My plastic army men?

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