Memories of a rock star drowning in wine |
Richard Jinman July 25, 2009THE man in the black suit squints in the winter sun. "We worked hard on him," he says, summoning four-decade old memories of those frantic minutes in the emergency room of ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:17:00 GMT |
Technology and the death of ideas |
The worker who sleeps with BlackBerry within touching distance, the girl sitting alone in the cafe but texting furiously while waiting for a friend, the woman on the bus on her mobile telling a friend...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:38:00 GMT |
CSI Australia... accused sex-doll thief left DNA at the scene |
Police have arrested a man accused of breaking into a string of north Queensland adult shops and having sex with blow-up dolls.
The 23-year-old Manunda man, whose name has been withheld, was charge...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:33:00 GMT |
Where's Charles Bronson when you need him? |
British police say two robbers broke into an elderly woman's home, stole money and then snapped the neck of her pet budgerigar in front of her.
Police in the Welsh city of Cardiff say the killing o...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:37:00 GMT |
Watch out Kim Jong-Il, Tom's got your number |
US actor Tom Cruise said on Sunday he had always dreamt of killing Adolf Hitler, revealing one of his motives for starring in his latest film featuring a plot to murder the Nazi leader.
In Valkyrie...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:34:00 GMT |
Do sharks understand irony? |
White pointers caused terror on opposite sides of Australia yesterday, with snorkeller Brian Guest killed as he swam with his son at a beach near Perth.Sydney paddlers Justin Stanger and Steve Kulscar...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:22:00 GMT |
Method acting gone mad |
An actor has almost died after slashing his throat on stage with a real knife instead of a blunt prop knife.Actor Daniel Hoevels collapsed at Vienna's Burgtheater in Austria with blood pouring from hi...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:39:00 GMT |
The real "bad Santa" |
LONDON: Angry parents have beaten up Santa and three of his elves after taking their children to visit a "rip-off" Christmas grotto in England.Visitors who forked out £30 ($69) a ticket to enter the g...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:30:00 GMT |
Tribute to Mitch Mitchell |
Never has a drummer, let alone a kid from England, been able not only to uncannily reproduce the essence of the jazz genius Elvin Jones, but also able to effortlessly translate that energy into a rock...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:17:00 GMT |
Another thing that makes me really angry... |
... is when people try to speak with jokey Scottish accents and it sounds really crap. Why do they do it?
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:26:00 GMT |
