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About Me

Melbourne-based nitwit with a rather sad interest in old TV and radio.
A notable non-achiever in many and varied areas:
* Co-authored a book on Aussie TV quiz and game shows which no-one bought, and just had another one published - this one's in America, meaning I'm now being abjectly ignored by a bigger audience than ever before...
* Presenter of radio programs which no-one listens to - on three stations, no less: 88.6 Plenty Valley FM, 96.5 Inner FM, and Deluxe UK,
* Uploads photos to a Flickr account which no-one visits:
* Lists stuff on eBay which no-one buys,
* And types crap like this into a MySpace page which only reeeeally bored people read (yes, that's right,YOU!).
Yep, my life is crap - but hey, things could be worse!
And probably will be, in the fullness of time...
If you've nothing better to do (and even if you have...) swing past 88.6 Plenty Valley FM some Saturday night at 6, and catch "The Heat Is On" - an eclectic 2 hour pot-pourri of music from the '60's to today, dispensed on alternating weeks by m'self, and Rob Puglielli , and Lindi .
Or, grab a cheerful earful of "The Overnight Cafe", broadcast to the largely ungrateful masses at the gentle hours of 2 to 7, Saturday mornings on 96.5 Inner FM . Hosted by Lenny Everett , and good ol' Dr. K (ie: Me!..).

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

JFK (just to ask who actually shot him), James Dean (just to tell him what a crap actor he was...), George W Bush (for bitch-slapping purposes), Pete Townshend (a personal fave), Keira Knightley / Katrina Warren / Kendal Nagorcka / Nikki Osborne / Chelsea Butler (do I really have to tell you why? Can't you guess?), and a few others...

Also a couple of people from my past I'd dearly love to get in touch with again... y'know, "lost loves" and all that... I won't, though - far too possible that "stalking" charges might arise as a result...

Perhaps MySpace should offer another category: "People I've met, that I wish I HADN'T". That one'd be an absolute pisser, but the page ain't big enough to fit 'em all on...

UPDATE: By the way, I DON'T do those silly bloody "applications", so best to do us both a favour, and not send me any of those dopey requests, yeah? Don't ask me to join your Vampire team, don't tell me how much you just bought me for ('cos I'll just laugh at you having been ripped off...), etc.They annoy the living tripe out of me - "Fred Nurk wants to club baby seals with you!", "Joe Blow wants to snort Drano with you!", "George W Bush wants you to help him find the WMD's!". Shit, if you want to say "hello", just say "hello"...

My Blog

Of Mixed Blessings

Been a while since the last blog, so time for an update, I guess....I've nothing earth-shattering to impart, I'm afraid. Fairly little has happened to me over the last six weeks or so.To those around ...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:15:00 GMT

Fitness? It doth suck greatly...

It's that time of the year again - Summer. Time to attempt to doff the poundage stacked on over Autumn / Winter / and most of f***ing Spring...And, inspired (and bedevilled / haunted / crushed) by hav...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:01:00 GMT

Stories That May Not Be True, Volume 2

The Place: MelbourneThe Time: Ummmm... can I get back to you on that? Ta...Outside a busy suburban shopping centre, a group of pedestrians are busily attempting to solve the riddle of "Why the chicken...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:50:00 GMT

Stories That May Not Be True, Volume 1

The Place? Burwood, Victoria.The Time? The Seventies.The setting for our story is the hub of local culture and activity in Burwood - McDonald's.There's a certain, palpable something in the air, other ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:02:00 GMT

Author, Author!!

As you'll have noted from my Profile (if you've come this far, surely you'll have read it...), I'm a "television historian".Which basically means that I spend a stack-load of time sitting on my duff, ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:34:00 GMT

Ooooohhh, Im DYYYIN...

Contracted a monster case of 'flu last week...Worst I've ever had, in fact. My head was the new home of Australia's third-largest mucus-producing factory, the fever I had was contributing to Global Wa...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:03:00 GMT

How To (Almost...) Kill A Marriage...

The story you are about to read is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the........ guilty.I occasionally sit in on an overnight radio show run by a pal, Lenny Everett.(The show, incident...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:08:00 GMT

Acknowledgement of one's existence - a wonderful thing...

I'm rather chuffed, at present... As you'd have gathered from my last two posts, I've recently become somewhat enamoured of a TV personality. Female, obviously. Generally, I tend to be of a shallow na...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:29:00 GMT

And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'... (or "How Being Fit Can Still Be Bad For You")

Let's be frank ("No, you be Frank - I'll be John") - I'm overweight. Have been for a while.Lately, however, there have subtle changes. Put plainly, I've been porking up. Increasing weight. Getting big...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:19:00 GMT

2007 - just like 2006, only later...

So, two weeks in, it seems that my 2007 will either be no better than my 2006, or possibly worse. I'm happy to be proven wrong by events subsequent to this rant, but at this point, I'm tippi...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:02:00 GMT