‘General Thoughts’ Articles
Written by Tony on 06 August 2010
Apart from the dodgy nom de plume (Mungo Adonis? Seriously? From someone whose second name is Ramsay???) this is a cool article which draws a link between Lindsay Lohan’s underwear and the Protection of Information bill. I kid you not. Worth a read. Death by paper « Absolutely Zo?. [Continue]
Written by Tony on 05 August 2010
Reported on Times Live ….and about time too. It has been a fairly open secret in the Arts industry that all has not been well with 2010 funding, and I suppose government had to wait until the World Cup was done and dusted before getting the investigation going. Don’t want to be party poopers and [Continue]
Written by Tony on 04 August 2010
Cell C today revealed a new corporate identity – new logo, new colours and, seemingly, a new attitude to its customers. In the course of doing so they took some bold steps into what are, for their company at least, uncharted waters. The launch came as the grand finale of a trickle-in campaign that has [Continue]
Written by Tony on 03 April 2010
So Eugene Terreblanche has been murdered. And although it is probably unrelated, the fact that it happened while the country debates the appropriateness of struggle songs like “kill the boer” is going to put the whole debate in stark relief. It is a real life example of what the song’s critics have been saying, and [Continue]
Written by Tony on 03 April 2010
Grahamstown Spur. Chicken burger. Is it just me or is the chicken roughly the same size as the tomato? And, no, it’s not a particularly big tomato. Just saying. [Continue]
Written by Tony on 25 November 2009
It’s not often that I’m moved to gush. Oh, alright, I’ll be honest. I am frequently moved to gush when it comes to music I love. It’s just that too often I couldn’t be arsed to actually do it. This time round I am so blown away by the Parlotones’ new CD I have to [Continue]
Written by Tony on 17 November 2009
If this didn’t betray a deep and disturbing level of homophobia and a major invasion of privacy, it would be funny. Courtesy of the Sunday Pepper – a Ugandan newspaper. [Continue]
Written by Tony on 29 October 2009
This morning I listened to Aden Thomas interviewing Ian Neilson, the Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, on Cape Talk. The interview was about what Eyewitness News is calling the IRT costing “bungle”. The use of the word bungle confuses me. Mixing up your medications and taking the pink pills instead of the yellow ones is [Continue]