A few random pieces for your Easter pleasure.
- I have opened a new account at Westpac. My occupation is listed by the bank as SCREENWRITER/AUTHOR/PLAYWRIGHT/POET/NOVELIST.
I love this.
I will soon be adding the terms 'love rat', 'party girl' and 'raconteur'.
- Wtf happened with Danny Katz and the Age? 'Danny Katz has discontinued his regular column'?? WHY? WHAT DID HE DO WRONG THAT JIM SCHEMBRI DID RIGHT?
This is a fucking travesty. If anyone knows the sex scandal-type dirt, give me the scoop.
- Wednesday night I ate at Ocha. Last night I ate at the Botanical. Deal.
Best dishes were miso eggplant and duck mince 'sandwich', and chocolate clafoutis with blood plum, armagnac ice-cream and bitter melted chocolate pouring sauce respectively.
As Anthony Bourdain says, 'Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.'
- My mum was walking down Bourke street wearing her Pandagate t-shirt (do you not love her?) when she saw a girl walking towards her wearing the exact same shirt. I have been waiting for this moment to happen ever since Darp first sent mine over. You know when you're just dying for someone to do a double-take and say - after a sharp inhalation of breath - 'Pandagate? Surely...surely you weren't involved in some way...' and when you've finished looking modest and scuffing your boots in the dirt and explaining they can clap a matey arm around your shoulder and buy you a gin and tonic.
929 days til the next election.
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Westpac ,isn't that the company that is a large investor in Gunns,Tasmania?
See .......whatroolyhappened ,wherethey are trying to flush the slap writ bastards out.
Anyway have a christ of a good time!
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Yeah, I was wondering what happened to Danny. They did say something along the lines of "Danny Katz will return, keep buying The Age, please".
What did your mother say to the other pandagate tshirt wearer, or what did they say to her?
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Take 3.
You've written plays and poems? Or did you just make that bit up for a more satisfactory metre?
I can think of better candidates for shafting than Danny Katz, Schembri among them. There would be any number of people willing to take a claw hammer to Paul McDermott's smarmy conk. Well, maybe just me.
Get used to it Mr Lefty! A vigorous ,indepedent paper has gone to the tubes.
Fairfax like Telsra are being fattened up for a quick sale for more advantage of the right.
Give up on "The Age".
It's been a dud for ages. Last editor pathetic and the new one the scottish liquidator.
Good opportunity to buy shares for those who have lost their scruples and soul. Gunns' also recommended.
Rumour has it that you still owe Darp money for the shirts....
Still, even if you didn't pay for them, it's good to know that your mum's living it up in hers.
Although I've worn my shirt to bars and trendy clubs in Melbourne, I've yet to have anyone (other than friends) mention it. :-(
Danny Katz also writes the 'Modern Guru' column in the SMH Good Weekend.
Yo bros. Here's the scoop about Katz from Crikey.
Misha Ketchell writes:
In a move that's sure to upset countless readers, Age editor Andrew Jaspan has sacked long-running columnist Danny Katz. Katz, who has had a weekly column with The Age for nine years and also writes the Modern Guru column in Good Weekend, told Crikey this morning he's "shocked and bewildered" by the decision.
"I've just been given my marching orders and that's all I know," he said. "I'm right in the middle of it and just trying to get more information. It's half amazing.''
Katz had built a strong following for his whimsical brand of humour, with dozens of readers writing to the paper every week to praise his off-beam observations and a quirky writing style that included FREQUENT USE OF CAPS TO EMPHASISE A POINT. Several senior Age editors believe the decision will hurt the paper and are lobbying hard to have him reinstated.
According to sources at the paper, Katz was dumped over this sentence in Crikey's "What The Paper's Say" section a couple of weeks ago:
"Meanwhile over at The Age, a column by Danny Katz’s runs under the intro: 'It’s easy lounging around all day writing nonsense for newspapers'."
Apparently Jaspan "just flipped," says one source at the paper. "He just saw that and he was livid." Jaspan recently told an interviewer on ABC Radio National that he doesn't read Crikey because it would only make him upset. But he also recently became so incensed by the Crikey coverage he doesn't read that he read the riot act to a group of stunned senior editors and threatened to "frog march" out of Spencer Street anyone caught talking to Crikey.
There is some hope for Katz. Sharon Gray, author of a popular "Personal Space" column, was also a victim of the Jaspan axe – until the paper was ininduated by letters and phone calls protesting the decision, which caused Jaspan to reinstate the Gray column.
Jaspan, meanwhile, has been busy courting replacements. Earlier this year Crikey's Stephen Mayne was asked to write a column in The Age's proposed new media section, but all seems to have gone quiet in recent weeks. Could that have something to do with Crikey's recent coverage? Jaspan also approached ABC radio presenter Jon Faine to write a media column, but the presenter turned him down, a snub that places him in the company of Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt and Cameron Stewart, Associate Editor of The Australian, both of whom have also rejected substantial offers from the out-of-town editor.
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