1969 – The moon landing was either real or NASA lied to us (but is that really old news?) 1994 – Kurt Cobain passed away or escaped to an island with Biggie, Elvis, and Tupac 2015 – Lorde foreshadows COVID-19 with secret onion ring account 2018...
Charles Bukowski is my favourite author; he was also an alcoholic. He was a lot of other things too; an atheist, a pacifist, an addict and someone who spent a long time homeless, living out of food scrap bins. Tribulation makes great writers unless you’re a born genius. In...
Recycler Being the designated recycler at a party is a rite of passage. Glass and aluminium have their place in society, the bin. The recycler toil is difficult, never simple, and often met with an ‘Oh crap that is not grade 7 plastic!’ Open aluminium cans leave nasty cuts...
I could take this from a number of angles. Theology is interesting but to the non-religious, it may be the wrong way to approach and evangelise. I could go all calvinistic. Give you some predestination banter stating there is no such thing as free will and everything we choose...
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. As a self-titled critic, I risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and themselves to my judgement. I thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and read. That is where...
Sometimes student media can be at the forefront of seeking out a story. They can be as dogged or determined as any journalist and immediately know where a story is. Other times they get lazy and know that they can just hit up one of their writers to give...
Another day another week and I’m talking about a range of stuff in the name of health and wellbeing. Originally I wanted to call this issue ‘Nexus Becomes Flexus’ but I soon realised the content didn’t match anything predominantly ‘flexus’. There hardly is a mention of pulsating biceps so...
Rewind By Hospice It seems as though Frankton, a once railway town in 1910, has passed down its essence of a community like a (good) generational curse. Within the past, local businesses came and then closed. Now, something special rears itself up, something promising, and it offers a...
It is hard to gauge where the story of Wenyue Ruan fits among the pantheon of Covid stories. We tend to allow ourselves to get lost so much in the large scale tragedies, the life and death of it all and the heartbreaking stuff we hear about sons not...
One of my latest defeats is having the last two weeks issues titled similarly. I promise the content in this one is different. Last week’s issue was an attempt to highlight housing, flatting, and terrible DIY’s I hope you never actually use. This week I wanted to test the...
