Newsboys
"Here Ye! Here Ye! Thingo who works at the cafe on Tuesdays has put on five kilos! Dude says the ticket machine wasn't working at East Richmond Station. Gets fined anyway! Barista pretends to make a skinny decaf latte but uses full fat milk then laughs at lady behind her back!"
This is the real news of our city.
'My Colombian Death'
Lets get one thing straight. Matt Thompson has big cojones. Not because he travelled solo to Colombia and did everything the guidebook says you shouldn't and made it back. But because he left everything he knew and a few things he probably shouldn't have behind. Wife, newborn child, secure employment and the cosy comfort of Australian society are no match for Thompson's insatiable appetite to be thrown in with the sharks.
The Walking Dead
Here's something that annoys me about interesting stuff: as soon as it gets juicy, it's all over. This truth I apply across the board to relationships, independent publishing, acne, everything. But especially to zombie movies. So many questions are still left unanswered in this, the greatest of genres.
Tales From Outer Suburbia
If the word 'awesomest' was an illustration (or even a word) then it would be illustrated by Shaun Tan. Tan is the king of Australian book illustration and creator of last year's award-winning comic book The Arrival.
Typically Tan's stories are allegories about the human condition, his skill as an artist and writer is to take everyday themes and create an extraordinary and hallucinatory experience.
Blogger Beware: the Goosebumps Blog
Between 1992 and 1997 R.L Stine made publishing history. His horror novels for children were listed as the fifteenth most challenged books of 1990-1999. But just like the blob who ate everyone, was he sorry about freaking out kids everywhere? Hell no. And thank the thing under the sink for that.
ThreeThousand print issue
Why would Melbourne's happiest publishing accident (aka ThreeThousand) do a print version? Is it not like denying our digital birthplace? Is it not like Is Not? Well let us skilfully avoid answering all those questions by saying this:
The information that we love and publish is mainly relevant to being out and about.
Dear Diary by Lesley Arfin
It's probably true to say there aren't many books that could be spun out from a Vice column. True, some of the don'ts are quite evocative (ref: ‘It's like it's 1929 and she's the Prime Minister of hand jobs' and ‘But Humpty, what if nobody turns up to our party'). But these are few and rich in their brevity.
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