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What's All This Racquet?
2005-12-02 02:05:00
For those of you who don’t know, I am a tennis nut. Seriously! It even says so on the coffee mug my grandmother gave me for Christmas last year. *insert eyeroll* Naturally it was filled with them. Hilarious.I play in two weekly tennis competitions throughout the year and tomorrow I play a semi-final in my Saturday Afternoon Mixed (Nuts) Competition. After having so eloquently stumbled into the last semi-final spot (by half a point), out team will be taking on the minor premiers for a spot in the final. We don’t expect to win but maybe that’s a good thing. It’s bound to be another one of our trademark contests. And by that I mean the match will take on more than just an on-court tussle.Being passionate (read: intimidating) players it’s not hard to lose sight of the fact that it really is just a social afternoon (complete with cucumber sandwiches) with the ladies. Even if the ‘ladies’ would rather us take our machismo elsewhere. There are 6 of us in our team (3 women and...
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Maybe Tonight... Or Not!
2005-11-23 00:44:00
Pfft. Kate De-however-you-spell-her-surname. Local-and-earthy? Since when has that been the pre-requisite for Idol? Casey Donovan has set some sort of precedent. Once again, the Australian public has failed to deliver the title to the best contestant. And Emily Williams was that. Vocally, she was streets ahead of Miss DeAraugo and performance wise Kate is light years behind. Boring. At one stage I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to wear more eye make-up than Kate… until Lee.Three years ago when Guy Sebastian was deservedly crowned the inaugural Australian Idol I was proud to have been part of a nation that rewarded talent (not just hard work) but it seems all that has gone out the window now. ‘Emotive’ and ‘exotic’ personalities are being overthrown by insipid almost-rans. Marcia Hines must be pulling her hair (read: wigs) out… what does a black woman have to do to win this fucking contest! Paulini, Anne, Emily. Any one of them could rightfully stake claim to t...
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