Dear printer,

When I'm trying to print off stuff to send to the agent who WANTS TO SEE PAGES is really, truly, MADLY, DEEPLY not the time to become a precious flower about picking up the paper wtaf?

Up yours truly,
Me

Meanwhile, England's really becoming a team of lookers, huh? (NSFW!) I mean, obviously Alastair Cook has always been a bit of ( Read more... )

We've finally plugged into digital television in preparation for THE ASHES starting tonight. (Other Melbourne peeps: is 7's digital signal always a pile of arse, or is our building just special? Not that we care, because at the moment life is all about the Tour and the Ashes, and they're both on SBS. SUCK IT, HOME OF THE OLYMPICS ( Read more... )

WTF, Ubisoft? Why do you make me pick my region (AU) and then direct me to a page of patches that only work on the US version? *smacks upside the head*

Meanwhile, I went to the ODI (cricket, for the uninitiated) yesterday. It was freezing in the localised-weather-pattern that is the MCG, but when frostbite beckoned and our fielding was boring the ( Read more... )

Did you see that? Did you see that?

*looks at crowd*

OK, you probably didn't and you probably don't care. But seven for forty-two! SEVEN FOR! I watched him get five of them in a single session. Boy's on FIRE. Thing of damn beauty, yo.

Translation: Seven wickets of a possible ten to be got in an innings. They looked like this. (They do eventually ( Read more... )

Germaine Greer doesn't like Australia. This is news? A more obvious statement I'm incapable of thinking of off the top of my head. (These days, I'm not sure Australia likes Greer so much, so I don't see that it really matters, anyway. ETA: Also, I'm increasingly convinced she doesn't like Australia, no italics. Which I guess is her prerogative, and ( Read more... )

The really fun thing about editing a cricket book - even more than the diamond cricket balls and the hilarious wikipedia entries and staring at that Bodyline photo for whole minutes at a time - is that I feel totally justified in having a window open behind my document just so that I can watch my boy do his thingETA: "MEK Hussey lbw b Martin 35 ( ( Read more... )

Yep, it's that time of year again. Considering the Aussies have been playing in India since I was in the States, you're all lucky I haven't been burbling about cricket before now. But I've been busy.

Today, however, I found the cricket spirit for this year, while looking up various cricketing terms for accuracy on wikipedia. ( Blah blah about Mankading, the similarity to base-stealing thereof, and obscure cricket rule glee )

Everyone in Australia is bitching about Harbarjan Singh. No really! Hey, if the guy has Punter on a string, more power to him, but that's no reason to go about being a twat.

But in any case, spending so much time at BaggyGreen has had the usual effect, that being me saving bundles of pictures to my hard-drive and giggling about the man-hugging and ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up with the idea that it would be awesome - awesome! - to create a Harry Potter role-playing game where everyone was playing county cricket. There would be sledging! And padding up! And dressing-room antics! And lots of beer! The county sides would have to become co-ed, because Pansy is obviously the sort of opening bats(wo)man ( Read more... )

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!

I can't fucking BELIEVE we've let them do that. I am livid.

And what the hell was with the Duckworth-Lewis? Every time it rained we got fucked.

So unhappy, Drums.