If there's a more boring scribe in Sunburnia than the Australian's Simple Error then I'm Terry Lane! I wouldn't normally read Simple's snore-a-thons, but as Tim Blair once said, "I read things". So, as I was down the pub for lunch with only the Sandshoe International tennis tourney on the telly I had no option but to troll through the nether regions of the Melbourne dailies.
Get a load of this mogadon....
You've also probably noticed I began this with "Dear Reader." I got this idea off that bloke who does Late Night Live on Radio National, Adam Someone or other. He always talks about his "Listener", who he calls Gladys. This is his way of being modest about what he supposes is a tiny audience. So I copied this idea with "Reader." Hope you Get it.
I get it, but I don't want it! Copy Adam Someone? Balls! I'd rather copy Adam Sandler. I'd get much more sense out of Adam from Thomastown!
The bulk of the article is one of those pathetic riffs popular amongst the faux-luddites that wail on about new technology.
My review? Don't bother. Still, things are looking up....
You've probably noticed the column has shrunk a bit over the past few weeks.
The Incredible Shrinking Man disappeared completely. There's hope for us yet.
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