Ancient apercus from October 2004

Another Homo for the history books

Ethan Switch - Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 18:17:01

Found dead as a meatless skull with skeleton fragments from six others, a young female is discovered in the Liang Bua limestone caves of Flores Island on the eastern tip of Java, Indonesia. Palaeoanthropological cups of 50 years—made from delicate china adorned with fine artwork—are thrown in the air as coffee is spat out, eyes bulge and jaws drop in massive unison.

Shattering blows to the conventional wisdom of the Homo sapiens having rule and reign of the world in isolation, a new species of Homo—one dubbed Homo floresiensis—is the discovery.

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Scud drops Delta, picks up Hilton, looks for puppet strings

Ethan Switch - Monday, October 25, 2004 - 19:46:11

Symbiotic despair lingered in the air of the days diving into the weekend of past. The tennis playing entity consisting of Lleyton Hewitt and Kim Clijsters were no longer. Their relationship now on separate sides of the court and orchestrations set in motion to one day see both names sit atop the rankings simultaneously. Weeks or so leading up to their final bonding as a sole unit the pair split with details casting doubt on the mark that they were more than the one being and stand-alones shimmering reflections merely as a side-effect of too many media adoptions into the bossum.

Then, in a sure sign of one-upmanship over his fellow player and countryman, Mark Philippoussis dumps cancer squeezing singer/songwriter Delta Goodrem for the model with the plumber's crack, Paris Hilton. With the split between Philippoussis and Goodrem came so close on the heels of Hewitt and Clijsters leans are made to stretch connections and all sorts of out turns for celebrity tennis entangled couples.

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Brandon Routh is the new unknown Christopher Reeve

Ethan Switch - Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 14:00:06

Flooding a tsunami of glamour shots and Halloween costumes, the rumour mills have latched onto the prospect that relative unknown Brandon James Routh has been cast into the freshly emptied shoes of Superman. Official word from the gullets of Warner Bros. themselves is yet to come though an announcement is expected later in the week.

Capitalising on the montage-fest surrounding Reeve's cardiac arrest into failure, the makers and shakers of the highly anticipated return of Clark Kent/Superman to the silver screen, tentatively entitled Superman Returns. have pounced around the grave of the solid state of Christopher Reeve who still awaits internment and even the burial plot to vacate itself of the soil, worms and roots currently holding residence.

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Sometimes I Spin Around for Days

Belvedere Jehosophat - Sunday, October 17, 2004 - 02:18:00

When robbed of all metaphysical and spiritual overtones a life often becomes a measure of material accretion.

What does one do, however, when the limitation of consciousness betrays the hunger? Where does one go when the desire to soak up the world has far surpassed the ability of the conscious mind to assimilate and digest what the world has to offer?

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Christopher Reeve dies, makes room for Superman

Ethan Switch - Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 09:59:24

Superman's death at the hands of Doomsday in the booming slut times of the early nineties crazed into the stratosphere of wrongness stemming from the speculator market to affect the comicbook industry on a whole. Events with no meaning and a shallow marketing campaign tugged at the non-commitant heart strings of one-time and occasional readers and all-time gold dusters. Shortly following that crash cow, the distaste flavouring the hobby turned off many millions of copies leaving a hole in the bubble. Left to rubble, the industry was obliterated and climbed through the ruck and muck that followed to a state of respectability it is in today.

Christopher Reeves' very recent death—through cardiac arrest, comatosing and flatlining stemming from complications of a paralysed life—may spark moves in the opposite direction for all taking lessons.

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Howard wins another term, terrorists disappoint crowds once again

Ethan Switch - Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 12:00:43

Drunken masses, tree felling Tasmanians and well greened Australians thumbed their brown noses to Mark Latham and Labor by returning John Howard to government for another indeterminate stay wielding his brand of trust and disclosure for an historic fourth term.

Watching on from the sidelines were coroners and criminal investigators and hijack nuts who had already conceded the Coalition return a few days out from polling day. Their insight into the result was clouded by references to earlier elections held in Indonesia and Spain. Taking lessons taught by the terrorists, the pundits knew full well the stay of the Howard eyebrow juggernaut when in the lead up, no bomb blasts or massacres occurred on Australian soil.

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Wow and Flutter

Belvedere Jehosophat - Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - 08:13:36

sciamachy: an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy

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Operation Slowdown looking to pick up some extra bodies

Ethan Switch - Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - 18:39:01

Following the great numbers presented on the road toll of Operation Slowdown, NSW police will continue their road safety campaigns through to the rest of the school holidays. Clocking in one minute before the start of the returning work week, the final numbers for Operation Slowdown 2004 rankled with five deaths, an increase on the paltry numbers of 2003 which bore witness to only two bodies fatally twisted around crumbled and smashed chassis.

In the first 24 hours two people managed to run a foul of collisions, one, an old lady who slammed head on with a Pantec truck and a motorcyclist who ended up hugging a tree at too high a velocity at Urbenville. Closing out with fifth in the tally was a motorcyclist who lost a duel with a Toyota Landcruiser late into the running of the Operation. Taking place near Ballina was a match between a sedan and a truck. The just-shy-of-50-year-old driver of the sedan won’t be having another birthday after losing that match. In Oakville another tree helped with the numbers as it claimed a life to take the tally to four on the third. Closing out with fifth in the tally was a motorcyclist who lost a duel with a Toyota Landcruiser late into the running of the Operation.

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