Connor O'Brien
Connor is an Adelaide-based writer, student, and one of the incoming editors of On Dit, Australia’s third longest-running student magazine. He currently writes a weekly column for the Sunday Mail, contributes to a number of quality street press publications, and has established permanent residence at [url=http://www.connortomas.com]http://www.connortomas.com[/url].
He tends to clench his fists in anger when people start ragging on Adelaide, but still thinks Melbourne has the better drivers.
Articles by Connor O'Brien
To a degree, it’s the end of university conversation
On the table, a hundred cups and saucers (arranged neatly, ten by ten). The university has pegged its hopes on…... Read more
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Weird: Why clocks in Broome gained time http://t.co/6zZblPfq (video, reporter asks us to spare a thought for cavemen, who had no clocks)
@TommyTudehope Re petrol sniffing, have you read Russell Skelton's "King Brown Country''? It won last 2011 Walkley non-fiction book award.,
When a dog bites a man, that is not news. When a rescued dog bites a TV anchor on air... http://t.co/GsJT9sRj
RT @RajWakeling: we crucify Lana Del Rey for manufacturing her identity and using autotune, and we worship lady gaga for the same? get some perspective
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The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured…
Cash mobs aren’t so flash
For a moment in the mid-naughties, they were the coolest of all cool social media-fuelled meme-thingos.…
If we wanted reality, we’d turn off the television
“Some day, far into the future, this here machine will become a powerful medium with the potential…
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choice ringside rantings
From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
