Lanai Vasek
Lanai has always been the annoying kid in class who asked too many questions.
Born and bred on Sydney’s northern beaches she has an irrational fear of trains and British backpackers.
She likes Malcolm Turnbull’s ute, beating the competition and Christian Louboutin.
Lanai is the Business Owner editor at news.com.au.
She once had a cat named Salmon.
Articles by Lanai Vasek
Facebook is not the place to find out your child is dead
I still remember exactly where I was when I found out both my parents had passed away. I remember every…... Read more
I was one of the lucky ones
I’m an orphan. My mum committed suicide when I was seven and my dad had a heart-attack when I was…... Read more
Public enemies. We’re creating them
Hollywood Director Michael Mann probably never dreamed he would grow up and inspire movie-goers around the world to knock over…... Read more
My name is Lanai and I’m a Twitterholic
If our linguistically challenged forefathers had the option to Tweet their grunts and moans, I’m almost certainly positive they would.…... Read more
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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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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
