http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/nicole-mcinnes/ Nicole is an ex-award-winning advertising creative turned corporate marketer, but that was before she found inner peace as an insane, I mean calm mother of two-boys-under-two. In fact rediscovering her love of writing is really the only thing keeping her from regularly stabbing herself with Cranky the Crane. Since February she has written for publications including The Daily Telegraph, Sydney’s Child and In the Powder Room, in addition to the many enlightening over shares on her blog: MyIdealife. But most days you’ll find her refereeing head-butting competitions and avoiding housework so she can tweet addictively or instagram photos of the various disasters that inevitably occur. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/weve-got-our-heads-buried-in-an-exciting-new-world/ I recently attended a VIP media launch for an Aussie singer. This in itself is news as I have two children under the age of two, so going out is rare. But the real surprise was how much the dancefloor had changed. It wasn’t smaller or lit like Saturday Night Fever (although that would have been cool). It just wasn’t heaving. Normally the music would be blamed for a subdued crowd. But I think the real problem was a new one. You see, it’s particularly hard to dance while watching an artist through your iPhone, while tweeting, Instagramming, uploading snaps to Facebook or writing a blog post. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Nicole McInnes) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/weve-got-our-heads-buried-in-an-exciting-new-world/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/weve-got-our-heads-buried-in-an-exciting-new-world/#item7373 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:45:00 +0000 Nicole McInnes | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/home-is-where-the-hate-is/ The thousands of words on Twitter reflected my own emotions as I watched ABC TV’s The Slap last week. One tweet said: “it’s totally brutal!”, another: “searing, uncomfortable melancholy” and one more: “did anyone else’s heart sink tonight watching The Slap?” Mine certainly did and I was not the only one. It was a bit close to the bone for many, as it shone an unceremonious light on characters’ Aisha and Hector’s 16-year marriage. As I watched Aisha fake anger and hurt at Hector’s admission of his minor infidelity, all the while withholding her own more major dalliance, an image of marriage popped into my head: Marriage is a bonfire stack piling higher and higher with hurts, waiting for a spark to ignite an explosion of desire or destruction. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Nicole McInnes) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/home-is-where-the-hate-is/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/home-is-where-the-hate-is/#item7218 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:40:15 +0000 Nicole McInnes | Author bios | The Punch