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‘Sometimes… you cannot win. But that has nothing to do with losing.”
“Where there’s discomfort there’s fear… in these very tough positions, you’re in a little piece of hell. And through this daily suffering you learn to survive in these situations. You have to find...
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Hagiography
“What a night. What can I say? Badr Hari is an animal. I was just too banged up to keep going. To my loving wife Silvia, my now-two little girls; you keep me strong. “To my friends who have always...
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Fighting Words
First published in Island Magazine, Issue 136. There are two things I am driven to do: write and fight. My mother taught me to read. One of my first memories is watching her reading in bed without...
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Tear Jerker: Mardi Gras Closing Night, 2014
Speechless. Just speechless. And yes, I did fucking cry. Alright?
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‘Blood is Proof of Life’
Your humble narrator was fortunate enough to be quoted in The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald today on the subject of cage fighting in Victoria....
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‘Are You A Satanist?’
1. The last twelve to eighteen months have taught me that if you put something on the internet, everybody will see it. People rarely comment on-line, but I seem to get all kinds of bizarre responses...
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‘Are You a Satanist?’
2. I feel responsible. I feel that I must do something like Flanagan, or Tolstoy. Anything less is a waste of everyone’s time – both yours, and mine. If I think about it too much, there’s not even...
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000...
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Malheureusement, je suis aussi Charlie Hebdo
I really don’t want to do this, but you gotta put your money where your mouth is…
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Goodlife Rapes the Fitness Industry
1. ‘He who has suffered you to impose on him, knows you.’ – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell It is time to dump the bucket. I worked in a couple of Goodlife gyms – and frequented another...
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First Blood: Goodlife Backs Down
“The cut worm forgives the plow.” – William Blake, Proverbs of Hell. I received an email today from Lance Williams, so-called ‘Head of Fitness’ at Goodlife gyms, Australia-wide. I met Williams when...
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How to Get Out of your Personal Trainer’s Agreement with Goodlife
“The fox condemns the trap, not himself.” – William Blake, Proverbs of Hell. It’s been remarkably busy down here in the offices of Theme Park at Its Darkest the past few weeks, even though the entire...
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2015 in review
25000 readers in 2015! Thanks, folks! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700...
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2015 in review
25000 readers in 2015! Thanks, folks! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700...
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An Open Letter to Hannah Gadsby
I just wanted to write to tell you how much I enjoyed your show, ‘Nanette.’ You don’t see a lot of genuinely incendiary stuff anymore. Incendiary and vital. Your show is full of emotional...
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Meditation Killed My Motivation
Tim Ferriss once said that he had initially avoided meditation for fear it would bliss him out and diminish his drive. In my case, I fear that it’s true. Marcus Aurelius, and I’m pretty sure Osho...
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