Thunder Road

Athletes everywhere have to contend with armchair experts…

Snatched a couple of hours to see Ponyo (click for trailer) with the Little Dragon last week. Beautiful.

Ira Gershwin was the first lyricist to win a Pulitzer prize. He and his brother George were superstars of musical theatre so it must have been quite the coup for author Dubose Heyward when they approached him to turn his novel and stage play, Porgy, into a folk opera.

I went all Nostradamus a while back and prognosticated on what might happen to Australia’s book industry if the ill-conceived Productivity Commission recommendations are endorsed by the Federal Government.