Tag: the greatest blogger in the world
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I am writing Pigeon letters
It’s been a while since I wrote a letter that wasn’t an attempt to get out of a parking fine. It’s been even longer since I wrote correspondence by hand that wasn’t a postcard. And for the remainder of 2010 I’ll be writing and receiving letters that have nothing to do with 15-minute parking zones […]
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Deleted Scene from The Greatest Blogger in the World
Deleted Scenes. They’re bonus material used to pad out the special features of a DVD. We’re always very interested to watch them and they almost always let us down. ‘Oh, I see why they didn’t use that,’ we say. ‘But it’s nice the producers put it on the DVD for us.’ Keeping this in mind […]
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My book reading at the Wheeler Centre
I had the great honour of being the second person EVA to speak at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in February this year. And whilst the highly-literate staff at the centre were all very lovely to me on the night, who knows how they’d treat me now if they saw me using […]
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Reading The Greatest Blogger in the World
This is my attempt at doing a video reading of my book (and two others). Make sure you hang out to see the final book I read from. It’s one of my favourite childhood books. Oh and subscribe to my YouTube channel while you’re at it!
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Charlie and Boots! I’m suing.
I don’t want to get on my high horse – for horses are hard enough to ride without being metaphorical as well – but there’s a new Australian film out called Charlie and Boots that stars Shane Jacobson and Paul Hogan and I was never even consulted! For those who don’t know, two of the […]
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The Greatest Competition in the World
If you haven’t seen it over at www.thegreatestbloggerintheworld.com there is currently a Greatest Blogger in the World competition going to write a small blog post and go into the running to win one of two Apple MacBooks. Pretty cool, huh? To enter all you have to do is write a blog post that contains these […]
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The Greatest Blogger book launch
The Greatest Blogger in the World was officially launched last week at Readings Carlton in Melbourne by author/broadcaster Tony Wilson. It was a lovely evening. Tony said nice things about the book, lots of people came to listen to him, most importantly, I got to wear a suit jacket. And it wasn’t even a wedding. […]
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It’s Real
It’s a pretty weird feeling receiving your own book in the mail.