Am in sunny (sic) Wellington airport right now. I can report that the cult of Ramsay is alive and well in this neck of the woods. The Sunday paper (I refer to it in the singular, I think this country has only one) ran the same 15 minute Ramsay interview we got in it’s sister paper The Age recently. Good to see recycling is alive and well.

In fact it is really only online media that floats my boat these days. And I am a big consumer of all kinds of media. When I’m not paying out on vacuous morons in the Herald Sun (good morning Bob Hart) you will find me whingeing about the precious leftists in the Age who seem to run the show. I don’t need North Fitzroy freaks telling me not to drink bottled water or insist on Fairtrade coffee.

Blogs are excellent because of the sheer freedom of it all. It is where I find my entertainment and my information these days and actually enjoy it. Sometimes there is some rubbish but there are plenty of gems out there. And on top of all that it is free!

Dead tree media is now run by a mix of self-important elites and moronic marketing drones. And unlike the newspapers I don’t think I have to worry about my labrador shredding my laptop before I get up to read the news.

Keep punching, as they used to say.

Grocer, just got Ken to deal with down here.

Ken, fair enough but I’m not sure where Grasshopper got the “gratuitous congratulations” from. I was just making the point that the Hun had taken a step forward in its food section. True, Stephen is a mate but that doesn’t mean I agree with him. I’ve met Paddy once and Kate twice at events.
I’ve only ever seen inside the Hun office once a few weeks ago. I’m a full time freelance journalist and I write what I’m asked to write to a format which is generally for a mass market newspaper or magazine for money.
This blog is fun and a sort of hobby and as I’ve said before will probably just about make enough money this year to make up for the two features I won’t be writing for The Bulletin because it closed. Actually, I feel I’ve been distracted by deadwood and some new media recently and need to make more effort to entertain here. Keep coming and I’ll try not to mention my employers again.

And what would people really expect Ed to do on his blog other than rip into someone who dared to criticise his fellow Hun employees, Paddy, Gordo, Downes and McGhie. It would be a bit uncomfortable upon his next trip into the Hun office if he hadn’t shown a bit of solidarity with his stablemates and tried to squash the grasshopper.

The grasshopper also gave Ed a belting over the content of his own newspaper column. And perhaps he is right. I keep coming back to Ed’s blog because it is a good read with plenty of new and interesting content. But his Hun column is boring. Sorry Ed.

Too funny that something as silly as discussing a newspaper format has somebody riled, but if they think that this blog is about self-indulgent back slapping they just don’t get it. I’ve noticed Gobsta has a similar “friend”.

I think Gordon appeals across the range – from michelin star diners to his frank manner and manly ways to housewives (remember many women probably hear this language at home too!).

Like jack i don’t use the term f-die, i find it cringe-worthy and most people that say they are, are in my humble opinion, NOT.

enough said