Category: Old Friends
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Off Their Faces
SOCIAL MEDIA | Bans Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021 An old friend* has been banned from Facebook. It’s not a temporary ban, of the sort the platform’s annoying algorithms and equally irritating geeks might mete out to people who fail to genuflect to the Great Cursor, or who post something Zuckerberg geeks deem disrespectful, like saying…
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Peak Effort
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali | Saturday, Apr. 28, 2018 DIAN Cahyadi, with whom we had the pleasure of working in Lombok more than decade ago, on a little and now extinct monthly newspaper called the Lombok Times, has achieved a new personal best for 2018. Actually, it’s…
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The Elegant Stomping Dance
SEAN DORNEY Veteran ABC journalist, former Kumuls captain, and all-round good bloke “Roast” Dinner, Brisbane, Feb. 24, 2018. I wrote these words for the occasion and hope someone got a giggle out of them. By all accounts, it was a rollicking night. Sean and Pauline, early arrivals (as is only proper for the guests of…
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