You can shine like Silver all you want but you're just Aluminum

This recent Diesel Sweeties is perhaps the greatest comic I have ever read. I suspect it reveals a greater truth about the cosmos; after all, Johnny Depp has been voted the sexiest man alive, and the more talented contestant won Australian Idol. One could almost forget that most human beings are idiots.

Here are the the details for my next production:

Blue Chair Theatreworks presents
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare

"Wit, an't be thy will, put me in good fooling..."

10-13 December 2003, 8pm and 2pm matinee on Sat. 13
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall Arts, 54 Victoria St. Carlton South
$16, $12 Concession & Union members, $7 Preview (Dec 10)
Book on 9815 2292

Everything to Everyone (the new Barenaked Ladies album) grows on me like an ever-thicker sugar frosting. Further highlights include Maybe Katie, Shopping Take It Outside and Aluminum. This, of course, makes most of the album the highlight, which is as it should be.

Fans of weird with time and around $50 to spare may be interested in Marostica, a living chess game played in Italy for over 400 years and - for the first time ever - in Melbourne tomorrow. If I make it I'll let you know what the fuck goes on.

More new Doctor Who as Scream of the Shalka reaches episode two. More of the fab new Doctor, the monsters knock it up a notch, the military show knowledge of the Doctor, and Derek Jacobi's (yes, I said Derek Jacobi) Master arrives on the scene in somewhat mysterious circumstances. One might think Jamie Oliver was involved, so well has the plot been left to thicken. Bring on part three...

And remember: happiness is to be encouraged wherever it breeds and wherever it dwells. Yes, I'm looking at you.

Any other guy would want to take it outside but I'd
Never even try - who wants to get their lights knocked out?
Any other guy would want to stir it up some but I'd
Rather say goodbye...