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Closed Indefinitely
Published on 2007-01-02 18:06:00
Regular readers may have noticed a distinct lack of new content on this blog. For the last seven months work, and various small social manoeuvres, (carried out in what a diehard techie friend of Little Mr Square Eyes describes as ‘meatspace’) have interfered with posting here.These work commitments meant LMSE has spent large chunks of time away from Tasmania – a situation unconducive to writing regularly about local telly and all things TAS. As a result, the Little Mister Square Eyes blog
From his lips to God's ear
Published on 2006-09-04 22:41:00
"I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it." Steve Irwin
First Hinde now Mr Gormsby?
Published on 2006-07-06 01:11:00
Following the death of John Hinde, Crikey carried an item flagging the somewhat pungent obituary of New Zealand newspaper proprietor Ray Smith.It opens with:Ray Smith, the newspaper owner who died in Rotorua on Sunday aged 85, was an austere man, who went through life with a perpetual scowl...and then becomes really frank. Worth a read, if only as a studied exercise in how to speak ill (and therefore honestly) of the dead -- could Smith have been the real life Mr Gormsby? You also wonder what P