Month: December 2009

Breaking News: Be afraid, be very afraid

I’m having a quick coffee break to, well, have a non-caffeinated beverage. Since I stopped drinking coffee nearly five years ago. Anyway, zipped along to Starbucks with my workmate Stretch to get my usual grande, extra hot, trim chai but…

Brittany Murphy dead

News reports say actress/singer Brittany Murphy has died of a cardiac arrest. She was just 32. Her films included 8 Mile and Clueless. ON THE WEB Brittany Murphy dies

Santa: online and out of control

Summer Santa

Are you a Twit? Or whatever it is those of us who use Twitter should be called (Twitchy perhaps, or Twats?) Anyway, brace yourselves kiddies. Santa is online and, well, loaded, via a Twitter account named loadedsanta (no surprise there,…

I’m dreaming of a Clooney Christmas

Santa

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I can’t believe Christmas has snuck up on me again, waving its tinselly bits at me mockingly as I wonder where the past 12 months have Have you written your…