Gabfest - Tasmanian Times

Another one gone

After a bit of a lull during which some people might have thought enough money had already been made from it flogging...

I’VE been away; hence the absence of gabfest from this website for a few months. But it’s OK, I’ve been on the...

I WAS listening to a new album by a rapper called Common the other day. He’s heavily into black consciousness, in the...

IT’S been more than a month since I wrote my last “weekly” column for this website. First I had ‘flu then, despite...

AS Linda Smith in The Mercury observed last month, once you see Paul Lennon setting up a photo opportunity with a dog,...

ECONOMIST George Taylor once observed that when hemlines went up, the economy was likely to follow in hot pursuit. But what are...

WHEN I was growing up in Tasmania, there was little conspicuous wealth. (The biggest shock of a first trip to Sydney was...

GIMME that old-time religion, that old-time religion … every second politician seems to be singing that song these days. Among them, chalk...

STARING aimlessly at the books littering my desk the other night, I noticed the words on the spine of a local travel...

AS the cat said to the canary, just because I’m fluffy doesn’t mean I’m not serious. One of the correspondents to this...