I noticed, in a paper on Affect, Culture and Morality this proposition:
“A man goes to the supermarket once a week and buys a dead chicken. But before cooking the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he cooks it and eats it. Is that wrong?”
It was used in research to do with morality….
Naturally I [...]
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Chickengate reconsidered….
Posted in AFL, tagged AFL, chickengate, North Melbourne Kangaroos on May 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Chickengate as reviewed on At The Movies.
Posted in AFL, tagged At the Movies David Stratton, chickengate, David Edwards, Margaret Pomeranz on April 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When asked today if I was barracking for North Melbourne or Essendon I thought I’d better look into Chickengate first. For those that don’t know what that is, here is a link to the video and a typical analysis of it. In short two members of the NM team produced a video typically interpreted as [...]
Contrary Clarissa
Posted in AFL, Clarissa, tagged AFL, big feet, Brunswick Music Festival, Clarissa, Fevola, Greg Champion, sock knitting on April 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One thing strikes me about Clarissa at the moment. I have no idea where her head’s at (so to speak). She’s just all over the place. One moment it’s fighting for Somalia, the next moment it’s crocheted bicycle covers. I’d say it was hormones if…you know….
We went to the Brunswick music festival the other week [...]
A retrospective slide-show. The Pash Papers launch Adelaide 1999
Posted in AFL, sport, tagged AFL, Australian Rules Football, Magarey Medallist, Pioneer Books, The Pash Papers on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pash was a Magarey Medallist in Adelaide in the late 1930s. In the 1950s life Murdoch gave him space in The News, then Adelaide’s afternoon tabloid, to talk about football. This was space for whatever took his fancy, not for the obligatory match reports. It was space in which to philosophise about the game of [...]
Clarissa and I go to the football
Posted in AFL, Clarissa, sport, tagged AFL, astronauts, black holes, Collingwood, Goddard, Nick Delsanto, Pies, St Kilda on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Of course we went to the game last weekend – the Saints versus the Pies, that is. I had my bag checked by security. He didn’t look far and then waved me on with ‘Ah, Sudoku. Good girl’. I didn’t know whether to be flattered or nervous. Is it really true? That terrorists don’t do [...]
