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Stranger Thingies : From Felafel to Now.

John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer.The pieces contained...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Birmingham, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of New South Wales Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • About the Author
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Things Themselves
  • If magazines profiled men like women
  • Batten down the hashtags
  • Precious freedom thingies
  • Why I miss the â#x80;#x99;90s
  • Hip hop is old-people music now
  • How Big Waterbed sprung a leak
  • Hotel beds are the best beds
  • Fox in socks and sandals
  • Johnny Depp robbed my car
  • An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club
  • An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club
  • An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club
  • The upside of the end of the worldFerris Buellerâ#x80;#x99;s day of the undead
  • Stuffing Your Piehole
  • Apocalypse pudding
  • I take it back, soccer
  • Save my bacon
  • Potato cake terrorist
  • Oh Christmas ham, how did it come to this?
  • Pig night out
  • Grand theft mango
  • Work it, Bitch
  • The meeting
  • Procrastination masterclass
  • I am from the Microsoft Security
  • There will be typos
  • Sports and Leisure
  • Licence to drink
  • Eating his way to the top
  • The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is a naval battle in the never-ending class war
  • The Biggest Loser recap: appetite for reductionYoga for the modern bro
  • Leisure Suit Larry and the joystick of destiny
  • Knocked off your perch
  • There is a level 200 squirtle at the end of this think piece
  • Domestic Affairs
  • He died with a felafel in his hand
  • The magpie war
  • I have frozen my last toad
  • Problem solver needed. Moral flexibility a must
  • Dog beach
  • We would become Volvo drivers
  • â#x80;#x98;This carâ#x80;#x99;s from the future!â#x80;#x99;
  • Modern Man
  • Manspreading
  • Without pants
  • Cold snap
  • Bachelor pad
  • The Tasmanian Babes fiascoManflu
  • Dad bod
  • Modern dad
  • Inside the Sausage of Politics
  • Flopping it out
  • Ho, fellow conservative Australians!
  • Statement by the League of Australians for a Muntstitutional Conarchy on the occasion of the Prime Ministerâ#x80;#x99;s treasonous plot to raise the Natives above their lowly station
  • From the office of the Prime Minister
  • The Ballad of Admiral Morrison
  • From Scott Morrison: Minister for Stopping Immigration
  • Spy vs spy
  • Minutes of an intelligence briefing
  • The new reality
  • Let Turnbull be Turnbull
  • There is no such thing as 22 avocado toastExciting marketing opportunity
  • I read Senator Malcolm Robertsâ#x80;#x99;s scorching indictment of the CSIROâ#x80;#x99;s criminal conspiracy to ruin us all so you wouldnâ#x80;#x99;t have to
  • Election wrap
  • I can haz kompromat?
  • Why I voted for Cthulhu
  • The triumph of neo-stupidity