All posts tagged 2007
Christmas reading
Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 4 December 2007, p. 13. It is the season of publishers’ catalogues, booksellers promotions, book launches and serendipitous strolls around the bookshops of Geelong and Melbourne trying to turn up something for presents, something for reading and …
Hanging Ben out to dry, ignoring Dick
Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 21 November 2007, p. 19. When sports officials want to bring someone to heel they often resort to an omnibus charge of bringing the game into
Origins of footy again and a cautionary tale of Tutsi high jumping
Published as 'Footy fiction', Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 16 October 2007, p. 15. by Roy Hay The recent rediscovery of an etching at the Museum of Victoria which appears to show
Football and religion
Published as 'Praise them' Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 10 October 2007, p. 23. The notion of football as a secular religion is an old one. Marx wrote about religion as
It’s Wigan not Paris
My wife turned down a trip to Paris this week. We have been married so long, she knows which questions to ask and when I asked if she
Marnie Haig-Muir: Your review of the latest Rankin is right on the money, Roy. This book...