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'Tis of little solace to an ageing witness of the forum wars just last past. For little good will prevail until the return of the anointed, the promised one, the messiah - Nick JD.

R.I.P.

^ He was actually here almost exactly 54 years ago. Came out to Sale in Victoria to seal up a potentially explosive gas blow out on the MARLIN platform in Bass Strait near Lakes Entrance. Had a beer first, but... (from the Canberra Times, Thu 5 Dec 1968, p.1.) About the same time Hollywood...

The time has come. The stars have aligned. Now destiny awaits. Walk softly, bow your head, and give thanks, for the Year of the Magpie is upon us. Floreat pica Go Pies!

Just about out of 2022 and I’m “running on, running blind” on a hot new year’s arvo, binge listening some old Jackson Browne favorites. Great music and lyrics. The title track to the Running on Empty album, set to a montage of still pictures taken during his 1977 tour. Looking out at the road...

Thanks Frankarooney, but I get this error message saying that the clip is not available in Australia (maybe you are using a VPN to get around it?, or maybe it's my browser).

Time for the annual bump of Dominic Frisby's 12 Drunk Days of Christmas. "Stick with it - friggin' hilarious."

Long ago, a LHBS far, far away...

Cheers, Shotgun07.

Earlier this year Ralph McTell turned up at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset and played the song he released in 1974, Streets of London. The BBC have videos out on many of the acts that played Glastonbury, but not this one. An audience member shot this clip. There are not many old songs...

A new Christmas song for 2022 that has a real vintage sound to it. When I'm With You (Christmas Every Day), sung by Allison Young with Josh Turner and other top musicians backing her. Sounds like something that was (but wasn’t) sung by the Andrews Sisters in one of those classic 1940s-50s...

Wonder whether Moon Dog will resurrect this 30 year old amusement when they move into Franco Cozzo’s old premises - bus loads of voyeurs passing by to take a perv at the patrons. Could give rise to a signature house brew, perhaps a Heterophobic Bitter. Sydney Morning Herald, Wed, 23 Jan 1991, p.23.

Fifty-three years ago this month the Victorian Government was debating whether the law should be changed to require pubs to sell beer (and other drinks) to customers in clean glasses. A novel idea at the time. Evidently the law was subsequently changed to enforce the clean glass regime that...

Seems Footscray ‘s had a drug problem for years - this from the Canberra Times, Sat 18 Jan 1992 p.16. (Maybe Moon Dog should check under the floorboards before they move in)

Here's the Facebook page for the anti-development mob at Footscray. "Footscray deserves childcare, health care, and affordable housing, not a gentrifying brewery".

A new short form documentary about the Beatles’ best album ever (IMO) and one of the very best albums of the past 50 years - the wonderful Abbey Road. It’s the story about the birth of an album and the death of a band. The narrative glides through the complexity of the album’s genesis, it's...

For the uninitiated (and check out the comments under the video on the YouTube page). I worked in a factory in South Melbourne in the early 80s and one of the packing girls there got married and her parents had given her a Franco Cozzo imported bed as a wedding present. She brought...

A couple of craft brewery-related stories in the Melbourne press over the last few days. A reminder that running a brew-pub is not all froth and bubbles - if it’s not the bloody council, it’s the bloody residents! Regarding the Moon Dog story, anyone who grew up in Melbourne in the ‘70s and 80s...

Just a few days ago, and it’s the end of the opening night of ‘A Beautiful Noise’ - a new Broadway musical inspired by the works of Neil Diamond. And the man himself, 81 years old and a bit frail, stands and gives this impromptu rendition of Sweet Caroline from the balcony. Onya Neil.