Stranger Thingies
From Felafel to Now
Published on 19. October 2017
319 pages
978-1-74224-401-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 within these pages run the gamut from the early felafel days to the shiny age we live in where Donald Trump is the President of the USA. And it does not shy away from the greatest controversy of our age: potato cake vs potato scallop.These hilarious pieces cover a wide range of topics from food to fitness and politics to pork, in all its glories. And, of course, fashion. Ever the equal opportunist, John Birmingham skewers them all.
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Content
- 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 '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 world
- Ferris Bueller'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 reduction
- Yoga 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
- 'This car's from the future!'
- Modern Man
- Manspreading
- Without pants
- Cold snap
- Bachelor pad
- The Tasmanian Babes fiasco
- Manflu
- 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 Minister'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 toast
- Exciting marketing opportunity
- I read Senator Malcolm Roberts's scorching indictment of the CSIRO's criminal conspiracy to ruin us all so you wouldn't have to
- Election wrap
- I can haz kompromat?
- Why I voted for Cthulhu
- The triumph of neo-stupidity
- The phone call
