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Our unhealthy food neurosis

Kate Moss got herself in a bit of trouble last week by declaring "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." Apparently this is an anorexic catch cry, and heath professionals condemned Moss for uttering the phrase, claiming it could tip people...
Wed, November 25, 2009, 4:01 pm WST
First they came for the shirtless bogans...

Welcome to this week's edition of: "What arbitrary rule will they think of next!" Today we take a look at the organisers of Stereosonic music festival who have banned blokes from taking their tops off.It's a move which seems to have been...
Thu, November 19, 2009, 1:33 pm WST
I go to Northbridge (and I'm still alive!)

I caught the train to Northbridge the other night, walked up William Street and met some friends for dinner.After dinner we walked down to Ezra Pound, had a few more drinks before walking to Deville's Pad where we stayed a few hours before walking to...
Thu, November 12, 2009, 7:30 am WST
Stuff it

Stuff.There's just so much of it. And I, for one, want less of it. It started when I moved house about a year ago. I packed up all my stuff, stuffed it into a truck, unloaded it at my new flat and set about finding places in which to stuff all my stuff....
Tue, November 3, 2009, 10:05 am WST
Drowning in someone else's nostalgia

As a kid, all I ever wanted to do was live in the olden days.The olden days didn't exactly encompass a particular time frame, but in the olden days girls got to wear fluffy dresses and do things like curtsey and churn butter and hang out in castles with...
Wed, October 21, 2009, 4:04 pm WST
Baby, I can drive my own car

Hot on the heels of the Hey, Hey It's Saturday blackface skit (and yes, I thought it was in bad taste) we have our own, slightly more local "PC gone mad" controversy....
Tue, October 13, 2009, 4:16 pm WST
I only have (square) eyes for Dexter

My name is Belle Taylor and I am an addict. It started out innocently enough. I didn't even like it that much at first, but everyone had gone on about how good it was so I persevered. Soon I was hooked, cancelling appointments, finding excuses not to...
Mon, October 5, 2009, 4:30 pm WST
Everyone is watching you dance

There has been a lot of talk about Kevin Rudd dropping the F-bomb. And yeah, yeah, it's shocking, I'm appalled, really, I only hear such words spoken, oh, I don't know, every day of my life....
Tue, September 22, 2009, 5:04 pm WST
Sexual harassment in the office

Karen tells a story of a girl she works with, in her 20s, who has recently started dating a much older man in the same office. "I don't get it," she says. "He's such a sleaze.""Maybe he spends big money on her?" someone...
Wed, September 16, 2009, 1:57 pm WST
Dressed to excess

I'm in foreign territory.Inside Cover staff writer Daniel Hatch is on holidays so I've been drafted in to fill his shoes for a couple of weeks and I am therefore sitting at his very neat and immaculately decorated desk. Now, being the man about town...
Thu, September 10, 2009, 4:40 pm WST
Nowhere better or worse, just different

As a rotary exchange student I had a saying drummed into me: Nowhere is better or worse, just different. It's a nice sentiment if you are talking about Australia and Denmark, everyone link arms and sing Heal the World! If you were comparing Cottesloe...
Tue, September 1, 2009, 1:49 pm WST
End of the world as we know it (and that ain't fine)

We're all going to die. The world is going to end. And it's all because you went on that holiday.Of course, we've known the world is going to end for a while. Al Gore told us. But it's easy to forget and go about your daily business until one day you...
Mon, August 24, 2009, 12:59 pm WST
A delicate question of 'class'

It’s Saturday night and I’m waiting at the taxi rank in Fremantle. I start chatting to the group in front of me. Shouldn’t be too long, which direction you heading? Bloody oath it’s cold. Normal stuff. And suddenly I’m...
Tue, August 18, 2009, 6:22 pm WST
While Kyle goes back on air, his victim is still out there

Austereo have announced shock jocks Sandilands and Jackie O will resume their show on 2Day FM next week following a two week hiatus. Now, I view commercial radio in much the same way I view scientology and veganism. I know it's out there and I accept...
Thu, August 13, 2009, 7:54 pm WST
They've got my vote

Catching up with an old friend over a Chinese meal in Northbridge, the conversation rolls around, as it so often does, to the Nanny State. "Drives me nuts," Emma fumed. "This place never wants to change. Did Daylight saving get...
Fri, August 7, 2009, 6:03 pm WST
Love, money and the western suburbs

It's probably best we don't use his real name.Let's call him Tim.We started chatting at a mutual friend's birthday party and never has such a brief conversation with a stranger left me feeling so......
Fri, July 31, 2009, 5:16 pm WST