Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
I haven’t seen Bruce Willis’ remake yet, but I’m not sure if it can top this earlier Bronson revenge pic For elite runners, heaven and hell combine in the extremes of California's Death Valley.
Somewhere deep in a file drawer, or on a computer server humming away in a basement, are thousands upon thousands of numbers, with names and identities attached. They’re called grades. They represent an objective reality, which exists independent of what people want reality to be. They sit silently, completely indifferent to indignation, angry petitions, irritable gestures, teachers’ removal from classrooms—all the furor and clamor of institutional politics.
Public service boss John Lloyd has continued his push for a new public service workforce, predicting traditional hierarchical structures and union consultation will go, while "on-demand workers" and flexibility are the way of the future.
In a presentation on the future of work and what it could mean to the APS on Thursday, the Australian Public Service Commissioner said an "engaged and flexible workforce will be critical to business success". John Lloyd: more contractors, smaller role for unions in the future of work
The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall
in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci
(Veep, In the Loop). Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader The Death of Stalin (2018) - Rotten Tomatoes
For a comedy, The Death of Stalin makes for unsettling viewing. On the one hand, Armando Iannucci's
period film seems strangely familiar, the speech patterns and political
squabbles of the inner circle of the Kremlin
This defining moment of 20th century history is the subject of British satirist Armando Iannucci's new film, The Death of Stalin,
released on Thursday. Given the farcical nature of his death, the
comedy director said he toned down some of the details, fearing nobody
would believe the chain of events
Hitler and Goebbels on the set of Barcarole, 1935.
Even during the Third Reich, stories circulated about Hitler’s affairs with actresses, which he had never had. In 1936, Polish actress Pola Negri, the star of Mazurka(1936), a film much admired by Hitler, returned to Germany to find that her ‘simplest wish’ was ‘granted with the speed of a royal command’, as if she were under the special protection of the Führer himself. Yet she had never even met him. Hitler left affairs with actresses to Joseph Goebbels, though when one of the Propaganda Minister’s affairs – with the *Czech actress Lída Baarová – threatened to ruin his exemplary Nazi marriage, Hitler stepped in to stop it. Hitler’s interest in Riefenstahl was not sexual, but pragmatic. After seeing her mountain-climbing film The Blue Light(1932), in which she appears in control of the majestic alpine scenery around her, he was convinced she would be an ideal director for the Nazi rally films. She did exactly as he had hoped, using her skills in cinematography and mise-en-scène to reinforce visually what the rallies were designed to demonstrate: that Hitler was the coordinating centre of and reference point for the Nazi faithful, massed in their serried ranks.
A woman struggling to write a novel becomes writer-in-residence at her local tire shop.
This is Amy — a writer who was struggling on her latest book. But after taking her car in to get new tires, she ended up cranking out about 4,000 words in the waiting room.
On the 100th day since the arrest of Reuters journalists Wa Lone
and Kyaw Soe Oo, the National Press Club of Australia joins its
counterparts in clubs throughout Asia calling for their immediate release.
Hitler and Goebbels on the set of Barcarole, 1935.