You can talk about ex-Neighbours actors going on to greater success; Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce, Natalie Bassingthwaite and Delta Goodrem for example. But here at mrtrivia.net we believe the real success story of the vintage Aussie soap opera is New Zealand actor, Alan Dale. From 1985-93, Dale played the character of Jim Robinson. Jim was a linchpin parental character of the early...
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A blog buddy and tweep of mine The Not Drowning Mother or @TheNDM for short, runs a very tight weblog called Not Drowning, Mothering. ...
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Hey folks, Enjoy Mr Trivia’s Music in this soul searching new YouTube commercial. As I wrote on Google Buzz at the time (remember that?):”Finally I can grow as an artist. I thought about starting a band, but realised that in all likelihood we’d grow apart as artists and eventually split. So I made this...
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Three years ago, huh? Remember our hopes and dreams? Remember thinking we could understand LOST?...
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Despite being known in my tiny circle as somewhat of a Star Wars heretic - that is to say: I don’t love Star Wars with every fibre of my existence; can see some flaws even with the first three movies; have never said and never will say that Empire Strikes Back is the best of the original trilogy; and I don’t give a Womp Rat if Greedo shot first – setting aside all this blasphemy, I am...
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Three strips in and we’re already at the Creation Myth….excellent. This was obviously December’s FOTC strip and just as obviously it is in black and white and drawn by someone else. For reasons now lost in the mists of time – possibly involving Time Travel, although that seems unlikely – the usual artist couldn’t do the strip so we asked a mutual friend, Teck,...
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This is the second of these that we printed long ago in a hard copy publication called the FTI News....
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Zeitgeisters, I’ve renovated my website lately and I got this thing called a globally recognised avatar – a Gravatar. Your Gravatar is supposed to be your avatar in every place you need one. If you comment on someone’s blog, if you Twitter, if you mouth off on a forum – wherever you’ve travelled to online and identified yourself using your email address – then potentially your...
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I don’t usually use this blog to congratulate a business on its loyalty program, so if you don’t want to see me engaged in such an activity then stop reading now. ...
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The 1996 West Australian television series SWEAT returns to ABC 3. Produced by Margot McDonald and EP’d by Paul Barron this 26 part series is probably best known these days as the late Heath Ledger’s first regular TV role. ...
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