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Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson says his players must be prepared to do whatever it takes to reach the grand final.

Lance Franklin kicked eight goals to help Hawthorn secure the week off with a 51-point drubbing of the Bulldogs at the MCG.

Lance Franklin broke the 100-goal barrier and won the Coleman Medal while Brendan Fevola was left pondering what might have been at Docklands on Saturday evening.

Hawthorn's Lance Franklin has become the first AFL player since Tony Lockett in 1998 to kick 100 goals in a regular season.

Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson says the public focus on Lance Franklin kicking 100 AFL goals has become hysterical and is out of proportion with the achievement.

Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has criticised some of the changes to the AFL's illicit drugs policy.

Melbourne motorists will face the first extended morning clearway times tomorrow morning.

Would anybody be interested in starting up a regular game of hoops? I'm trying to diversify my exercise regime beyond running, rowing machine and gym work, so I figured I'd try to get some people together to shoot some basketballs, trash talk one another and generally get moving after work.

I'm thinking the inner-city as our location - I'm in Richmond and there's a few courts around here. 6 - 7pm sounds look a good time to do it, maybe once a week? ...Read Full article»

hey guys

for live videos of tonigh's stafford st warehouse party goto

www.peter.id.au

(if you click the link when I'm filming live from my mobile you can actually see it live!)

A gallery of photos from the day is available here:
http://localhero.biz/display/media/images/shaw_cup_9/
more soon...

Hola, I am writing to you to see if you are interested in holding a stall at the next warehouse party in Stafford St, Collingwood.

Saturday 15th March from 3pm...Read Full article»

Attention Richmondites:

Be wary, I've just been warned by our receptionist that there's a "grotty man" wandering around the neighborhood, exposing his junk to ladies and generally being unpleasant. The police have been called, but if you're going to be around the Goodwood/Lennox St area, be careful. Barring that, be prepared to point and laugh!

I just got an email from the Channel Nine Studios doing a call out for audience members for a new TV show that's supposedly starting early next year.  They've described it as "Australia's first reality sitcom... with a surprising twist!"

They add: " Do you like to watch hilarious reactions? Channel 9 is producing a new show where people are caught off guard and anyone can expect the unexpected". And that's it....Read Full article»

Collingwood man Richard John Lovett (more recently of Bundoora) burgled he whom the press are carefully describing as "disgraced millionaire businessman" Steve Vizard"s then Toorak mansion while Steve and the kids were at home slumbering. You may recall that little Stephanie V. woke up to find him rifling through her things, in her bedroom. Security cameras at the disgraced white collar feller"s lair had Lovett and a mate in the mansion for 40 minutes. Remarkably, after the altercation outside with Stephanie"s dad, that same evening Mr Lovett went on to burgle another house nearby. Then, in Collingwood the following day, he stabbed a man in the back, puncturing his lung, in the course of the Harmworth St liberation of a backpack, clothing, and a gold necklace in a street robbery graced by a 20cm long blade. (more...)

If so, please return to its owner, or ring 000. It's 3m long. It's as thick as an arm.  It escaped from a balcony at  Tim Marshall's Noone St, Clifton Hill apartment on the 9th, where it had lived with another carpet python for a decade. They suspect it might be in your roof, or up a tree. The police suggest not leaving little birds outside in little cages, but the opinion on that is divergent.  Tim says the snake ate well last week, so not to worry. The Hun reported that the snake is not on any medication.  And this, for me, is the fascinating bit of the story.  What motivated Patrick Horan to report that bit of non-news?

Hi there maniacs.

This morning while I was walking to work in Richmond, I crossed Church Street and noticed a beautiful cat whom I often see around the neighborhood was basking in the sun on the sidewalk. "How cute," I thought.

Then I got closer and realized she was dead....Read Full article»

The marvellous slow food market is on at the Convent today - get a rhubarb tartlett from the rhubarb lady, a strong coffee from Lentil as Anything, a loaf of bread from the bakery, and stock up on unbelievably good home made panforte for Christmas presents.  But take your own plastic bags, or baskets. And there"s an open day at the Convent besides, where you can go inside the buildings, check out the artists" studios, the "wellbeing studios", and probably even the most beautiful "cello shop in the world.  Market finishes at 1 p.m., open day goes till 4 p.m. 3MBS is running tours.

The Age has reviewed a bar that I like, the Abbotsford Convent's Handsome Steve's House of Refreshment. I never seem to get there though. This could be the prompter.

There are some wonderful homeware places for the well-heeled in Abbotsford proper in addition to all the lifestyle supermarkets in Bridge Road. There"s Orient Express, where you can buy Asian people"s cultural heritage. There"s Mondo Trasho, cool in every way, and then there"s one of my favourite shops, Zelij. It"s a Moroccan importer (alas, Maison de Tunisie, a lovely little place on Smith St towards Victoria St a few years ago is no more). It has beautiful Moroccan lights, bowls, Moorish tiles, tableware and cookware, and some distinctive rugs and armchairs and sofas. Also, lots of Moroccan cookbooks and books with titles like "Moorish Style"....Read Full article»

Update, 18 November: Here's an article from The Age which suggests that the Channel Deepening Project may see toxic sludge disturbed by the dredging wash back up the 22 km long tidal estuary of the Yarra all the way up to Dight's Falls, bringing foul smells with it.

Original article: Well, it's not the most interesting news in the world, but apparently Dight's Falls is to be rebuilt so that it looks just the same. Apparently they're going to have a public consulation. They're going to make an even better fish ladder to help little fishies, and eels to get over the big bump. Did you know that the eels that live in the Yarra can actually get out, walk around the falls, and get back in? That's what the web says. What I'd like are some stepping stones across the top so you can walk over it safely. Anyone else?