Stalking Venus

If I was going to pick someone I thought might do a good job with a screen version of Lewis Caroll’s classic opium-induced tale, Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton would definitely be on the shortlist.
I think I’d have preferred to see a Terry Gilliam version, if only because he would have made it darker and [...]

IOL is reporting this morning that the elderly are being beaten up by their own children in order to gain money for drugs. From the article:
“Many pensioners are being abused by their families, by their own children and grandchildren. Their grandsons need money for drugs and they get beaten up,” said Yvonne Bassier, chairperson of [...]

Okay, so that was funny, but I’m not going to fuck about here. Smoking kills people. All independent surveys show that it’s one of the leading non-natural killers in the world. People do it because it’s addictive.
Nobody enjoyed their first cigarette. I had to choke mine down. It tasted fucking awful and made my head [...]

Today seems to be a particularly good day for bizarre news.
In the Northern Territories of Australia, a man was recently arrested for speeding along in a car filled with drugs (inlcuding 2 cannabis plants on the back seat), at 150km/h, using a video camera to film himself masturbating, while shooting at kangaroos with a rifle.
I [...]

You can call it Meth, Tik, Speed, Crank, Crystal, Ice, or anything else you want. Fact is that 4% of Aussies are using it. Technically, that means that four out of every hundred people you meet in Australia, are speed freaks.
This according to a study performed by the National Centre for Education and Training on [...]