Author Archive
Tuesday, August 17th, 2004
Wayne Mammone: His Nerfball Is In Tatters
Interview by Symon Brando
Wayne & Shandeece in happier times
The now-defunct sport of Nerfball always suffered image problems. The fact that it was played with a kid’s soft toy didn’t help. A Nerf ball is a round foam ball, designed in the 1970s for kids to play with indoors – without smashing any of mum and […]
No Comments » - Posted in Sport, Melbourne, Interviews by Symon Brando
Friday, June 25th, 2004
New Maps of Hell
by Symon Brando
image by Rebecca Cannon
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A man shrugs off the clucking of his family and makes his way to International Departures. With the ticketing formalities over, he slumps at the bar and orders drinks.
He sits and waits.
To escape.
A wicked love gone horribly, horribly wrong. Sour times polyfill the cracks, forcing him to seek joy in […]
No Comments » - Posted in Fiction, Melbourne by Symon Brando
Thursday, October 30th, 2003
Bent Hop: Degeneration X
Report by Symon Brando
Photography by Michael Shaw
Sleepy Brain lifts the lid on a sick new musical youth cult: “Bent Hop”. Originating in the suburb of Bentleigh, it has spread like cancer throughout the neighbouring southeastern municipalities…and beyond. It could be coming to a suburb near you.
The cult centres around a horrifying designer drug, “Senility”, used […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Features, Melbourne, Sound, Interviews by Symon Brando
Tuesday, April 1st, 2003
Ross Dowe: Black-Secret Technology
Interview by Symon Brando
Wack-O: Ross Dowe Self-Portrait
Ross Dowe is the manager of Australia’s “National UFO Hotline”, based in Narre Warren, Victoria. There used to be other hotlines available for people to report UFO sightings, but they all seem to have fallen by the wayside – except Dowe’s. As a result, whenever the mass media reports […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Cosmology, Melbourne, Interviews by Symon Brando
Monday, March 17th, 2003
A Threshold Moment: Ross Dowe and the UFOs that Ate My Mind
by Symon Brando
All images by Nadia Agnew
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ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING MEMORIES I have of my dear old Mum concerns a “tall tale” she used to tell me. It was about her apparent childhood “out-of-body” experiences. She said that when she was six, she would often be lying in bed, and the next thing she […]
