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Richard Cooke

  • I Got Nothin’ for You

    Richard Cooke | The Nation Reviewed | July 2007 | Society & Culture
    Dave Panichi is one of the greatest jazz trombonists Australia has produced. He is also the straight man in one of the greatest unintentional comedy routines ever recorded. "I could live to be 150 and cure cancer, and I'd still go down in history as the guy from the Buddy Rich tape,"...

  • Bugging Out

    Richard Cooke | The Nation Reviewed | May 2007 | Environment | Society & Culture
    Simon Beer has spent the past five years trying to convince himself that the Apocalypse will be fun. Not that he calls it the Apocalypse. His fellow survivalists call it TEOFTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) or the Long Emergency, the Collapse, the Shift or the Event, as in, "There...

  • Kuru Awareness Week

    Richard Cooke | The Nation Reviewed | April 2007 | Media | Society & Culture
    The US Vice President, Dick Cheney, took an unwelcome guest home with him from his recent Australian trip. Never a healthy man (he has had four heart attacks and a quadruple bypass), the VP complained of calf pain on his return and, sure enough, an ultrasound revealed a deep-vein thrombosis (DVT)....

  • Why Drug Dealers Vote Liberal

    Richard Cooke | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006
    Mitch may have stopped dealing drugs but he still wears the uniform of his former profession. His outfit is an expo for man-made fibres – nylon and rayon, teflon and polyester. His phone rings constantly, bathing the underside of his face in light. Most drug dealers have an eye for human weakness...

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