Well, it's that time of the year again. Where I bid farewell for the year and provide some holiday reading for you all.
I can announce that 2013 will be bringing some changes to Nah Seriously, some of which have occurred already regarding formatting and the like. The plan though is to narrow down my subject matter a bit more into current affairs / politics and maybe even create another blog for some of my sporting writing. I'll do some thinking over the break anyway and come up with an appropriately cunning plan.
A strange old year 2012 has been on so many fronts though. I'm a little tired and jaded from the experience to be honest with so much frustrating me and causing angst. I've certainly noticed that I'm more and more switching off the mainstream media as my source of news and opinion and I'm thinking that's only going to become more prominent in 2013. Twitter has certainly added to that movement as I've been able to access more independent news sources such as New Matilda, The Global Mail and The Conversation.
Anyway, traditionally I provide a list of articles/stories for your holiday reading that I've put together throughout the year. However, this year is different and the below list is merely articles/stories from the last few weeks and even days. They should be quite topical then so here's hoping they engage you and provoke some thoughts/feelings as you too stop living life to a timetable and enjoy a break from the normal day-to-day.
So first up we have Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and the now infamous Fox News US Election moments "that will live forever".
One for the music fans and those who enjoy writing about music is this guy who must have spent an inordinate amount of time compiling the 500 worst reviews in Rolling Stone magazine.
In line with my recent post on the AFL Draft being a lottery and putting too much pressure on 17 year old kids, comes this republishing of an article by The Age's Emma Quayle on the very first AFL Draft held in 1986.
Another one from The Age is this article from Martin Flanagan that sheds some light on the experience of a grandfather of a premature birth. Flanagan is more known for his football writing but I must say I'm reading more and more of his other writing, including this one about Gough Whitlam and this one about Christopher Hitchens.
Getting political now, there's this piece in The Atlantic on the confusion and complexity of what is currently happening in Egypt. And domestically there's this blog post on the Ashby conspiracy if you don't mind a few choice words and colourful language.
There's plenty of other political articles and posts I could list here but given the year we've had both nationally and in Queensland I think we could all do with a bit of a cold shower and a nice lie-down.
Moving on to the media then, I've got Ben Eltham's take on 2012 in New Matilda here and this study of the bias of carbon price reporting from The Conversation here.
It's probably too late already but here's a great piece in The Sydney Morning Herald on the materialism of Xmas and our 'trashing of the planet for a talking piggy bank'. Very thought provoking.
And a change of pace comes from here then and a little op-ed from John Birmingham about his daughter's primary school upon her graduation to high school. One for some my family members who are teachers and hopefully enjoying a long break after a long year.
So there it is my friends. EDM's Holiday Reading for Xmas 2012.
I'll be back in 2013 I can assure you but I must say I'm looking forward to a break myself and a bit of a rejig of things here on Nah Seriously in the new year.
Til then my friends,
EDM.
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