Comedian. Host of @theweeklytv on ABC and DRIVE and TGIF on ABC Radio. Host of Any Given Sunday NFL Podcast.
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Charlie Pickering retweeted
En 1975 a Bon Scott, cantante de ACDC, se le ocurrió meter gaitas en el tema It's a long way to the top. Las tocó él mismo, había aprendido de niño. Fue la primera vez que se hizo en un tema de Rock. Nadie lo ha podido igualar después.
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The Maine Senate race is coming down to important kitchen table issues like, "Is it okay to bang your second cousin?"
👀 Daley is the business. This will be great.
Hello, my name's Daley. I'm a co-founder and director at Ludo Studio in Brisbane. You might know me as Thor's puny weak roommate Darryl, and from making Bluey at Ludo, I also created A24's Talk to Me with Danny and Michael Philippou. At Ludo, we also made Robbie Hood for SBS and, more recently, Thou Shalt Not Steal for Stan with Dylan River.
Here's the first teaser poster for Allen, Netflix's first Australian feature film. It's also Ludo's first live-action feature film.
I'd love to talk more about the film here soon, but just quickly - it's about a character who believes the best thing that ever happened to them has already happened.
I know I'm too obsessed with the past. And too much of a good thing is a bad thing. I rewatch movies I loved as a kid, listen to old music and read old books and want to play the same board games I did when I was ten. I'm writing this while l at a graded, boxed Ninja Turtle toy I just got off eBay, sitting above my old HeroQuest and Nightmare board games, next to an unopened, mint-condition packet of Pocahontas SkyBox trading cards VGC.
I spend a lot of time thinking about the past, and one thing in particular that happened to me a long time ago. I think I surround myself with all these things because they're a bit of a Portkey to get back there, while another part is trying very hard to grow up.
We tried to make a film about that that everyone could watch together.
I'd love to talk more about it soon but if you love Cheezels, this is for you.
We made the whole film here on the coasts here in Queensland - even in Coolum. I'm incredibly grateful to Netflix for giving us the opportunity to make it here - and set it here too. We got to work with so many brilliant Australian creatives, in front of and behind the camera, from caters, to transport to costume and make-up and puppeteers to VFX artists and produces and an extraordinary local crew. To create this with them has been one of the best parts of the whole thing.
I'd love to talk more about it and especially the people who brought it to life, here soon.
In the meantime, here's our first teaser poster.
Thanks so much for reading. Sincerely.
Hey Ballarat - I’m doing a standup gig at the Mechanics Institute this Sunday afternoon. It’s going to be a really fun show. Come along. ballaratmi.org.au/event/char…
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A reminder that we’re approaching the 4th anniversary of the date when the poisonous COVID vaccine was going to be activated and kill us all (apart from the sovereign citizens)
The absolute best. None better. Thank you Hugh.
Yup, I’m done. My reporting career has gone from telegrams to the age of AI. It will only pace up from here, but that’s for the next generation. And they’re committed and bright. Good luck. Farewell. smh.com.au/national/tears-tr…
Let’s Go Buffalo!
Welcome to the @BuffaloBills new crib 🏟️
A new era Bills football starts today.
📺: DETvsBUF 10:15 am AEST | 12:15 pm NZST on @ESPNAusNZ @DisneyPlus @NFLonDAZN
Charlie Pickering retweeted
So Australia,
Median wealth per adult (3rd)
Average wealth per adult (5th)
Life expectancy (8th)
Education system (5th)
Liveability - only country in world to have 3 cities in global top 10 cities
Healthiest Countries (4th)
Stability as a nation (5th)
Quality of life (10th)
So far one of the highlights of American sports media coming to Melbourne for the NFL is @grantcohn
The good and not so good about Australia si.com/nfl/49ers/onsi/good-n…
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Ready and waiting legend
Charlie Pickering retweeted
The nine-year-old boy next door lost his father in an industrial accident two springs ago.
Every evening after school, he threw a scuffed Rawlings baseball against his wooden fence. Thud. Thud. Thud. Hour after hour until dinner.
In my culture, one trains with the wooden sword in silence. But a wooden fence never throws the ball back.
I bought a twenty-dollar Wilson leather glove at Walmart.
The next afternoon, I stood on the asphalt twenty paces away, put on the stiff leather, and raised my hand without saying a word.
He stopped. He lowered his glove. He threw.
Snap.
I caught it. I threw it back to his chest.
We did not introduce ourselves. We did not speak about sorrow.
For seven months, from April to October, we played catch until the yellow streetlights hummed to life. Thirty minutes every evening. Just the dry pop of leather in the autumn dusk.
Last Saturday was his Little League regional championship.
I stood behind the chain-link fence by the right-field foul pole, alone, arms crossed.
Bottom of the sixth. Two outs, trailing by one. He drove a low fastball clean over the centerfield wall. The bleachers went wild.
While his teammates piled onto him at home plate, he wriggled out of the dogpile, ran past the dugout, and jogged all the way down the foul line to the fence where I was standing.
He didn't say a single word.
He pushed the red-stitched, scuffed leather ball through the diamond gap in the chain-link fence and pressed it firmly into my palm.
I took the ball, touched the brim of my cap, and nodded once.
He wiped his dusty forehead with his jersey, smiled, and ran back to his mother.
A boy does not need a philosophical lecture on resilience. He needs a man who never drops the return throw.
Charlie Pickering retweeted
Let’s settle this debate…
If you had to pick one helmet for the rest of your life, which would it be?
RETWEET for the “Classic ‘90’s” helmet
LIKE for the “Standing Buffalo” helmet
COMMENT for the “Nickel City” helmet
#BillsMafia
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A frame-by-frame stop-motion recreation of the Beastie Boys’ iconic “Sabotage” video by independent animator Corduroy Frames.
Five years of work. 4,340 hand-animated frames made from card stock, foam, cardboard, tin foil and cotton balls. No AI. Just pure obsessive craft.
The @BuffaloBills uniform debate when @JoshAllenQB enters the chat…. Go Bills 🦬
The @BuffaloBills uniform debate when @JoshAllenQB enters the chat…. Go Bills 🦬