Archive for August, 2012
A tale of different momentum
The change has been dramatic. After ten rounds Essendon had won eight games. They were second on percentage to West Coast. North Melbourne, after ten rounds, was twelfth with four wins.
Deception, deceit and destruction
I went to see Curtly McGee at the Woodford Correctional Centre last week. He was pretty banged up, swollen eyes, stitches in a cut above both eyebrows and fat swollen lips. He had two broken ribs. Breathing hurt. Laughing hurt. Talking hurt.
As blood dropped from his nose, Curtly asked me for fifty bucks. He wanted to buy smokes and soft drink. I said I’d give him a hundred if he wrote me another a political story.
Curtly smirked and padded his nose with a tissue. ‘I’d rather be getting beaten up on the inside than be at the mercy of the government on the outside,’ he said.
