Archive - Alien Sideboob

June 2025

The grim pinata

I remembered a favourite misremembered quote today, William Goldman's famous line about Hollywood.

Jun 27 •

John Birmingham

Minutes of the Four Horsemen Corporation’s Quarterly Planning Meeting

Date: June 20, 2025

Jun 20 •

John Birmingham

A Ponzi scheme for used periscopes.

Let us now gather to commit the body of AUKUS to the deep, and offer a solemn "bugger me" for the slow, groaning death of Scott Morrison’s last great…

Jun 13 •

John Birmingham

My apologies, Mr Premier

An open letter to David Crisafulli

Jun 6 •

John Birmingham

May 2025

No one would have believed, in the increasingly stupid years of the 21st century, that I would open my daily scroll of doom to learn that James…

May 30 •

John Birmingham

Choosing what you want.

Sometimes these things are easy to write.

May 23 •

John Birmingham

The Decline and Fall of the House of Walmarticus

(A little programming note.

May 16 •

John Birmingham

What if they had a culture war and nobody came?

All good things must come to an end, even the Festival of Shameful Joy.

May 9 •

John Birmingham

This is why we can have nice things.

Today is the Festival of Schadenfreude.

May 5 •

John Birmingham

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