hell’s paving stones

HPS once attended a very grand cook-off at Joe’s at which David Letterman, and his Show which is Late, sustained a certain amount of derision and irritable dismissal - which can flow easily when the room is full of jaded twentysomethings and the paella is beyond reproach.

We begged to differ - or at least […]

(image is of a Darth Vader Battle Buddy, currently an ebay auction item.)

PARENTS! Uncertain of whether or not to take your young ones along to a screening of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith? Worried about the effect that uncompromising portrayals of violence and vengeance may have on your golden-haired children? Studies […]

Found in the Gentlemens’ Amenities between the 1st and 2nd floor of the John Medley Building, East Tower, Melbourne University.

HPS staff planned to do a post on the toilet cubicle graffitti around the Melbourne Uni campus way back last year, but never got round to it - something about carrying a camera into the […]

Okay, so Charlie Kaufman wins the Best Screenplay Oscar and hell’s paving stones gets resuscitated. Coincidence?

“…I was waking up every morning freaking out. I thought my career was over” - That’s a quote from an Esquire magazine interview - Dec 2002, v.138, i.6, p139.

You and me both, Charlie, you and me both. Since […]

Especially not the notion that you should post frequently out of respect to your readership. But now I’ve sorted out my commitment issues, let’s get married again, baby! C’mon…

That sound you hear is Joe’s considerable reputation going ‘pop’.

At the risk of wearing out one my few pop-culture touchstones, Bill Watterson, in my copy of the […]

There is no more appropriate subject for this site than Rove McManus and his production company, Roving Enterprises (’appropriate’ being defined as anything that sticks to my badly articulated theme of “well-meaning people who are, nevertheless, going straight to hell”).

Comedians in general probably deserve a special level of recognition as unintentional disaster-mongers. But - […]