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Phil Hall

Press Service International

Phillip Hall has been too long in Melbourne to see AFL in the same light as those back in Fremantle. East Fremantle born and bred, he would love to see the Dockers back in the eight. But would settle for just beating West Coast twice a year.

  • Plastic Versus Fantastic: Halloween, Día de los Muertos and The Book of Life

     As an Australian who grew up watching the very American Halloween I find it weird.  Halloween is not part of my culture and always looks plastic and fake.

  • The Art of Protesting

    Like all theatre and performance art Protesting is a public display. To have a public display you require an audience and a narrative. It is as simple as mime, though for many cultures much less offensive.

  • Local Cricket versus Flooding Rains

    Its Saturday the third round of cricket for our local cricket club the Lions is washed out. Upstairs in the Sports Bar its getting a bit loud.

  • Converting Melbourne’s Lockdown’s Woe?

    Lockdown ended last year and slowly familiar signs and sounds of Melbourne have returned. The emotional scars of lockdown will reverberate for many years.

  • The Artist’s Muscle

    Writing can be ten minutes of typing and two weeks thinking how to make those two paragraphs better. Writer and Director Taika Waititi has been recorded saying that looking at a screen and typing nothing for six hours and then closing the laptop is writing.

  • AFL Finals Week 3: A Tale of Two G’s

    Do you really want to be the supporter of a club in the finals? The nervous tension. The heart palpitations as they miss goals. As they look like loosing.

  • AFL Finals Week 2: MCG-palooza

    Are you in total surprise over the first week of the AFL finals? Most of the pundits are as well. These were some of the best matches of the season. Each final was an exciting and closely fought contest. The AFL must be in smug mode.

  • The AFL Sabbath Weekend

    With the AFL there is a week off before the finals start. This began in 2016 and was a great success. Absence may make the heart grow fonder. 2016 was also the year the Western Bulldogs won the Grand Final from outside the top four. The Bulldogs are outside the top four in 2020.

  • Satire: Is it Ok to Use it Now?

    In Mel Brooks musical, The Producers a plan is hatched. By putting the worlds worst script into production and embezzling the money raised.

  • Jesus, Almost a Marvel Comics Character.

    Jesus was almost a character in Marvel comics. I am not lying here. Go search marvel.com for the character named ‘A Friend’.