August 2010

Best use of Twitter since the last best use of Twitter

Submitted by Rick Eyre on August 4 2010, 7:54 pm

For @paulandstorm #kanyenewyorkertweets on TwitpicIn what is surely the finest use of social media since William Shatner performed the tweets of Sarah Palin on late night television, the 85 year-old cartoon archive of the New Yorker magazine has been revitalised, drawings recaptioned with the dee

The Raul Julia, featuring Tony Abbott as The John Astin

Submitted by Rick Eyre on August 3 2010, 11:51 am

News yesterday of a makeover in Julia Gillard's election campaigning style surely contained a typographical error when it referred to "Real Julia". It brought back images, firstly of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" but also of "The Addams Family" (more so its motion picture sequel, "Addams Family Values").

That, in turn, takes us way back to July 2010, when the Australian Workers Union put out an unfunny and not particularly clever attack ad, but which suddenly takes on a whole new relevance: