Jenny Valentish
Journalist at Freelance
Journo, author, podcaster, writing teacher, currently working on a book for introverts (Affirm Press 2025) so it's weird that this is my profile picture.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Jenny Valentish
This morning’s location: a field outside Castlemaine, Victoria. The air is thick with flies, attracted to the cow dung but ignoring the nearby dinosaur poo, sturdily constructed from papier-mache. “Oh god,” Sam Neill groans – though these words aren’t actually uttered by Neill but local builder Ian Flavell, who has taken on Neill’s role as palaeontologist Alan Grant – and drops to his knees in front of an ailing triceratops.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Jenny Valentish
Marlon Williams recalls a survey he once read about how often people think about death: on average, once a week. He laughs incredulously. “You know that statistic about men thinking about sex once every seven seconds? That’s how often I think about death.”In an interview promoting his fourth solo studio album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, this existential conversation is unexpected.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Jenny Valentish
It was a beautiful Friday afternoon in April 2010 when Will Salter stood on the shore and appraised a reef break on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. He can tell you the exact time, too: 5pm. As he paddled for 10 minutes towards three other surfers, he could smell remnants from a whale carcass that had washed up months earlier. Seagulls circled. He ducked under a wave and, weirdly, could hear the foam hiss as he surfaced. Then the foam parted like curtains.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Jenny Valentish
David Wenham avoided wearing thongs for 22 years. That’s ever since an iconic scene in the 2003 heist caper Gettin’ Square, in which he slapped his way down a suburban street in thongs and leopard-skin briefs, on the run from cops. If you’ve ever tried running in thongs, you’ll appreciate the lasting limping. “I probably would have done that more than 50 times. Jonathan likes many takes,” Wenham says of the film-maker Jonathan Teplitzky.
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2 months ago |
watoday.com.au | Jenny Valentish |Mandy Beaumont
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Introversion diagnostic questions. Does seeing two Beatles singing into one mic make your stomach tauten?
Introversion diagnostic questions. Does one person trying to sleep outweigh the needs of two or more people wanting to party?
