Stuart Condie

I’ve been really enjoying The National’s new record this past week or so. In other news, I’ve been really nostalgic and sad for the past week or so.

Wow. It’s already that time of year when I briefly consider googling Met Gala before realising I don’t need to know what it is. Comes around quicker every year

“There’s got to be some­one else like me who still loves adventure, still wants to go and hurt them­selves dur­ing the day, but then wants a re­ally good Shi­raz at the end of the night.” I had some fun conversations while writing my latest story

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

Gourmet meals, foot spas and a "nice, nice coffee": Ultramarathons roll out high-end amenities to tempt runners, confounding traditionalists. https://t.co/LXXiFQYFUb

I've never taken Ozempic but last night I did dream that Margaret Thatcher had written a very well-received run on The Flash that I was very keen to see collected in hardback

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

Where have Matthew McConaughey, Clint Eastwood, Oprah Winfrey and Johnny Depp all been seen lately? In the bizarre dreams of Ozempic users. https://t.co/yTfEkERlCw

“Freddie Mercury’s Tiffany & Co silver moustache comb” sounds like the perfect Christmas present. Or a British racehorse https://t.co/G1TEBuldOZ

RT @MundialMag: My wife: did you get high and watch clips of Cruyff’s Barcelona again. Me, crying: yes My wife: did he have the trench co…

Suede’s debut album is as far away from today as the Beatles’ debut album was when Suede’s debut album came out. This means nothing of course but I’m tickled thinking about how ignorant of time’s elasticity I was in 1993

Suede HQ @suedeHQ

“So, 30 years ago, this is where it all began. A mixture of live songs that had won us a following + our first experiments in the studio. Listening back now it still has that sense of wildness + drama, and possibility of those early days. So young and so gone, indeed!” -Mat Osman https://t.co/nn7lbrEgsu

He had Tottenham playing the best football I've ever seen from the club. He improved inherited players. He trusted youngsters. He knows the club inside out. He was fired before he could finish his painful rebuild. He's available https://t.co/D3lBu9oxM8

Odd then that Elvis Costello was more than happy to admit to nicking Dancing Queen’s piano sound for Oliver’s Army (1978)

The Guardian @guardian

Bono says pressure to look ‘macho’ made him hide his love of Abba https://t.co/cQqkJUbaHt

Is diabolical roundabout etiquette a Sydney thing or an Australia thing? https://t.co/i26V0iyNci

Reading this quite lovely piece made me wonder whether I am unusual in never having had a teacher who made all the difference (I'm very aware that may say more about me than my teachers) https://t.co/fPEjhdbeQE https://t.co/nmVp8x3UNS

Serious country

The Guardian @guardian

MP Sussan Ley dresses up as Tina Turner in parliament to raise money for cancer care – video https://t.co/ojp12womUE

This week I bought a ticket to see @tmbg perform Flood in Sydney later this year and it led me to reconnect with the person who taped me the album 33 years ago. Nice

I can't help but feel that if I had just a modicum of the chutzpah it takes to launch a $500M share buyback after collecting $2B in government stimulus and 'exiting' 10,000 workers, my life might have worked out quite differently https://t.co/sV2n16JUwg

At least pick a lane, Australia https://t.co/CSyPVy7FG5

Stuart Condie @StuartLCondie

Australian Twitter deep in the potato cake v potato scallop debate while refusing to confront the fact that the whole country refers to spring onions as shallots and shallots as spring onions

I thought Brendan Fraser was brilliant in The Quiet American (2002) and I definitely remember telling someone this. If that person is reading, please feel free to reach out and congratulate me for being super ahead of the curve

I ventured back onto Twitter today having taken a break due to 1) closing my Tweetdeck tab to improve my focus, and 2) the strange mess that is the Twitter app lately. One of the first bits of news the app served up was the resignation of Jacinda Ardern. Which happened a week ago