Warwick McFadyen

1 week ago | footyology.com.au | Warwick McFadyen |Rohan Connolly

US President Donald Trump stands and salutes troops during the Army 250th Anniversary Parade. Photo: GETTY IMAGESIt’s my birthday next week. I consider it a grand coincidence of the cosmos and history that I share the date with one of greatest essayists and satirists to grace the language in Ambrose Bierce (born in 1842). I also share the date with the conclusion of the Battle of Bannockburn in the Scottish War of Independence whereupon Robert the Bruce was victorious for us Scots.

3 weeks ago | footyology.com.au | Warwick McFadyen |Rohan Connolly

God’s taco shell waiting to be filled with messianic ambition with a topping of self-righteousness. Image: ESQUIRE MAGAZINEHe was on a mission from God. He didn’t keep it to himself. He told the world, sent it spiralling through cyberspace, and to give it due gravitas he appeared in the declaration, dressed in a austere power suit striding down the streets of an important looking city, looking important. It was, of course, Taco Man.

1 month ago | footyology.com.au | Warwick McFadyen |Rohan Connolly

Warren Zevon was described as an ‘‘artist’s artist’’, perhaps damning him with faint praise. Photo: GETTY IMAGESWe saw another election the week before last, one beyond the frontiers of electoral boundaries or party lines. And it gave long overdue acclaim and recognition to an artist, whose field is music, and thus inhabits that world with no frontiers. Twenty-two years after his death, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has acknowledged singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.

Feb 9, 2025 | footyology.com.au | Warwick McFadyen |Andrea Connolly |Andrew Eyers |Rohan Connolly

Black Sabbath in 1970 (from left): Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne. Recently, in a small part of England, the world turned away from its troubles and the forces of heaviness were brought into the light, and formally acknowledged. And it was a good thing. Black Sabbath were officially recognised for their work.

Jan 28, 2025 | footyology.com.au | Warwick McFadyen |Andrea Connolly |Andrew Eyers |Rohan Connolly

Deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley delivers her Australia Day speech at Noreuil Park in Albury. Photo: BORDER MAILJust when we thought we were emerging from the silly season unscathed, along comes a politician to spoil it. Introducing the deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley. And thanks for nothing. No doubt Ley was trying to communicate a time in history through a modern equivalent, thus rendering it easier to comprehend.