As usual, from The Age:

‘Black Saturday’ cops on sex chargeMEX COOPER 1:38pm
SA policemen believed to have been investigating bushfires charged over sex attack.

In writing news, I have a few short stories on the go and almost ready to be sent out, and I’ve cracked 50k on Spatterbaum and Zitherbother, the MG novel, so [...]

Disgusting ambiguous headline subtitle of the day, courtesy of The Age:

Woman charged with killing elderly mother found with maggot-infested foot.

From Bookseller and Publisher Online:
Potter Lexicon Appeal Dropped
No one’s interested in words these days. . .
In other news, the electricity to my apartment has been connected (in what is apparently known as a ‘re-energisation’).

There are two language-related things that entertain me greatly: the creative application of apostrophes, and amibiguity.  I am aware that these two things are probably not the most exciting or daredevil of hobbies (although some of the misapostrophication out there is gasp-inducing in a manner not unlike that of watching a car spin out of [...]