I Watched The Second Leaders’ Debate Because the Creeping Dread of Sunday Night Wasn’t Enough of a Downer Pelican30 May 2016 The Second Leaders’ Debate aired last night, and the hands of everyone watching trembled above their remote buttons with the overwhelming urge to switch to MasterChef. Yet Auspol soldier Wade McCagh endured and, fatigued yet miraculously lucid, emerges from perhaps television’s dullest forty minutes to articulate what went down for you here. PoliticsVoice1 Comment23 views
I Watched The First Leaders’ Debate on Friday Night So You Didn’t Have To Pelican17 May 2016 When the other TV options last Friday night were the AFL, rugby, Eurovision and 'Call and Win: Win Cash Live!', who tuned their sets to the First Leaders' Debate? Wade McCagh did, that's who. Here he runs us through the key takeaways and events, from the meat raffle at the start, to bulk billing announcements, to the all-important tie watch. PoliticsVoice1 Comment13 views
“Was I What You Wanted Me To Be?”: Prince (1958-2016) Pelican26 April 2016 Last Thursday, 2016 sounded a death knell which for countless individuals worldwide, devastated to the point of disbelief. The world is poorer without the supremely talented, sly, shy, god-like human that was Prince. But "we were lucky to have him as long as we did" writes Wade McCagh, who pays his last respects here. MusicVoice0 Comments19 views
4 Review: The Revenant Pelican22 December 2015 It’s a relentless, exhausting story of revenge and survival, elevated beyond mere tropes by the expert cinematography and editing of Emmanuel Lubezki and Stephen Mirrione (both of whom worked on Birdman) respectively. No one is delivering cinematic visions like these three in tandem right now. Film and Production0 Comments10 views
A Cat Named Yoda, Dark Side Flows, and Whether First Order Warriors Listen to My Chemical Romance: The Force Awakens Pelican Roundtable Pelican21 December 2015 Following the midnight screening of The Force Awakens on Thursday, Pelican approached a group of moderate to Sebulba shirt-wearing Star Wars fans to participat... Film and Production0 Comments27 views
A Warrior’s Death Pelican14 September 2015 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword – Matthew 26:52 History is li... Politics0 Comments16 views
The New World Order Pelican14 September 2015 A quarter of a century ago on 2nd August 1990, the first major international crisis of the post-Cold War world began. After months of objections by Iraq for Kuw... Politics0 Comments10 views
3.5 Straight Outta Compton Pelican27 August 2015 Biopics aren’t really independent works of art. They’re inherently revisionist in nature, in that the constraints of scriptwriting and running time and the ... Film and Production0 Comments5 views
