Dominic Knight

Crush or crush through

Dom — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:29:28 +0000

Like the infamous Black Monday stockmarket crash, the events surrounding my first crush began towards the end of 1986, and ended abruptly in 1987. I spent Year Four and Five in London, and like most of the boys in my class, I “fancied”, as we termed it in our ridiculous Cockney patois, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed [...]

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24 hour plane people

Dom — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:31:06 +0000

I first flew overseas in 1985. I was eight, and my parents had decided to move to London. I boarded the Qantas plane with a sense of enormous excitement. Every detail was fascinating to me, from the safety cards to the inflight magazine to the strange compartmentalised food. I can still remember being engrossed by [...]

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The thirtysomething dilemma

Dom — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:44:15 +0000

A few years ago, when I was in my early thirties, my generation’s relentless instinct for coupling and childrearing, aided and abetted by our ceaseless expattery, reduced me to my last two Fun Single Male Friends Of About My Age Who Also Lived In Sydney. Tim and Sandy – not their real names, to add an [...]

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Julia Gillard, we’re just not that into you

Dom — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:41:23 +0000

This should have been a wonderful week for the Prime Minister. She should have been tripping merrily through a field of political daisies, as difficult an image as that might be to conjure of our workaholic Prime Minister. On Monday, she announced the imminent delivery of the landmark National Disability Insurance Scheme – which has [...]

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Yet another rant about smoking

Dom — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:57:19 +0000

I don’t want to seem a wowser, a square or a prude, although I am in fact all three of those things, but I despise smoking. I despise it even more than I hated watching the Nyan Cat video for a solid hour, and that’s saying something. (The lengths of research I go to for this column!) [...]

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Plumbing the depths of my DIY inadequacy

Dom — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:49:19 +0000

I got a call from the plumber at 8.30pm the other night night. He could repair my bathroom taps the following morning. I was impressed, having only put in the request earlier that day. When suited me, he asked. I work in the afternoons and evenings, so I replied that before midday should be fine. [...]

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I am soooo over Instagram…

Dom — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:44:56 +0000

Whenever you make an outlandish claim on the internet, you will get the same snarky response – “pics or it didn’t happen.” The English writer and commentator Charlie Brooker discovered this a few days ago when he claimed on Twitter to have concocted a chocolate and mackerel paté. He duly posted this photo. So, if you claim [...]

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Why you shouldn’t watch The Hunger Games

Dom — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:52:40 +0000

I consider myself something of a trendspotter. I like to keep my ear to the ground, find out what the Kids Are Into These Days. So let me give you a little exclusive, the lowdown, the skinny, about what I’m tipping to be the next Harry Potter or Twilight. It’s a little series called The Hunger Games by Suzanne [...]

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Presenting Knight’s Ten Laws of Karaoke Etiquette

Dom — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:01:49 +0000

Humanity has achieved so many extraordinary things in recent times. We’ve invented space travel, self-driving cars and the little red light that tells Kyle Sandilands when to shut up. But I would argue that of all the rich bounty which science has bequeathed to humankind, there is nothing finer than karaoke. Sure, I wouldn’t win [...]

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Place a boomgate in front of your televisions

Dom — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:59:27 +0000

I hate The Shire, and it hasn’t even been filmed yet. I hate it even more than the Mayor of the Sutherland Shire does, and she hates it so much that she’s threatened to put a boom gate over all of the bridges in her area to stop them filming there. I hate it even more than I [...]

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