Michael from Perth | Michael From Perth

My new show – 22 THINGS I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN

15
Jun
22 THINGS I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN at The Backlot Perth: your questions answered

15
Jun
22 THINGS I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN at The State Library of WA: your questions answered

15
Jun
22 THINGS I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN: a behind-the-scenes look at my show

15
Jun
22 THINGS I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN – the programme

28
May
What’s happening with Cinema Paradiso?

7
Jun
The Lego version of Stonehenge …

5
Jun
When you’re on holiday, is it worth getting up at 6:30am to watch the sunrise?

3
Jun
SHAMELESSLY SEEKING ATTENTION – continue the experience!

1
Jun
SHAMELESSLY SEEKING ATTENTION – the programme

1
Jun
SHAMELESSLY SEEKING ATTENTION: a behind-the-scenes look at my new comedy show

8
Apr
Samson is about to slay a Philistine

11
Dec
A victory 44 years in the making … or should that be 43 years?

30
Jan
Another WA place I didn’t know existed

23
Jan
The views are better than the sandals

16
Jan
Not the raspberry record for long

9
Jan
Finding a deep beach barrel

2
Jan
My Boxing Day 50

26
Dec
Random Buenos Aires walls with art

19
Dec
Pride beats shame in the Buenos Aires subway

12
Dec
The First World of Alto Palermo

5
Dec
When Chita came to Perth

28
Nov
Forbidden Broadway in Perth

21
Nov
The Taming of Araluen

14
Nov
Going to say I’d gone

7
Nov
Argentine beef in a French restaurant

31
Oct
Sunday night serials

24
Oct
How green weren’t my thumbs … or are they?

17
Oct
The fun flying fox

10
Oct
Newest York

3
Oct
The TV show I’d like to watch

26
Sep
Elvis is everywhere

19
Sep
They may have missed out a few bits…

12
Sep
Cookie dough with cookie dough

5
Sep
Headingley before tongue

29
Aug
Crosswalks in Argentina are lovely painted road decorations

22
Aug
After the deluge

15
Aug
A beach to myself

7
Aug
Barracas: the real-life movie set

1
Aug
Should tennis be an Olympic sport?

25
Jul
Why I should have gone anyway

18
Jul
You know you’re obsessed with theatre when …

11
Jul
Toilets got me into the newspaper

4
Jul
A great time … just in time

27
Jun
In Argentina, ‘C’ does not mean ‘Cold’

20
Jun
One of those places you’re supposed to visit in Buenos Aires

13
Jun
Cinderella the Survivor

5
Jun
The closest I may get to Russia …

30
May
Go Youth!

23
May
Ema has a plan

16
May
Heroic losers

9
May
Out in the open

2
May
Danger: Avalanche zone

25
Apr
Can you do a comedy about cancer?

18
Apr
Four reasons I’m looking forward to the Spanish Film Festival in Perth

11
Apr
How much does it cost to go here?

5
Apr
Arlington … the Washington DC Cemetery that’s actually in Virginia

28
Mar
Disappeared

21
Mar
Will I see a Lego Golden Gate Bridge before I see the real thing again?

14
Mar
Only one to go …

7
Mar
Should roads be sealed?

28
Feb
How many shades of green are in these photos?

21
Feb
The Fringe that wasn’t quite

14
Feb
Perth during last week’s lockdown

7
Feb
The future Dr Evil’s first trip abroad

31
Jan
Satisfying my soap opera obsessions in the winter(ish) of 1995

24
Jan
Massage chairs are no longer the only difference

17
Jan
The blue loop

10
Jan
Cousin Jo beat Cold Rock

3
Jan
I wore my first face mask …

27
Dec
From Congress to Congreso

20
Dec
A place to read

13
Dec
The clothes line with the best view

6
Dec
San Telmo Starbucks

29
Nov
Bremer Bay beaches

22
Nov
Taking a fresh look at COVID

15
Nov
What flag is this?

8
Nov
A Half Loop

1
Nov
More sunset in Exmouth

25
Oct
Keep left at the Tropic of Capricorn

18
Oct
Like there’s a choice?

11
Oct
There are things I can do well …

4
Oct
Art installation or weeds?

27
Sep
Rubik’s cube toilets in Geraldton

20
Sep
Not the real tropic, but great clouds

13
Sep
Sunset in Exmouth

6
Sep
Sunrise in Exmouth

30
Aug
Proof that I’ve managed one reef

23
Aug
Skywalking with the Governor

17
Aug
Better Bremer Bay bedrooms

9
Aug
I thought this was the Chilean flag

2
Aug
I have extracted money from the US Congress…

26
Jul
The street in London named after me

19
Jul
The Beat Museum

12
Jul
Who has right of way at a San Francisco ‘All Way’ stop sign?

5
Jul
The subway station with movie reels and artificial trees

28
Jun
A cigarette butt on a Buenos Aires street plaque

21
Jun
The upside of a San Telmo prison

14
Jun
Today I couldn’t get to a beach in far North Queensland …

7
Jun
Is it just me, or do these look like coronaviruses?

1
Jun
From fjords to Kmart

17
May
Is ‘Hollywood’ believable?

10
May
Luckier than in 2001

3
May
This present might be a little out of date

26
Apr
Boozy bike bottle

19
Apr
A different way of looking at the Casa Rosada

12
Apr
Not Malaysia, but I took it

5
Apr
The 2020 Spanish Film Festival…

29
Mar
A friend sent me photos from Malaysia

22
Mar
Hanging horse hooves at MALBA

15
Mar
Modern art opposite modern art

8
Mar
Star Wars at the Teatro Colón

1
Mar
Return to resurrections

17
Feb
Pride in the air

9
Feb
Back to the streets

2
Feb
A taco worth tasting

26
Jan
My letter to Nestor

22
Jan
People the Madres admire

19
Jan
Next month, I’ll be having more of this in Buenos Aires

4
Jan
What did traffic lights mean to some of my Buenos Aires taxi drivers?

28
Dec
Paraguay near paradise

22
Dec
A didgeridoo in Buenos Aires

15
Dec
The three certainties in life…

8
Dec
Do we still need Pride Marches?

30
Nov
A model town with rosary beads on a subway

24
Nov
Waterfalls be dammed

17
Nov
Retire, travel and paint

9
Nov
Sleepy Salto swimming

3
Nov
‘Home Work’ to skip

27
Oct
Immortality through death and Lego

20
Oct
Bye-bye Bruce Bochy

13
Oct
Taxation without representation

6
Oct
Why does Foggy Bottom need protection?

29
Sep
Further Tales – flawed or fun?

22
Sep
Why did I wait so long to go to Cine Vivo?

15
Sep
Old Trafford

8
Sep
More tales of a family

1
Sep
Telling old fresh tales

25
Aug
I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to…

18
Aug
I’m not really a Fremantle person, but…

11
Aug
Should you go to La Boca?

5
Aug
Skyrailing solo

28
Jul
Tigre is a tad more than an hour from Buenos Aires

21
Jul
The mansion you didn’t want to visit

14
Jul
Buenos Bakeries

7
Jul
Artistic spiders of Buenos Aires

1
Jul
Grey ice cream in Argentina

23
Jun
The power point for all plugs

16
Jun
Coke and a walkman amongst the ruins

9
Jun
Spanish in three months… and sixteen years

2
Jun
How polluted water got me to Antarctica, via spaghetti and salad

26
May
Edible chess in Argentina

18
May
The hidden Buenos Aires Basilica

12
May
Criticism reaches Cuba; Greek tragedy reaches the Dominican Republic

5
May
Buenos Aires bike paths are now a thing

28
Apr
The best way to decide what film to see…

21
Apr
The best view from a makeshift clothesline

14
Apr
My most prized possession from the Stamp and Coin Show

30
Mar
Before the Kardashians, there was Noelene

24
Mar
Some random images from the Centro Cultural Kirchner

17
Mar
What is art?

10
Mar
What’s missing from this New York City lift?

3
Mar
My own episode of ‘The Love Boat’ on Kangaroo Island

24
Feb
You know you’re turning fifty when…

10
Feb
Pacman at the Portrait Gallery

27
Jan
Bad Bunny’s back!

19
Jan
Argentine authenticity is absolutely average… but Gaucho’s is AAA+

13
Jan
Sweet charity begins away from home

6
Jan
The real Queen Anne was my favourite

30
Dec
The chocolates that only spellcheck doesn’t like

23
Dec
The clowns in the bathroom of a wine-making Rubik’s cube

16
Dec
She’s still Argentina to me

12
Dec
Nine reasons ‘The Enquiry’ will never be a school play again

5
Dec
I met Germaine Greer last night

29
Nov
Henry VIII & Other Gossip

24
Nov
An interview with myself about ‘How to Write a Tasteful Novel’

19
Nov
The last performance of ‘How to Write a Tasteful Novel’

18
Nov
How to Write a Tasteful Novel – Continue the experience

16
Nov
Last night’s two performances of ‘How to Write a Tasteful Novel’

11
Nov
Mt tasteful new show: Your questions answered!

11
Nov
The opening night to ‘How to Write a Tasteful Novel’

3
Nov
How to Write a Tasteful Novel – The programme

21
Oct
My entry into the twenty-first century

18
Oct
A hitch with my publicity

14
Oct
Clean and natural swimming in Uruguay

7
Oct
What time should you meet someone in Buenos Aires?

1
Oct
Ice cream after Evita

25
Sep
An unexpected result of cataract surgery

16
Sep
How to avoid photographing ants in Colonia

9
Sep
The King James who lived

2
Sep
What the Evita Museum didn’t say

26
Aug
Goodnight moon, but I will keep seeing you

19
Aug
The road to Alaska… sort of

12
Aug
Kissing the ground in New Zealand – there was tongue

29
Jul
Great gays out of the closet

22
Jul
Should I visit the Great Barrier Reef?

15
Jul
Emulating Charlene

8
Jul
Stalinist purges, cannibal rats and Antarctica

1
Jul
Missing and finding Xanadu

24
Jun
The gradual, graceful decline of the locutorio

17
Jun
Giant eyes in Argentina

10
Jun
Three countries at once

3
Jun
What happens here?

27
May
The only thing we have to fear

20
May
The day I rejected Cher’s dressing room for Margaret Thatcher

13
May
The reason the Casa Rosada is still standing

6
May
An Argentine kangaroo in an art gallery

29
Apr
Where’s Virginia Beach?

22
Apr
The Buenos Aires English word experiment

15
Apr
Will there be a nude bank robbery at the 2018 Spanish Film Festival?

7
Apr
A sunny December day in Manchester

1
Apr
The world’s greatest Japanese dish was in Hollywood, Argentina…

25
Mar
Why Swanbourne beats Puerto Natales

20
Mar
Vegetarian paella on a Sunday afternoon

18
Mar
Where gay men stop and lesbians go

10
Mar
I’ve forgotten boring

4
Mar
My Argentine friend Paula and I may soon only be 14 hours apart

3
Mar
Detachable contraceptive cargo pants in Central Park

25
Feb
Animal liberation in the beef capital of the world

17
Feb
Fandango til Saturday

13
Feb
Anyone for pumpkin soup?

10
Feb
Queen Mary: The proper queen coming soon to Fremantle

4
Feb
Will it be tasteful?

28
Jan
The most romantic way to ruin a wedding dress

21
Jan
The only time I ever went horse riding

14
Jan
Jiggling coins, Hawke, Keating and Warne

7
Jan
The municipality in greater Buenos Aires they probably won’t be naming a new Perth suburb after

31
Dec
No more blackest days, though maybe some dark ones

24
Dec
The capital cities I’ve been to since my last visit to Canberra

17
Dec
Meeting Martina at the Madame’s

10
Dec
Gratuitous shots of me by a pool

3
Dec
The best way to find out the meaning of skycouch

27
Nov
How Mae West inspired me to abandon Peter Pan at the world’s most powerful waterfalls

21
Nov
My idea of hell

16
Nov
How old is the woman on this Buenos Aires billboard?

12
Nov
Sleeping at ATM’s in Buenos Aires

4
Nov
Argentine Pride

26
Oct
The grounds of the French Chateau

22
Oct
Derby before Argentina and Wonder Woman

15
Oct
Why you shouldn’t eat ice cream on the street in El Chalten in the south of Argentina

8
Oct
Billie beats Bobby

1
Oct
‘Evita lives in each one of us’

17
Sep
Michael from another Perth

9
Sep
Why Lego is better than the real thing

2
Sep
The price of karaoke at the Price of Love

26
Aug
Bushwalking with Jennifer

20
Aug
Meeting a burnt bail, veil, ball or stump… or maybe ashes from a fireplace?

12
Aug
Unstoppable Momentum

6
Aug
Little Mermaids enchant the child-free

30
Jul
Can Lego be sexy?

29
Jul
Mrs T at Madame T’s

22
Jul
A relaxed Raj remnant

15
Jul
Robert Burns: The Scottish Che Guevara?

8
Jul
Loving’ or Lovin Mrs or Ms Thatcher

1
Jul
The most easterly toilets in Australia

24
Jun
I’ve never been to Ayers Rock, but…

17
Jun
I’m on a celebrity… Get me out of Milford Sound!

10
Jun
Getting to six different continents… and getting business class benefits on the cheap

7
Jun
I’ve been to Cardiff, but I’ve never been to Wales

3
Jun
The ascent up Mount Sinai

31
May
The Giant Cask

27
May
Sydney Harbour Bridge

24
May
Asking God to save the Queen of Port Lockroy

20
May
An inflatable dragon in San Francisco

17
May
Twilight in the Kimberley

13
May
South American Swastikas

3
May
Wonder Woman’s surprise appearance in the Northern Territory

29
Apr
Why it was safe to wear sneakers in Purmamarca

22
Apr
Love to Love Paco at the Spanish Film Festival

19
Apr
Giraffes have long tongues

15
Apr
The highest toilets in Australia

12
Apr
A defence of my bleached hair … with a Dalek!

8
Apr
My thirtieth anniversary of being an April fool

1
Apr
Yoda’s surprise appearance in London

25
Mar
Tales of San Francisco – Or nowadays would it have to be Detroit?

22
Mar
Ten unbelievably important questions about musicals

17
Mar
The Fun Home that wasn’t much fun, but was well done

15
Mar
Why has ‘Wicked’ outdone ‘The Wizard of Oz’?

11
Mar
Livvy, Pete, Amelia and Michael: Earthy Delightfulness

8
Mar
Comforting bar philosophy in San Francisco

4
Mar
The biggest competition for the biggest competition’s biggest blooper

28
Feb
Banner, bakery, bus, library… Four reminders of the Falklands/Malvinas

25
Feb
The great tuba fire of London

22
Feb
An interview with myself about ‘The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun’

19
Feb
It’s over!

12
Feb
The second last night of ‘The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun’

11
Feb
Another night of ‘The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun’… two more to go!

9
Feb
Another night… more positive, affirming fun!

8
Feb
The 4 Feb performance of ‘The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun’

5
Feb
The opening night of ‘The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun’

4
Feb
My second preview of ‘The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun’

2
Feb
My first preview of ‘The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun’

2
Feb
How to be photographed weighing less than 80 kgs

28
Jan
A musical whaling station on Deception Island

25
Jan
Fringe World is back… and so is Sharon!

21
Jan
Where to see a singing, dancing, breastfeeding, villainous food critic

18
Jan
What will ‘The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun’ teach me?

18
Jan
Your chance for a liturgical dance with Susan Higgins

14
Jan
Why Wyatt will win one

11
Jan
It’s Rotten now there’s nothing Rotten in New York City

7
Jan
My Fringe World Festival 2017 show: Your questions answered

4
Jan
My 2016 in a wallet

30
Dec
Five quid gets you a perfect Chinese Box in Leicester

24
Dec
The play that went right

21
Dec
Do we prefer Shame to Pride?

17
Dec
Has anyone in show business had a run like this?

14
Dec
Are Sydney Opera House plush dolls cuter than teddy bears?

3
Dec
Seeing a world record getting broken… but it’s already been broken another hundred times since!

30
Nov
Chocolate Congresses

26
Nov
Lesbian, gay and transgender London traffic lights

23
Nov
Lesbian and gay Munich traffic lights

19
Nov
Why ‘Oliver!’ leaves me wanting some more

16
Nov
It was harder to love the dream after ‘My Fair Lady’, but I still enjoyed it

12
Nov
Eliza Doolittle should have married Mrs Higgins… and other random comments about ‘My Fair Lady’ at the Sydney Opera House

9
Nov
Donald and Hilary fight it out in Washington DC gift shops…

5
Nov
Three mistakes at the Hollywood Museum

2
Nov
Buenos Aires gay Halloween

30
Oct
What to do on a warm(ish), sunny(ish) later afternoon and evening in London?

26
Oct
The European Union: Investing in Britain’s future…

23
Oct
Richard III: The unexpected poster boy for refugees

16
Oct
The Supreme Court that sells teddy bears

12
Oct
Richard III, but no Wonder Woman

8
Oct
Happy Birthday, Julie Andrews!

1
Oct
Triple-fried duck fat in Watergate

28
Sep
A Shakespearean lip balm set and more…

24
Sep
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

21
Sep
Katharine the Greatest

17
Sep
A tale of a Second City – Free Speech (While Supplies Last)

14
Sep
The Buenos Aires beach they don’t tell you about

10
Sep
Why you should get your tax done in Port Douglas

7
Sep
Wonder Woman’s surprise appearance at the US Library of Congress

3
Sep
How the Americans market ‘To Be, or Not to Be’

31
Aug
How the Americans market Shakespearean insults

28
Aug
Two near misses at seeing ‘The Phantom of the Opera’

24
Aug
How ignorance of a language helped me walk off a chocolate addiction

20
Aug
Three Broadway musicals in 27 hours

18
Aug
Anything you can do…

14
Aug
‘Leninade’ at the International Spy Museum

13
Aug
Cynical eye candy in LA

10
Aug
Facts, fantasies, Elizabeth Taylor and a Palm Springs party

9
Aug
The San Francisco night when my fangs devoured Fang’s

7
Aug
To look thinner in a photo, put a Diet Coke bottle over part of your face

4
Aug
How the San Francisco Bomb Squad is trying to soften its image

2
Aug
Is ‘A Chorus Line’ still relevant in our cynical age?

1
Aug
When you buy a new pair of sandals, throw out the old pair…

31
Jul
A ferris wheel on the way to a Jucy Snooze and a supermodel’s philosophy

28
Jul
Which way up should this photo be?

28
Jul
From New York to Perth, with one stop via Game of Thrones

23
Jul
Blank eyes, but a fabulous view emerging from the clouds

20
Jul
Fearing more than fear

16
Jul
A third eye and a brain that’s overflowing

13
Jul
Where to go after the Edinburgh Fringe?

9
Jul
Ten tips when seeing the Edinburgh Fringe

6
Jul
The burden of knowing

2
Jul
Teaching about counterfeit money to six-year-olds in San Francisco

29
Jun
Football: A moving experience in La Boca

25
Jun
Ruby slippers and the reason for a twisted sense of moral values

22
Jun
Finally, a post about tango… in the sand, in Virginia!

18
Jun
Hug salt and pepper shakers

15
Jun
When paragliding off the Andes, don’t read the fine print!

12
Jun
Can you be too successful?

8
Jun
Street theatre in Buenos Aires

5
Jun
The sexiest spit in the business

1
Jun
Purmamarca and its seven colours of peace and beauty

29
May
Art in Yorkshire?

25
May
Is Buenos Aires named after the Holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary?

22
May
The seats to get at Shakespeare’s Globe

18
May
Grafitti on the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral

14
May
Highlights of the 2016 Spanish Film Festival

11
May
The best office in Australia

10
May
What’s the southernmost city in the world?

10
May
My friend Garry and I saw five movies yesterday…

8
May
‘What does penguin taste like?’

4
May
Iguazu Falls from the Brazilian side in white and black

1
May
The Goldfields thunderstorm that came with art and a Thai Beef Salad

27
Apr
Animal life and death in Puerto Natales

21
Apr
Everything I learned at the 2015 Spanish Film Festival… with 2016’s ABOUT TO START!

19
Apr
Sunset in Puerto Natales

14
Apr
A Spanish birthday warning

11
Apr
Camp Cusco clothes and my Californian honorary little sister

10
Apr
Why didn’t ‘Allegiance’ get enough allegiance?

7
Apr
An inflationary thing I learned from the Spanish Film Festival

5
Apr
What is this Buenos Aires building?

3
Apr
A very good name for a law firm

30
Mar
Resurrections on-the-hour in a city that rents hotel rooms by-the-hour

27
Mar
The crucifixion at a religious theme park

24
Mar
Going out with a Grand Splendid bang

20
Mar
What do these cities and years have in common?

17
Mar
The Creation, a gym and a rude baboon

13
Mar
Kissing Antarctica with tongue

10
Mar
Things I learned from the Spanish Film Festival: #20

8
Mar
Nestor, Cristina, Alicia and the constitutional guarantee

6
Mar
The deception of Deception Island

3
Mar
The Barbie Store in Buenos Aires

28
Feb
An Australian in New York watching an American in Paris

24
Feb
18 Things I learned from the Spanish Film Festival

23
Feb
The last two (fun!) nights of my (sold out!) Fringe Show

21
Feb
Opening night of ‘My Argentina: Learning Spanish and Loving Thatcher’

19
Feb
Things I learned from the Spanish Film Festival: #14, #15

16
Feb
The second preview of my tasteful show

14
Feb
How did the first preview of my first Fringe Show go?

11
Feb
Why ‘ahead of the class’ should be a class ahead

10
Feb
Three things I’ve seen in Dave Warneke Fringe Shows

10
Feb
Why I’m glad Sharon from Canada will be back in Perth

10
Feb
A Dalek at Iguazu?

7
Feb
Plastic drumming in Florida, Buenos Aires

31
Jan
My Fringe World 2016 Show: Your questions answered

30
Jan
Lago Onelli: An Argentine history of falling things?

24
Jan
‘Weren’t you cold in Antarctica?’

17
Jan
Perito Moreno Glacier: The Brokeback Mountain of Argentina?

10
Jan
Why had I never heard of Iguazu Falls?

3
Jan
Twelve other shows to see at Fringe World 2016

30
Dec
One day’s drive from the city of Salta

27
Dec
The second Christmas tree in Plaza de Mayo

24
Dec
Things I learned from the Spanish Film Festival: #3, #4, #5

22
Dec
The difference between Calafate and Cafayate

20
Dec
Something to learn at Cairns Airport

17
Dec
Things I learned from the Spanish Film Festival: #2

15
Dec
Police guard McDonald’s from the gays

13
Dec
The night I met Mrs Thatcher

22
Nov
An old king tames an old queen

22
Nov
My inspiring view of Table Mountain

18
Nov
Who owns Booth Island (or whatever it’s called)?

15
Nov
Which Martin Luther King is it?

3
Nov
Wonder Woman gets culled in Perth, but emerges in Buenos Aires

15
Sep
Is there a better use for a newspaper?

10
Sep
A reason to be cautious at urinals

4
Sep
The problem with translating Lord of the Flies

4
Sep

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