Two books that I read back-to-back recently seemed to weirdly complement one another in my mind.
Both were "autobiographies", but The Sandman's autobiography is much more fictional than fact, as The Sandman is just comedian Steve Abbott's invention for an Australian radio segment and stand-up comedy routine, as far as I know.
I didn't know anything about The Sandman until I read the 1998 book I found in an Op Shop recently and knew nothing about who Steve Abbottwas.
I bought a t-shirt from REMO years ago with the above design of The Sandman in a boat staring into a lighthouse beam and wore that shirt around the house until it fell apart years later.
I only liked it because it reminded me of the Byron Bay lighthouse and found the cartoon image funny.
BecauseThe Sandman's autobiography is based around the northern beaches of Sydney, the airport referred to abovein the book would have been the Sydney airport where Schapelleleft Australia to fly to Bali on October 8th, 2004, with her boogie board bag either filled with weed, or not filled with weed.
To be honest, I can't even remember what happened onOctober 8th, 2004, or the songs that were top of the pop charts that day.
How did I not ever see that 'Call on Me' video above in 2004?
Better late than never, I guess?-)
Steve Abbottmust have been proud of his efforts writing this book, because he certainly achieved his goal in the epilogue of the book, as it was pretty much a waste of time reading it, other than me finding out who this Sandman character was. It's not all that funny to be honest IMO and I've since passed it on to a street library for some other reader's amusement... or disappointment.
I still have no idea whether Schapelle Corbywas guilty or not after I had finished reading her book, but I did find it amusing that Channel 9 in Australia made a TV series in 2014 about Schapelle Corby, which was directed by Anh Do's brotherKhoa Do.
Anh Do's autobiography 'The Happiest Refugee' is soon to be turned into a movie I hear, and I read his book last year just before seeing him bring the book to life on stage inLogan.
I don't eat chocolate all that much, but when I went to the supermarket on 'InternationalPolar BearDay'and saw that there was a chocolate infused with Bundaberg RumI just had to try one of those.