Richard Mortlock

Once a copyboy. Now I've been around the world three times, two county fairs and one duck fuck ... Cheers!

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@mariekehardy So this is Twitter and what have you done,
Another snark over, a new one just begun.
And so this is Twitter, I hope you had fun,
The nasty and the drear ones, the scolds and the glum.

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@sarah_aarons @Zedd Girl, stay. You’re on fire and there’s no exit sign in the middle. Don’t leave me alone or lonely. Happy now?

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@Jeff_Sparrow @fergusonjw It wasn’t even the front frigging page. It was online breakout quote. Front Page pointer: Clerical Collar gone for prisoner in black. P4: Straight shooter Judge decries ‘nasty, venomous, brazen sex offender.’ Now apology?

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@Jeff_Sparrow @fergusonjw Read the article.

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@fergusonjw @MichaelRoddan @Jeff_Sparrow This was Twitter to a T. Everyone piling on, no one had read the article which sharply told how Kidd gave Pell the respect he deserves - None.

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

Perhaps read on for context @jeff_sparrow before piling on: “A 53-year-old former Adelaide college boy, Kidd did not miss. Not once. Pell, he said, was an arrogant, nasty, venomous, brazen sex offender who had manifestly damaged two young lives.” Oh.

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@Jeff_Sparrow Perhaps read next 3 sentences for context before piling on: “A 53-year-old former Adelaide college boy, Kidd did not miss. Not once.
Pell, he said, was an arrogant, nasty, venomous, brazen sex offender who had manifestly damaged two young lives.”

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@benji_driver @Domaincomau But, but ... you’re the one who headlined tweet with, ‘Our new Opera House!?!’ Domain headline is, Architect ok with controversy. Nowhere did anyone but you say it was our new Opera House. Which was the clickbait that saw me read article.

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@benji_driver @Domaincomau Who says ‘our new Opera House?’ Read article, maybe? “No construction since the Opera House in 1958 has excited as much enthusiasm and ridicule, but architect Koichi Takada doesn’t mind one bit.”

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@MrJamesMay @ShaneJacobson @marklamprell I blame ducking auto-correct. I’m sure I wrote, ‘that dependable divine Shane Jacobson.’ That’s what my lawyers are telling me.

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

Great story. Great cast (Cromwell! Thompson! Waterman! Weaver! Billing!) Great director. As long as @marklamprell can wrangle that demanding diva @ShaneJacobson this film is gonna be a winner.

[Cinema Australia @CinemaAustralia]

Congrats @marklamprell!

NEVER TOO LATE is the riotous story of four heroic Vietnam veterans, famous for escaping from a POW camp, whose new challenge is to break out of the nursing home from hell to chase their unrealised dreams. https://t.co/MmSBkiNffg

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@ShaneJacobson @marklamprell Sorry. Auto correct problem. I wrote ‘dependable divine @ShaneJacobson ‘ 😉

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@CMscreens @DrLaurenCH I watched first & 2nd season last year. I win!

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@DameHat @EffingHardy One ep in on McMafia but sidetracked by Dirty John starring Eric Bana on Netflix: the plot is hard to believe except ... it’s based on a true crime podcast!

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

Prime time tonight on SBS, Australia’s multicultural and multilingual broadcaster: Henry IX (UK;) Secrets Of Harrods (UK;) Trust Me (UK;) Counterpart (US;) The Good Fight (US;) The Night Manager (UK.)

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@DameHat Hopefully you have SBS On Demand or insomnia cause it’s on very late tonight. 😑

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@eliza_brien One man’s opinion piece does not represent a host of voices. Also, as a reader of News Ltd papers I now find I’m an extremist. Whatever next?

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@FitToPrint There’s a horrid piece of kitsch to the left of the tree. Who dumped it there? There are laws against tossing rubbish on public roads. Action now!

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@domknight Front page of Daily Telegraph: Cardinal Sin. Front page of Herald Sun: Guilty As Sin. Miranda is a right wing columnist who is a practising Catholic. Why does she become Murdoch Press? Same for Bolt.

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@GlynisTN I reckon straight to the video tape. Don’t spoil the story.

[Richard Mortlock @richardmortlock]

@GlynisTN Dirty John starring Eric Bana and Coach’s Wife on Netflix is also worth a go. Impossible to believe plot except it’s true!! Was originally an LA Times true crime podcast.