Moron to Moron: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure is out now wherever all good books (and some shonky ones) are sold!
For e.g., at Booktopia
If you're in Melbourne, please come along to the launch on Thursday 9 May at Bella Union, Trades Hall.
If you're not in Melbourne, there's a chance I might be in your neck of the woods sometime soonish ... check here
Meanwhile, check this zangin' book trailer, courtesy of Puck Murphy
Brace yourself folks - the cover of Mörön to Mörön has arrived.*
MARVEL at the matching T-shirts!
REVEL in the faux-Cyrillic font!
CHORTLE at the oversized heads and Photoshopped horse!
Brought to you by Allen & Unwin and the good people at Squirt Creative.
(*I'm the one on the right.)
I am very excited (and slightly daunted) to announce that I will be commencing a Journalism PhD at Monash University. I will be researching and writing about "The lived experience of climate change in Australia". All things going well, Australia will still be here in three years, and I will have written a book about it. Stay tuned, and if you have any "lived experiences of climate change" you feel like sharing, be in touch!
Tom Doig is extraordinarily pleased to announce that Allen & Unwin will be publishing Moron to Moron (or, Moron to Moron: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure) as a full-length travel book in 2013.
Allen & Unwin is Australia's leading independent publisher, has been voted "Publisher of the Year" eleven times including the inaugural award in 1992 and the last three years in a row, and is generally awesome.
Zang!
On Sunday 1 April 2012, Tom Doig, Henry Feltham and Laura Jean McKay kicked out an epic two-hour radio show, all about TRAVEL. Travel songs, travel anecdotes, obscure references to early 90s gangsta rap and class tourism - this show has it all.
Listen to the podcast in all its globetrotting glory
(Originally broadcast on Dunedin's excellent Radio One, as part of their "Sunday School" series)
Hitlerhoff will be included the curriculum of a seminar called "Lachen über das Anderssein (Comedy is Serious Stuff)", to be taught at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) Germany in 2012.
Tom Doig wrote and produced Hitlerhoff, which premiered at the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival, selling out a three-week season, before touring to the 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festival. It was acclaimed as “clever, funny and outrageous” (The Age) and "sickeningly hilarious” (Rip It Up).
On Friday 9 March 2012, or thereabouts, Tom Doig and Laura Jean McKay set sail for the Land of the Long White Cloud, aka Aotearoa, aka New Zealand.
Our ship is called the MV Natalie Schult; it is a German ship, flying a Cypriot flag, with a Croatian captain and Filipino crew. It is slower, more expensive, less convenient and much more exciting than flying. It is also less harmful to the environment. All about Natalie
While in NZ, Tom will be writing Moron to Moron: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure.
Tom Doig is extraordinarily pleased to announce that Allen & Unwin will be publishing Moron to Moron (or, Moron to Moron: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure) as a full-length travel book in 2013.
Allen & Unwin is Australia's leading independent publisher, has been voted "Publisher of the Year" ten times including the inaugural award in 1992 and eight times since 2000, and is generally awesome.
Zang!
Boho Interactive: " ... there are few topics less amenable to theatrical presentation [than climate change]. Theatre thrives on personal tales, narratives of family, domesticity and the like. Climate change is abstract, impersonal, incomprehensibly massive in scale and with hugely diffuse impacts that occur over a timescale of decades. Trying to condense a massive global phenomenon into a show of an hour or less is an intimidating challenge, and it’s hard to figure out where you can even find a starting point ..." more
As part of the Express Media event "Shock! Horror! It’s Voiceworks Live!", Tom will be reading his neglected masterpiece of gore "Winnie the Pooh as told by Cormac McCarthy". Tom will also read a horror classic from Voiceworks #65: Genre. Be Afeared. Be very Afeared.
WHEN: Friday 21 October, 6pm
WHERE: The Wheeler Centre (where?)
HOW MUCH: Free, but please book here