Patrick Marlborough
@cormacmccafe.bsky.social
writer, comedian, musician based in Walyalup, WA.
The Yeah Nah Review on substack
co-host of The Battler
debut novel NOCK LOOSE out NOW!!!
The Yeah Nah Review on substack
co-host of The Battler
debut novel NOCK LOOSE out NOW!!!
someone gave out my private mobile number to the greens re that crikey piece. please don't do this. if you have a problem, you go through the publication, not the freelance journo. I have a stalker and don't love my number being 'out there' etc. Cheers!
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
someone gave out my private mobile number to the greens re that crikey piece. please don't do this. if you have a problem, you go through the publication, not the freelance journo. I have a stalker and don't love my number being 'out there' etc. Cheers!
Richo and Laws were two decrepit grotesques who could only succeed in a media/political ecosystem as middling and venal as Australia’s. Dunderhead pigs.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Richo and Laws were two decrepit grotesques who could only succeed in a media/political ecosystem as middling and venal as Australia’s. Dunderhead pigs.
Richo was one of the greats in the 'looks like a Christmas ham' tradition of Australian pollie (Latham, Canavan, Joyce - could only dream of his pinkness)
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Richo was one of the greats in the 'looks like a Christmas ham' tradition of Australian pollie (Latham, Canavan, Joyce - could only dream of his pinkness)
The Mushroom Tapes is everything wrong with Australian publishing: a sorry industry run by hacks and mediocrities peddling content slop for brain dead seniors, middling academics, and office drones. These people have made themselves immune to shame or embarrassment and we’re all worse off for it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The Mushroom Tapes is everything wrong with Australian publishing: a sorry industry run by hacks and mediocrities peddling content slop for brain dead seniors, middling academics, and office drones. These people have made themselves immune to shame or embarrassment and we’re all worse off for it.
ok, who’s gonna pay me to review The Mushroom Tapes?
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
ok, who’s gonna pay me to review The Mushroom Tapes?
thinking of examples I’ve seen of this IRL: once in Greenwich Village, I saw a fish and chip shop (very rare for the states) named ‘A Salt and Battery’
GTA VI delayed until 2026 so that Rockstar can add more business names that would seem funny if you were a British man in the mid-2000s
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
thinking of examples I’ve seen of this IRL: once in Greenwich Village, I saw a fish and chip shop (very rare for the states) named ‘A Salt and Battery’
feel like this should go without saying but if you work in comms/media for a major politician and a journalist writes something about them you do not like, do not dm your complaints to the journalist. Just as a matter of you looking stupid etc
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
feel like this should go without saying but if you work in comms/media for a major politician and a journalist writes something about them you do not like, do not dm your complaints to the journalist. Just as a matter of you looking stupid etc
uncle just called his skin cancer specialist “the butcher from Buchenwald”
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
uncle just called his skin cancer specialist “the butcher from Buchenwald”
should I take out a bank loan to fund a small press? cbf with grants anymore
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
should I take out a bank loan to fund a small press? cbf with grants anymore
Reposted by Patrick Marlborough
man...after all the rave reviews, the good sales, the prize shortlistings, the festival appearances, my public profile etc...i do not understand why i can't get a literary agent in this country. what more do i gotta do, honestly???
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
man...after all the rave reviews, the good sales, the prize shortlistings, the festival appearances, my public profile etc...i do not understand why i can't get a literary agent in this country. what more do i gotta do, honestly???
won a capybara chef on the claw machine today. Goodbye, NSW
November 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
won a capybara chef on the claw machine today. Goodbye, NSW
boomers will have the most intimate conversation imaginable on speaker phones while holding the phone to their head regular style
November 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
boomers will have the most intimate conversation imaginable on speaker phones while holding the phone to their head regular style
you must belittle australian book critics who have not read and reviewed Nock Loose. They are weak willed, and their publications are false and pitiable.
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
you must belittle australian book critics who have not read and reviewed Nock Loose. They are weak willed, and their publications are false and pitiable.
i hate gay halloween. what do you mean you're Christopher Pyne?
November 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
i hate gay halloween. what do you mean you're Christopher Pyne?
you shall refer to him only by his new official title: Nonce Andrew
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
you shall refer to him only by his new official title: Nonce Andrew
who are some non-Australian pubs/writers I could send Nock Loose to be reviewed? help me out
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
who are some non-Australian pubs/writers I could send Nock Loose to be reviewed? help me out
addicted to Smashing Machine soundtrack…
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
addicted to Smashing Machine soundtrack…
lovely photo i took at the Meanjin wake of the Overland editors gloating about vanquishing their foe
October 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
lovely photo i took at the Meanjin wake of the Overland editors gloating about vanquishing their foe
Cuck Country Blues
Australia signs on for the American Century of Humiliation
substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I need to get big and strong like my hero, Smashing Machine
October 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I need to get big and strong like my hero, Smashing Machine
please don't tell me The Mastermind is skipping theatres in Perth, and will only be shown at Perth Festival, my least favourite place to see movies...
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
please don't tell me The Mastermind is skipping theatres in Perth, and will only be shown at Perth Festival, my least favourite place to see movies...
wrote about the national humiliation fetish for YNR. Check it out!
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
wrote about the national humiliation fetish for YNR. Check it out!
genuine question: if you're travelling interstate for a writer's festival, should that festival cover the cost of your transport to and from the airport? i kinda took it as a given.
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
genuine question: if you're travelling interstate for a writer's festival, should that festival cover the cost of your transport to and from the airport? i kinda took it as a given.