Penny Flanagan
Penny Flanagan is a musician and writer. She is the co-writer of Fisk.
Opinion
Public transport
‘Don’t worry, I’m following the app’: My $93 Uber ride from hell
What happens when your Uber driver gets lost but still chooses to believe his app knows the way to your house better than you do?
- by Penny Flanagan
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Fitness
The sports lesson our kids aren’t getting: you don’t have to play to win
The message our children receive loud and clear is that sport is all about competition. It’s no wonder so many leave it behind.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Style
Whatever happened to dressing for dinner? Classless doesn’t mean unclassy
Sydney people are so uptight about the risk of being overdressed. It’s time to smarten up.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Move over selfie stick – I’m marketing the social-distancing stick
COVID-19 capitalism to the rescue: I’ve got a few ideas for some new products to take us into our pandemic future.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Social media
Removalists were more focused on shifting my Google review than shifting my stuff
The big day arrives. They park over my neighbour’s driveway, climb out like Teamsters and fling open the back doors. Two Stooges Removals have arrived.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Rubbish
Bin there, done that: confessions of a festive empty-bin hunter
These are desperate times. When the rubbish started piling up, laws of the land be damned, I started prowling for bins with room for my Christmas crap.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Home tech
I’ve already visited Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse and I don’t want to do it again
Lockdown 2021 offered a tasting plate version of the metaverse - give me reality any day.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Assume the brace position people, while I get controversial about meals on flights
Meals can wait, so masks stay on.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Lining up for the new normal? Have patience
Are you a homo impatientus? Does standing in a queue – any queue – feel like torture? Get ready for the post-COVID world.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Reality TV
‘Doing it for my kids’: The thing that consistently does my head in on The Voice
Why do contestants who are parents dress up their ambition with parenting virtue?
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
In the face of COVID, NSW has only one option: Go the full Ted Lasso
I recently employed the Lasso brand of crazy optimism and for about an hour or so I felt high as a kite.
- by Penny Flanagan
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