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Bendigo and Ballarat Incoming.
To round out another great year for our club we are opening two Chapters this December, the long overdue Bendigo and Ballarat. We’ve been planning on open many more central Victorian Chapters after our success in Castlemaine and these two towns are the obvious places to start…
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TGBC Ocsober Team 2017
This year to change things up a bit, instead of participating in Movember as a club like we usually do, we decided to put a team together for Ocsober. It’s a charity fundraiser where you promise to lay off the beers for a month. That, for our guys was always going to be a lot…
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Johnno - David Malouf (1975)
**A sprawling riverside elegy Full disclosure: I am a Queensland expatriate.** Like most expats abroad I exhibit the tell-tale signs: bad news from home is met with a contemptuous snort and accompanied by mutterings about a banana republic; and any good news or persons of note…
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Castlemaine Billy Cart Challenge
It started out in 1949 as The Apex Soap Box Derby. In 2017 it would return as the Castlemaine Billy Cart Challenge. When our goons in the Victorian town of Castlemaine got wind of the challenge, they got romanticising. Naturally, nearly everyone had great ideas straight off the…
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Goon Profile – Sam Stops
Name: Sam Stops **Chapter: I feel most at home at Hobart chapter. Who are you: I’m your average man in his late 30s. I have a beautiful wife who’s way out of my league and we own a home in South Hobart. We have a good sized back yard which is nice and flat for our Labrador cross…
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Point to Pinnacle
Point to Pinnacle On the 19th of November, well know goons Wash and Sam Stops Presedent of Hobart Chapter are tackling the self proclaimed “World’s Toughest Half Marathon”. It starts at sea level and over the 21.1 Km course ascends 1270m to the pinnacle of Kunanyi (Mt…
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The Camp of Frost Lake - Daniel McMahon
You’re hanging from a wire, attached to a dead eucalyptus tree, suspended over a freezing lake in alpine Victoria. Your zipline harness pulls your thighs up to your shoulders and your testicles up somewhere around your chin. Your breath is choking hot, because for some reason…
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Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski (1982)
Ham on Rye, a semi-autobiographical account of Charles Bukowski’s coming of age, begins with his earliest memory. Under a table staring at the legs of adults in Germany in 1922. It continues with his migration to Los Angeles. His difficult childhood living under an abusive father…
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Death of a River Guide - Richard Flanagan (1994)
Camp Book 2017
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut (1965)
"Those who write on Heaven’s walls should mold their shit in little balls. And those who read these lines of wit Should eat these little balls of shit." Kurt Vonnegut. A name that is almost onomatopoeic. The Gs, the Ks and the Vs gets stuck in your throat. You have to hock them…
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The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
'Science fiction' is a much maligned term. Hearing those two words coupled summons images of treckies squeezed offensively into orange skivvies and weathered paperbacks in bargain bins featuring wide chested blondes shooting giant insects with laser beams. But science fiction at…
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Goon Profile – Steve Bruce
Chapter: Melbourne City What’s your story? I discovered Tough Guy Book Club back in 2015. At the time, I was struggling with depression and anxiety and had cut off a lot of my friends, some who I'd known since Primary School. Part of getting out of my funk was to look for things…
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