tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183346922024-03-24T04:46:01.921+11:00comicstripheroYes, my blog template is stuck in the dark ages.comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-13712370657237033792009-03-21T11:45:00.008+11:002009-03-21T12:09:29.309+11:00Sunday arvo walk in the neighbourhood<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvNx8uEn52GgAPaLE9JBaRIXDKJtMBja_0V6y_cLm7-7n-2qqim3HPl1eZeUjLAIcx7CCcFJPZbbD4XoM5o0LIuxIzq-Z7RNtX8n6Ew5FM98_CgEFSurqhiCI399uIaUNRepGTeQ/s1600-h/DSC01267.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvNx8uEn52GgAPaLE9JBaRIXDKJtMBja_0V6y_cLm7-7n-2qqim3HPl1eZeUjLAIcx7CCcFJPZbbD4XoM5o0LIuxIzq-Z7RNtX8n6Ew5FM98_CgEFSurqhiCI399uIaUNRepGTeQ/s400/DSC01267.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315440960032983810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2buLUNsszKTn3dSrJ42Tb2Fij6n6zKox-lJihK5CCnBJBnh8mMLuMImHK_KQSLKHHk9Syr8UVLokqGQ57ngzO3ROeiDmASuzcAcJzb0apHVVRCGGbBIPTtbEKkl0OZVD_kQdQng/s1600-h/DSC01264.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSew4_mbQno3g-WY2rhTTfGR47gm2V6lHXRWTsFgPpuj82uDaG3aDgneptRcvnyX3xZcrCXWm4uIvVzWT0Um1_xKW3whh2gESUp_JJfJ10sUWfnLLrDv2M01fFhyphenhyphenugP02LpuGcIQ/s400/DSC01245.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315437569648144626" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVeEQ5L-XSYpEio9qgpPbwIC7jzCt-oaLsH0C9p-J2gdKt8u5q7ObLgN_OpYL88943OmeMhgyNM9rLGtgCRETgKzMZLgzTNdsIskuejzxU9i21Pt_w_-jqcagwnpR8zCehbcEZw/s1600-h/DSC01244.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVeEQ5L-XSYpEio9qgpPbwIC7jzCt-oaLsH0C9p-J2gdKt8u5q7ObLgN_OpYL88943OmeMhgyNM9rLGtgCRETgKzMZLgzTNdsIskuejzxU9i21Pt_w_-jqcagwnpR8zCehbcEZw/s400/DSC01244.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315436834196236178" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdyTQjauDIsF7QNwlBz4zjmSQPtVHKi_y3yaSm6zTRLuiWUbhNjKtx-rtFlUZCERtJxt-USVlFV2DNCL28hyphenhyphenN1AvvIstSjDyG214w86bfOTAw3V81aGm9y9opcYtFtEgqE3eFqQw/s1600-h/DSC01241.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdyTQjauDIsF7QNwlBz4zjmSQPtVHKi_y3yaSm6zTRLuiWUbhNjKtx-rtFlUZCERtJxt-USVlFV2DNCL28hyphenhyphenN1AvvIstSjDyG214w86bfOTAw3V81aGm9y9opcYtFtEgqE3eFqQw/s400/DSC01241.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315436831183557986" /></a>Bike polo anyone?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlW1FsHlG5tt9zyYpbO73Suh8HRjVqUgecwd6VKPgB3X4g6JelZ3ZvlLUwFA_0H7PLtQz3UQ5m9NsKPt6G3gCFP3M-rA9hYT1gV3YoKJXgQqRbE5Mmm9qIcCd-hE__BEu0yzyyg/s1600-h/DSC01240.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlW1FsHlG5tt9zyYpbO73Suh8HRjVqUgecwd6VKPgB3X4g6JelZ3ZvlLUwFA_0H7PLtQz3UQ5m9NsKPt6G3gCFP3M-rA9hYT1gV3YoKJXgQqRbE5Mmm9qIcCd-hE__BEu0yzyyg/s400/DSC01240.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315436830633990770" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy2557t14qNP5dzLtSejHXz6omJpckUk77l3wA8FVXc81UqN6FVpukt01XjNu1fx0SnacW3yg9z2VSJkesj4Fwy1DVJtrAw6PIfqe1M-Z1hqdB_7EbMHp7Zlv3cCC-9QDu05RVAQ/s1600-h/DSC01237.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy2557t14qNP5dzLtSejHXz6omJpckUk77l3wA8FVXc81UqN6FVpukt01XjNu1fx0SnacW3yg9z2VSJkesj4Fwy1DVJtrAw6PIfqe1M-Z1hqdB_7EbMHp7Zlv3cCC-9QDu05RVAQ/s400/DSC01237.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315436826455598962" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLqzv-cRZe1qlzjoIvaLsjbJPOXvKdb7H6hAXIuWiN9OOOq6xUGHUJBhjhVa6-RnBIlDCnN4zH4Wt1T7H-5TJd86e-VTv17o2pOmOqrPDayLTSj5hgNwZeccuBKoT7h7Cx82EFig/s1600-h/DSC01231.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLqzv-cRZe1qlzjoIvaLsjbJPOXvKdb7H6hAXIuWiN9OOOq6xUGHUJBhjhVa6-RnBIlDCnN4zH4Wt1T7H-5TJd86e-VTv17o2pOmOqrPDayLTSj5hgNwZeccuBKoT7h7Cx82EFig/s400/DSC01231.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315436816265602642" /></a>Let's finish with an historical quiz. Put names to the faces.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgesjJuvE2KjZQhJ-hHg-FjRL3-zmgTheGlXXD3eeJZNtXdLVFToEbdj5gimqietJm4dufEfkPw-SRw4CZot3otXNbKHpvZ_SKCxTRIypBeL-ANfDRrtHlOsI5hN3CmhTaVtVFNgA/s1600-h/DSC01272.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgesjJuvE2KjZQhJ-hHg-FjRL3-zmgTheGlXXD3eeJZNtXdLVFToEbdj5gimqietJm4dufEfkPw-SRw4CZot3otXNbKHpvZ_SKCxTRIypBeL-ANfDRrtHlOsI5hN3CmhTaVtVFNgA/s400/DSC01272.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315441409503886322" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2bqcd0yBjsRXHyCXn780xVCitI6NqlwbLvurZGFSovDOaApMs35Bi7NXGRwtrrEmKSjvaGSJgAJLM6fv0hjbBe2NOrlEWcKlpjP3kR4M7z6ATObS4E5tH7rLp1OR3fipin_KrA/s1600-h/DSC01271.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2bqcd0yBjsRXHyCXn780xVCitI6NqlwbLvurZGFSovDOaApMs35Bi7NXGRwtrrEmKSjvaGSJgAJLM6fv0hjbBe2NOrlEWcKlpjP3kR4M7z6ATObS4E5tH7rLp1OR3fipin_KrA/s400/DSC01271.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315441409377070050" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHCPrLc-FgBQn2nK4pOU2x51-MVALi3xRu0iHzJ1Q3mMXxxmV27wSIwUGgeAUoRutN4o5SaQe-J-DBTrYcvs_Z50Wh2g5ZHsfFNWGajRTLWLZ2j6FIPgJRc8czgAjTUzxWmX_kkA/s1600-h/DSC01270.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHCPrLc-FgBQn2nK4pOU2x51-MVALi3xRu0iHzJ1Q3mMXxxmV27wSIwUGgeAUoRutN4o5SaQe-J-DBTrYcvs_Z50Wh2g5ZHsfFNWGajRTLWLZ2j6FIPgJRc8czgAjTUzxWmX_kkA/s400/DSC01270.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315441401000205618" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8aScqwGAg_rZ6MM39Wfh4Xe-rElyRyz-cemC-4Cz4-Zsk7fpzz1Do6tklca7xTax1oRmey2Cv8FSKaIpEz-9y2QzuCRA9dtwDAJn0gvBP7nh8TAPzLiAhtTUypt4IcelYF9sag/s1600-h/DSC01269.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 388px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8aScqwGAg_rZ6MM39Wfh4Xe-rElyRyz-cemC-4Cz4-Zsk7fpzz1Do6tklca7xTax1oRmey2Cv8FSKaIpEz-9y2QzuCRA9dtwDAJn0gvBP7nh8TAPzLiAhtTUypt4IcelYF9sag/s400/DSC01269.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315440974487176530" /></a>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-53376971978700781512009-02-25T13:17:00.002+11:002009-02-25T13:19:05.901+11:00Mogblogging like it's 2005...<div>LOL-Tobias has come out of semi-retirement....</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCUL_aWlL9Vk3ILIlTDLEOAcn-ubt7R4X1cYID_vsgVrULylBzgGyog-O_hyphenhyphenuSEMWpvHjkQBT-U8FRSpQOMKv-OLP-n3-N8kQENBKDnvgX98-VZ24F0DI8YoxyzhoeQqcxvTgBA/s1600-h/128795590167224126.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306553672233287986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCUL_aWlL9Vk3ILIlTDLEOAcn-ubt7R4X1cYID_vsgVrULylBzgGyog-O_hyphenhyphenuSEMWpvHjkQBT-U8FRSpQOMKv-OLP-n3-N8kQENBKDnvgX98-VZ24F0DI8YoxyzhoeQqcxvTgBA/s320/128795590167224126.jpg" border="0" /></a>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-23559656155218217882009-02-17T12:05:00.001+11:002009-02-17T12:07:12.646+11:00FactPeople who sit on hour-long teleconferences, breathing loudly into the receiver the whole time, so that everyone can hear their serial-killeresque heavy breathing = <em><span style="font-size:180%;">FOUL!!!</span></em>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-45979266719130963032009-02-16T11:54:00.003+11:002009-02-16T12:00:58.665+11:00Pointless rant #372 - freak weather pattern editionI saw people on the weekend wearing <strong>scarves</strong>.<br /><br />Honest to goodness, <em>scarves</em>.<br /><br />The minute the temperature drops below <strong>20 degrees</strong>, Sydney people <strong>freak</strong> and bust out the polar fleece and <strong>heavy coats</strong>. Despite the fact it's still <strong>95% humidity</strong>.<br /><br />Maybe they're adopting the jockey weight-loss regimen and they're trying to <strong>sweat</strong> themselves down to their racing weight.<br /><br />Buncha <strong>clowns</strong>, I tells ya.comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-79537647249985260652009-02-10T10:55:00.003+11:002009-02-10T10:56:51.574+11:00Pretty much sums up my reaction to seeing Matthew Newton in the nude on Underbelly last night<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4aFHBnzcl68XsNK7Wlr5hEPZrEdXr2liezvtAfrjRH5UsyO7s-KD0G9DwaqyiY3zuirH7iJPG60cv7dDGiWSxsdsAyCSON_MelDlVgBKxJOPwfy4nQEZhHpFT84zhSbwgYG1WfQ/s1600-h/lookingat.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300950827853427474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 218px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4aFHBnzcl68XsNK7Wlr5hEPZrEdXr2liezvtAfrjRH5UsyO7s-KD0G9DwaqyiY3zuirH7iJPG60cv7dDGiWSxsdsAyCSON_MelDlVgBKxJOPwfy4nQEZhHpFT84zhSbwgYG1WfQ/s320/lookingat.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-14483181048485329232009-02-06T13:33:00.003+11:002009-02-06T13:46:29.774+11:00The hard questions. Asked here.Is it <strong>wrong </strong>of me to ignore an email from a colleague, just because she spelled my first name <strong>incorrectly</strong>?<br /><br />And I don't just mean a <strong>typo</strong>. I mean wrong by about 50% of the total letters in my first name (which, before you ask, is definitely <strong>not hard</strong> to spell).<br /><br />The error comes despite having worked together for <strong>12 months</strong>, and despite the fact she would have had to have <strong>entered my name</strong> in when entering my email address.<br /><br />Well anyway, that <strong>urgent email</strong> is going to sit there for a while. At least for as long as it takes me to finish this post...<br /><br />Which, in a <strong>seamless</strong> segue, is something I was originally going to put on twitter. But I realised that I have been foregoing blogging in favour of the odd random <strong>tweet</strong>.<br /><br />In particular I'm quite happy with the developing thread of <strong>tweets</strong> on the new, 18 year-old admin assistant here at work that manages to insert a <strong>reference </strong>to McDonalds into just about <strong>every</strong> conversation.<br /><br />For example, when I complained of a <strong>stomach ache</strong>, I was usefully informed that <strong>cheeseburgers</strong> are a surefire cure for stomach ache. When we experienced a blackout, I was urged to <strong>race </strong>down to McDonalds as they would most certainly be throwing out a whole load of burgers.<br /><br />Both of these were absolutely <em>ripping</em> suggestions for a <strong>vegetarian</strong> such as myself (mmmm, unrefrigerated processed meats - <strong>delightful!</strong>)<br /><br /><em>Totally</em> worth signing up to <strong>twitter</strong> and following me just for that.comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-49317382041047398502009-02-04T08:22:00.003+11:002009-02-04T08:38:01.126+11:00A guy walks into a cafe...<blockquote>"We'll have two herbal teas, bacon and eggs with toast, and scrambled eggs with a side of smoked salmon and mushrooms.<br /><br />Oh, and we have to be at an appointment in <strong>10 minutes</strong>, so<br />you'd better get onto that <strong>straight</strong> away."<br /></blockquote><br />Sometimes I <strong>wonder</strong> what it would be like to go around expecting that the world will bend to your will and expectations, no matter how <strong>unreasonable</strong>.<br /><br />It's like those people on the roads who decide that they want to turn left, even if they are in the right-hand lane of a 3-lane highway. Instead of <strong>conceding</strong> that they've missed the turn and finding somewhere <strong>safe </strong>to turn around, they just stop dead in the right-hand lane with their left-hand indicator on, <strong>waiting </strong>for a gap in the traffic, with not a care in the world for the line of 50 cars <strong>banked up</strong> behind them.<br /><br />Or the women who force those <strong>double-wide prams</strong> down narrow, inner-city streets (taking out many a passer-by's <strong>ankles </strong>on the way) and then act <strong>surprised</strong> when they don't fit into the teeny-tiny cafes, already <strong>crammed</strong> full of people and chairs.<br /><br />It's a <strong>scaled-down</strong> version of the blokes who driver Hummers around the laneways of Newtown - <em>Newsflash!</em> The <strong>built environment</strong> will not magically morph itself to adapt to your choices!<br /><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><br />Hmmm, maybe next time I go to the cafe I should ask for a <strong>decaf</strong>...comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-29516077524601340022009-01-15T08:44:00.003+11:002009-01-15T08:48:27.018+11:00I hope you are more original with your policies...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pOSu-i3JmIwnvQyVrBlO4xxTC4r9oj4THR_9T-ThpLUN-5CBFumX629YvjHhBULL6LHaNmeY0KBa3TlwVRSlTEiWr_j_1W12tCFY7kleYv1wj39zjMT4uLO8n9SHhJ0Dlhfn4A/s1600-h/Obama1~Barack-Obama-Yes-We-Can-Posters.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291268612930198114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pOSu-i3JmIwnvQyVrBlO4xxTC4r9oj4THR_9T-ThpLUN-5CBFumX629YvjHhBULL6LHaNmeY0KBa3TlwVRSlTEiWr_j_1W12tCFY7kleYv1wj39zjMT4uLO8n9SHhJ0Dlhfn4A/s320/Obama1~Barack-Obama-Yes-We-Can-Posters.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Hang on, hang <em>on</em>.<br /><br />Haven't I seen that somewhere <strong>before?</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbAyPUzNVattJdTF09WrL0948BgpsRA8kV2mgP1FUnWKoqNtwMzDwy7xxpErRXmne52kUvwa8A0zNWa8aHi4ktSp5Woj_qyipDj9aoRPBdYpcnH-ByAk3v52YokTPKKhsIDTsnjw/s1600-h/bob.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291268774545118850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 257px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbAyPUzNVattJdTF09WrL0948BgpsRA8kV2mgP1FUnWKoqNtwMzDwy7xxpErRXmne52kUvwa8A0zNWa8aHi4ktSp5Woj_qyipDj9aoRPBdYpcnH-ByAk3v52YokTPKKhsIDTsnjw/s320/bob.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Obama! You <strong>dastardly</strong> thief!<br /><br />I hope Bob and his gang of anthropomorphised work-vehicles and equipment <strong>sue</strong> his presidential pants off!comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-6882522474655652002009-01-13T12:29:00.005+11:002009-01-13T12:40:36.966+11:00Drama! Absurdity! The Occult! Welcome to 21st century communications policy<strike>I hate to make a point with a sledgehammer, but</strike> Has anyone seen that <strong>play</strong> <strike>The ISP-Level Filter Trial</strike> <em>The Crucible</em>?<br /><br />Well, according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_crucible">Wiki</a>, the play begins with <strong>revelations</strong> that <strike>most Australians</strike> some village girls may have <strong>dabbled</strong> in a bit of <strike>teh un-legal online activities</strike> witchcraft.<br /><br />These were apparently <strong>enabled</strong> by <strike>off-shore hosted servers</strike> Tituba, one of the village family’s slaves, from Barbados.<br /><br /><strike>Stephen Conroy</strike> Reverend John Hale is summoned to look into the incident. He is an <strong>expert</strong> in <strike>nothing</strike> occultist phenomena and is eager to put into practice <strike>a completely disproportionate response </strike>his acquired learning.<br /><br />He questions the other village girls, who, in an <strong>attempt</strong> to avoid being deemed a <strike>pr0n-watcher</strike> <strong>witch</strong>, profess a <strike>black</strike>list of <strike>websites</strike> people they’ve seen with <strike>bit-torrent software</strike> the <strong>Devil</strong>.<br /><br />The play then tells of a descent into <strong>hysteria</strong> and <strong>injustice</strong> as <strike>Conroy</strike> the villagers <strong>accuse</strong><strike>s everyone else</strike> others in an attempt to save <strike>his reputation</strike> themselves. Anyone who <strong>dissents </strong>against the <strong>irrational</strong> and deeply <strong>flawed</strong> <strike>ISP-level filtering</strike> witchcraft trials are labelled <strike>perverts</strike> witches, thus <strong>undermining</strong> any rational criticism of the trials.<br /><br />As <strike>the bureaucrats</strike> Danforth says in <strike>Senate Estimates</strike> Act III, “a<strike>n ISP</strike> person is either <strong>with</strong> this <strike>filtering trial</strike> court or he <strong>must </strong>be counted <strike>as having something to hide</strike> against it.”<br /><br />The <strike>filtering</strike><strong>witch</strong> trials are the ultimate expression of <strike>knee-jerk, politically driven madness</strike> i<strong>ntolerance</strong> (and <strike>the resulting cut in broadband speeds</strike> <strong>hanging witches</strong> is the ultimate <strike>irony, coming from the Broadband Minister</strike> means of restoring the community's <strong>purity</strong>); the trials brand all <strike>free speech advocates</strike> <strong>social deviants</strong> with the taint of <strike>child-pr0n</strike> devil-worship and thus necessitate their <strong>elimination</strong> from the <strike>debate</strike> community.<br /><br /><strong>Hysteria</strong> supplants logic and enables <strike>Conroy</strike> people to believe that <strike>everyday Australians</strike>their neighbours, whom they have always considered <strong>upstanding</strong> people, are committing absurd and unbelievable <strike>online</strike> crimes — communing with the <strike>file sharers</strike><strong>devil</strong>, killing babies, and so on.<br /><br />As we all know, <strike>The ISP-Level Filter Trial</strike> <em>The Crucible</em> is symbolic of <strike>the religious right’s</strike> 1950s American <strong>paranoia</strong> about <strike>moral decay</strike> <strong>communism </strong>and illustrates narrow-mindedness, excessive zeal and <strong>disregard</strong> for the individual that characterised the government’s effort to <strike>secure Stephen Fielding’s support in the Senate</strike> stamp out a perceived <strong>social ill</strong>.<br /><br />Should be coming to a <strike>desktop</strike> theatre near you <strong>shortly!</strong><br /><br /><strike>You won't be able to</strike> Don't miss it!comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-64961276258035283762009-01-10T20:56:00.002+11:002009-01-10T21:13:18.651+11:00Have you heard of the youtube?*<div>I'm sure by now everyone's typed "Single ladies" into <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">youtube</span> and been blown away by random people recreating, with varying degrees of success, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">lip-smacking</span> choreography in Beyonce's film clip.</div><div><br /></div><div>If not, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">for shame! </span>And get thee <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">clicky-clicky</span> on <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-VJFWH8vxcg">this</a>, <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=y_0JiIIsWd0">this </a>and <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=7rknRJVdpOo">this</a>, stat!</div><div><br /></div><div>But to add that, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">check out</span> this clip of 'j-setting', dubbed over with Unk's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Walk it Out </span>(said to be Beyonce's inspiration):</div><div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KU3N5c2Kxnw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KU3N5c2Kxnw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As well as being 100% youtubey goodness, it also <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">solves</span> a long-running mystery for me - just where did Jane Turner get the inspiration for Kath Day-Knight's moves!</div><div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eTSL7-vMqu0&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eTSL7-vMqu0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">*Title taken from real life question asked of me about a year ago, by someone who pretends to know about computers. Oh the hilarity!</span></div>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-4142789067087033872009-01-02T16:41:00.004+11:002009-01-02T16:57:27.309+11:00Je ne regrette rienSo it's roughly a year since we upped sticks and moved back to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Sydney</span>.<div><br /></div><div>I could probably deliberate for a few <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">hours</span> on the costs and rewards, the things (and people) missed and the (very) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">hard-won </span>gains, the lost opportunities and the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">surprise</span> windfalls.</div><div><br /></div><div>But it really all comes down to one <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">simple</span> fact.</div><div><br /></div><div>Right now, at this very minute, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">summernats</span> is on, and I'm <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">not</span> in Canberra.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the French would say, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">w00t!</span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXesD9FUiQneoqVNZ1o_90FzfP-mcRt2Nf50J2TC0cAW22MD3w3gwyXvEuUeGsaW7Cu6HHSpuZ8FM-FbxcT1xsv4fjzN7w-Pk-xvPWWStM9ugCQWy471Q_BZYN0-ng53tcREqp8g/s1600-h/cruising.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXesD9FUiQneoqVNZ1o_90FzfP-mcRt2Nf50J2TC0cAW22MD3w3gwyXvEuUeGsaW7Cu6HHSpuZ8FM-FbxcT1xsv4fjzN7w-Pk-xvPWWStM9ugCQWy471Q_BZYN0-ng53tcREqp8g/s320/cruising.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286571128500225442" /></a>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-72389807082936080302008-12-24T09:05:00.002+11:002008-12-24T09:14:16.814+11:00Bloody hippies!<a href="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/protect-the-planet-from-gays-pope-says/1394535.aspx">Protect the planet from gays, Pope says</a><br /><blockquote><p><em>Saving humanity from homosexuality and transsexuality is as important as saving rainforests, Pope Benedict XVI says.</em></p><p><em>[...]</em></p><p><em>Gender theory, which explores sexual orientation and gender identity, could potentially lead to the ''self-destruction'' of the human race by blurring the lines between men and women.</em> </p></blockquote><br />Great! So now, in addition to the <strong>homophobes </strong>hurling abuse at me from their <strong>V8 utes</strong>, I also have to watch out for the <strong>hippies</strong>, hurling energy efficient light-globes at me from their <strike>death squads</strike> <strong>Priuses</strong>.comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-71114178728440716722008-12-23T16:21:00.002+11:002008-12-23T16:34:03.506+11:00Saw this in the freezer section of woolies t'other day...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix1ncWJVqscsurl-vZL2J4sHM08CWO5Htp7X8SfifVlyTndvzQjSNHeGBg-ifGeuduq3_pG-GIAesUESLKt7yme6qztYMNnFnFr9nBYsC_J_weiHw1Zdnsd1SRBhEqKWxavaJJ8g/s1600-h/BM.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282851970088297458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix1ncWJVqscsurl-vZL2J4sHM08CWO5Htp7X8SfifVlyTndvzQjSNHeGBg-ifGeuduq3_pG-GIAesUESLKt7yme6qztYMNnFnFr9nBYsC_J_weiHw1Zdnsd1SRBhEqKWxavaJJ8g/s320/BM.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I <strong>honestly</strong> can't decide whether:<br /><ol><li>This is a <strong>practical joke</strong> gone <strike>wrong</strike> awesomely right. Ie, <strong>junior</strong> marketing type comes up with this product name as a joke, expecting it to be <strong>ruled out</strong> somewhere up the hierarchy or at least in focus-groups. But it didn't, and now it's in stores <strong>everywhere</strong>; OR</li><li>This actually tested well in focus groups and <strong>no one</strong> else shares my cerebral brand of humour.</li></ol>Having immersed myself recently in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_men">Mad Men</a>, I also can't rid myself of the image of <strong>Don Draper</strong>, dressed immaculately, holding a glass of whiskey and whistfully smoking a <strong>cigarette </strong>(or four), delivering a meaningful sermon on how 'Breast Munchies' will tap the <strong>unfulfilled</strong> desires of housewives across 1960s <strong>America</strong>.<br /><br />So in conclusion, <em><strong>*massive snigger*!!!</strong></em>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-3582411521646503102008-12-21T19:56:00.002+11:002008-12-21T20:09:07.295+11:00Because I always appreciate getting new music tips from other people...December playlist:<div><br /></div><div>(Each track is also from an album well worth your time in exploring)</div><div><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Never Miss a Beat</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Kaiser Chiefs</span> (Off With Their Heads)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Black Kids</span> (Partie Traumatic)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">You Wouldn't Like Me</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Tegan and Sara</span> (So Jealous)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Hit the Heartbreaks</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Black Kids </span>(Partie Traumatic)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Walking on a Dream</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Empire of the Sun</span> (Walking on a Dream)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Midnight Coward</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Stars</span> (In Our Bedroom After the War)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Revelry </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Kings Of Leon</span> (Only By the Night)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Notion</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Kings of Leon</span> (Only By the Night)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Human</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">he Killers</span> (Day & Age)</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Sweet Disposition</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Temper Trap</span> (Sweet Disposition - single)</li></ol><div>That last one is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">astonishingly</span> good, acktchelly.<br /></div></div>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-59174805909313996772008-12-17T15:08:00.008+11:002008-12-17T15:48:48.908+11:00Excusable? Or just plain embarrassing?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc30hsTIHa61X0E8mmL7mYeYB2NxjjChjBOAuvNHxSeajA2MxOxoSwSWG0Wfw69wse860ooGEQ94iCD7uNvb0ou70Xc5eJWJqHRiLckhqWz9HpyxF7pi6tRhWitFKNk9GxqNJ5cg/s1600-h/shhh-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280606621090249314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 244px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc30hsTIHa61X0E8mmL7mYeYB2NxjjChjBOAuvNHxSeajA2MxOxoSwSWG0Wfw69wse860ooGEQ94iCD7uNvb0ou70Xc5eJWJqHRiLckhqWz9HpyxF7pi6tRhWitFKNk9GxqNJ5cg/s320/shhh-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>I think I’ve turned into an <strong>89 year-old woman</strong>. </div><br /><div></div><div>Last week I told some kids to <strong>stop talking</strong> in a movie.<br /><br />Well, not so much ‘told’, but asked them. “Do you guys want to <strong>shut up</strong>?! Seriously!”<br /><br />As the <strong>LovelyWife</strong> notes, there’s a certain <strong>passive aggressive</strong> quality to my attempts to force my own personal standards of everyday common <strong>decency</strong> on complete strangers.<br /><br />We used to live across the road from a child-care centre which, as you’d expect, was adequately <strong>fenced</strong>. After about 3 months of silent, repressed rage, I could no longer <strong>tolerate</strong> the daily, after-hours visits by some neighbourhood kids with their two <strong>large </strong>dogs.<br /><br />These dogs, instead of being responsibly exercised in a public park, would be allowed to run and bark and <strong>crap</strong> freely in the child-care centre’s fenced-off play area. For hours. Their owners using the <strong>enclosed </strong>nature of the play area as a substitute for active supervision and interaction with their <strong>dogs</strong>.<br /><br />A more <strong>confident</strong> person would have confronted these rather meek looking 13 year-olds and their ageing labradors with something like “you shouldn’t be doing that. There’s a park around the corner.” (Or, perhaps, said <strong>nothing</strong> at all. I’ve lost track of what is acceptable these days).<br /><br />My <strong>attempt </strong>was something more like “excuse me, I want you to think about what happens when your dogs use the kids’ play area as a toilet, and then the <strong>kids</strong> come and play in the play area, and their hands touch the dogs' <strong>poo</strong>.”<br /><br /><em>Brilliant, </em>n'est pas?<br /><br />Anyway, I still maintain that in both the <strong>dog incident</strong> and the <strong>movie scenario</strong>, my emergency interventions were <strong>justified</strong>.<br /><br />The movie in question was the unnecessarily complex Quantum of Solace – I’d invested several hours and the not inconsiderable ticket price for the privilege of being utterly confused by:<br /></div><blockquote>a) the first <strong>45 minutes</strong> of storyline;<br />b) the whole <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Mathis#Ren.C3.A9_Mathis">Mathis</a> denouement (even <strong>Wiki </strong>doesn’t know if his duplicity was a set-up, or if he was a triple-agent); and<br />c) Alicia Keys’ <strong>upper register</strong><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><div>However, it seemed to me that for these kids’ parents, the <strong>cinema</strong> was serving the same purpose as the <strong>child-care centre’s</strong> fenced-off play-area was serving for the <strong>dog-owners</strong> – a convenient, enclosed space in which to park their <strong>responsibilities</strong> whilst they engaged in some other activity.<br /><br />There was no way these 10 year-old boys were going to be interested in the full <strong>17 hours</strong> of the movie and it was hence <strong>unsurprising</strong> that they resorted to what can only be described as ‘hi-jinks’ up and down the <strong>aisles</strong>.<br /><br />My ever-so-slightly <strong>assertive</strong> request that they be quiet was triggered when they chose the aisle right in front of us to discuss whatever it is kids discuss in cinemas when they are bored by movies pitched way higher than their age group. </div><div><br />It was seriously <strong>impeding</strong> my ability to keep up with the secret-organisation-holds-stealthy-conference-regarding-purchase-of-pipeline-during-<em>Tosca</em> scene.<br /><br />I’m most <strong>worried</strong>, however, by the fact that last night I ‘shh’-ed some <strong>women</strong> sitting next to me at the Kylie concert.<br /><br />I knew they were trouble when they came up the <strong>aisle</strong> already carrying their shoes. Isn’t that something reserved for <strong>5.30pm</strong> on Melbourne Cup day?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg17xMlMJ9YeTH8YpNbMBn5ATY7agR1Ra9mveqqzcRBYqTS0WWhXQ2dmIOu2MI9h6WfvGRL3KwhxmIRmeQKK4AKkVAE6hWMVp37Q_VkJFajMZhFqPbM2h9GibIhWr7OHut-7-kdSQ/s1600-h/shoes.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280612199662707474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 206px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg17xMlMJ9YeTH8YpNbMBn5ATY7agR1Ra9mveqqzcRBYqTS0WWhXQ2dmIOu2MI9h6WfvGRL3KwhxmIRmeQKK4AKkVAE6hWMVp37Q_VkJFajMZhFqPbM2h9GibIhWr7OHut-7-kdSQ/s320/shoes.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3KhPeFHuKEq7N9cD_27l0yDE7ID1lPpU8JV0RM2xGfGFqo6kl9lZz0rmHPsoxkS9vGUNh7bk0lViuZlZVL27NiYLOojRhxJNwwisaj-S5fqJwu8LM8yTbtvdxicHtqxRrgQgNEg/s1600-h/cup.JPG"></a><br /><br />Or is it now <strong>acceptable</strong> to walk out your front door with bare feet and <strong>shoes</strong> in your hands?<br /><br />(There’s a whole other post there about choosing footwear that’s so <strong>useless</strong> you end up carrying it, compromising the <strong>utility</strong> of your hands <em>and</em> feet).<br /><br />But perhaps I shouldn’t say that I ‘shh’-ed them – I don’t think I was that <strong>assertive</strong>.<br /><br />It was more a case of me explaining to them that their<strong> incredibly</strong> loud, long conversation regarding how they were going to <strong>emotionally blackmail</strong> their boyfriends into proposing (well, that’s what I <em>imagine</em> the conversation to be about), was getting “a bit <strong>distracting</strong> for all the people sitting around you.”<br /><br />But <strong>srsly</strong>! Who pays $100 to go to a Kylie concert, and then sits there <strong>talking</strong> through the whole first half?! I just <strong>don’t</strong> understand. It wasn’t even a case of the <strong>occasional </strong>comment here or there, in between songs or even in the instrumental <strong>interludes</strong> between scenes.<br /><br />These women were <strong>shouting</strong> their conversation just to hear themselves over the performance. And I needed <strong>all </strong>my concentration to understand Kylie’s revolutionary cross-cultural interpretation of Barry Manilow classics.<br /><br />I feel <strong>dismayed</strong>.<br /><br />But I'm not sure whether that's because it feels like no one gives a <strong>rats</strong> about how their behaviour impacts on <strong>others</strong>, or if it's because I'm a 'shh'-er.<br /><br />*insert ennui here*comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-33565382340913309612008-12-12T15:00:00.003+11:002008-12-12T15:03:24.227+11:00Free IQ test!You know what always makes me feel like an <strong>idiot</strong>?<br /><br />When I remember that, way back in its first season, I used to <strong>anxiously</strong> hang out for each new episode of <em>Lost</em>, fully expecting that all the <strong>questions</strong> would be answered and all <strong>mysteries</strong> solved.<br /><br />Genius.<br /><br />What they are up to now, season 53? And they haven't even finished setting up <strong>new </strong>mysteries, let alone getting around to <strong>solving</strong> any of them.comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-66090962855445671922008-11-18T14:07:00.004+11:002008-11-18T14:14:59.499+11:00Newsflash! This is not news!Have you seen the <strong>headlines</strong> this week?<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/16/2420891.htm"><em>Bush-Rudd handshake shakey<br /></em></a><em><br /></em><a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24655438-661,00.html"><em>Bush on handshake: "I don't understand the fuss. Kevin smells and has girl germs. Everyone knows this. Why would I want to shake his hand for longer than necessary?"<br /></em></a><em><br /></em><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/is-this-an-angry-president-with-g19-on-his-mind-20081115-67pi.html"><em>International Diplomatic Crisis! Cretinous creationist with the attention-span of a tea-spoon gets a bit distracted after shaking hands with 20 uppity world leaders. Ennui mistaken for informed opinion of Kevin Rudd! War imminent!</em></a><br /><br /></div><div align="left">I’m sorry, but do we <strong>really</strong> care?<br /><br />No one really cared what Bush 'thought' at the <strong>best</strong> of times.<br /><br />And with only a couple of months before he slips the keys to the White House under the mat and <strong>slinks</strong> off into history, I think the real story is, could this <em>be</em> any more irrelevant?</div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgXj96PT1bzJ9lBM6ovE9fCsmz9MhdC2Fx1_74rSKfknmhtchqPASjaH1f248ppfoLoCNRR_mbzKk0bviMFnhz_4NS_llOiKv_D6OEkCR1uXD0Emmx9GaE41alYqzzEmiw5p-G4A/s1600-h/bush.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269830514747053026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgXj96PT1bzJ9lBM6ovE9fCsmz9MhdC2Fx1_74rSKfknmhtchqPASjaH1f248ppfoLoCNRR_mbzKk0bviMFnhz_4NS_llOiKv_D6OEkCR1uXD0Emmx9GaE41alYqzzEmiw5p-G4A/s320/bush.jpg" border="0" /></a>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-48991260128867298592008-11-10T08:52:00.002+11:002008-11-10T08:56:52.814+11:00Hot, crowded and conflicted - must be the Newtown Festival!<blockquote><p><em>Yesterday, as the consumer palaces of the inner west echoed emptily, the free community festival of Newtown celebrated its 30th anniversary with record crowds and booming business.</em></p><p><em>Or anti-business, as the festival's director, Sue Andersen, put it. "The reason it's so unique and popular is, firstly, that it's free, but secondly, because it's not about consumer brands. One year we had a stall for [a large homewares concern], and people shunned it, like there was a big 'boo' over it. We realised it was a big mistake, and have never had a major brand since."</em></p></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Full article </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/freebie-festival-a-winner/2008/11/09/1226165386034.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span><br /><br />Well, a couple of <strong>observations</strong>, Sue Anderson:<br /><ul><li>My bottle of (tap) water was <strong>confiscated</strong> at the gate because “water is sold on-site. You can’t bring in any food or drink.” </li><li>Someone forgot to tell Sue Anderson that <strong>Fitness First</strong>, whose minions were wandering around spruiking their new Newtown venue, is a major consumer brand. </li></ul><p>Apart from that, <strong>hooray</strong> for counterfeit Mighty Boosh t-shirts, fisherman’s pants and those teeny little <strong>pancake</strong> thingies. </p><p>Festivals, hurrah!</p>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-32634800318956282762008-11-03T08:27:00.007+11:002008-11-03T08:46:53.625+11:00Australian Idol: les escargots ont interdit<div>My <strong>top five</strong> observations from attending last night’s filming of the <em>Australian Idol</em> Top Five: </div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIcjTV1hQ0jdfGkXd4SVeM8ByAPFOjYt_VLIf8WhcQKs8HvqgrVZWOLEoD54CI8otKp3ZPT6dG0hmX4KntqeHvxB-0w41v_0kRqtJX-nVyUeP0e0odSGr8l6v0tyIBKxuYhiedQ/s1600-h/AI+snail.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264176793482911938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIcjTV1hQ0jdfGkXd4SVeM8ByAPFOjYt_VLIf8WhcQKs8HvqgrVZWOLEoD54CI8otKp3ZPT6dG0hmX4KntqeHvxB-0w41v_0kRqtJX-nVyUeP0e0odSGr8l6v0tyIBKxuYhiedQ/s320/AI+snail.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><ol><li>If there are 3 minutes and 40 seconds for each <strong>ad break</strong>, and allowing for 6 ad breaks, that means that <strong>Andrew G</strong> spent a cumulative 22 minutes fluffing and smoothing his fringe. Whilst other <strong>presenters/judges</strong> would spend the commercial breaks having a drink, chatting to the <strong>audience</strong> or having their <strong>make-up</strong> retouched, each and every spare second of Andrew G’s time was spent with the hair stylist. Why don’t they just save themselves the trouble and get him some <strong>lego hair</strong>.<br /></li><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxwvHc9mfPlaKlmz_WRz_G99vQfv1ZKe1jaEGthvssa4MBaxAoADPB3QCIX935-zk4HhQHEIibvo0Ytiv1vYbZ76dBhjLsEYSJngp_Q6faDJQJSfAQ9wzVmy06JK2aEwG_WLBnDg/s1600-h/lego.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264175836422011410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 108px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 96px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxwvHc9mfPlaKlmz_WRz_G99vQfv1ZKe1jaEGthvssa4MBaxAoADPB3QCIX935-zk4HhQHEIibvo0Ytiv1vYbZ76dBhjLsEYSJngp_Q6faDJQJSfAQ9wzVmy06JK2aEwG_WLBnDg/s320/lego.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><li>I don’t understand how they make such a <strong>polished</strong> looking program from the big shemozzle that takes place in the studio during filming. It's like a 12-year old's birthday's party in someone's garage. Thanks goodness for unidirectional <strong>microphones</strong> I guess.<br /></li><br /><li>Everything in the studio is a lot <strong>smaller</strong> than it appears on TV (except <strong>Kyle</strong>). We were sitting in the third-last row of seats, but I reckon I could still have hit <strong>Luke Dickens</strong> fair in the face with an <strong>anvil</strong>, if I so chose.<br /></li><br /><li>Each of <strong>Andrew G</strong> and <strong>James Mathison</strong> had siblings in the audience last night. Not that this was announced. It was just <strong>rather obvious</strong>. Andrew G’s sister was pretty much Andrew G with <strike>longer</strike> bouncier hair and a <strong>dress</strong>. I only worked out that the bloke in the next aisle was <strong>not </strong>James Mathison, and was, in fact, his brother, when James Mathison walked out on stage in different clothes. It was <strong>freaky</strong>, people.<br /></li><br /><li>We dropped a friend home to <strong>Coogee</strong> at the end of the evening and drove past the Coogee Bay Hotel. The place was <strike>faecal</strike> packed. Go figure. </li></ol><div></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyqXD43_WLYqWnbv1fm7Mdlhyphenhyphen-4wPAQIMSPwXF9EAmpr7egjP5TaDg-9ait1xlCNNRkmTZcPsclHXU8pe7MbGIGnrWBc-8ndoK-HbIdlh2z2OXFntqQSWoMkXU7BuiiQioxGq6dw/s1600-h/AI+crew+only.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264176664975741122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyqXD43_WLYqWnbv1fm7Mdlhyphenhyphen-4wPAQIMSPwXF9EAmpr7egjP5TaDg-9ait1xlCNNRkmTZcPsclHXU8pe7MbGIGnrWBc-8ndoK-HbIdlh2z2OXFntqQSWoMkXU7BuiiQioxGq6dw/s320/AI+crew+only.jpg" border="0" /></a>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-85713159139427533692008-10-30T08:37:00.002+11:002008-10-30T08:48:12.434+11:00All poo puns intendedSrsly, I do <strong>not</strong> want to read another word about the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/faeces-in-gelato-family-still-stunned/2008/10/29/1224956136438.html">poolato incident </a>at the Coogee Bay Hotel!<br /><br />Everywhere I turn, there's <strong>yet another</strong> pointless 'update' - <strong>yet another</strong> quote from the 'victims' about how 'disgusted' they are.<br /><br />Really?<br /><br />You ate poo and you were <strong>disgusted</strong>? No!<br /><br />People,<em> this is not news!</em><br /><em></em><br />I swear, we'll <strong>still</strong> be seeing 'updates' of this story next January.<br /><div align="left"><blockquote><em>In this month's bumper holiday edition of <strong>Women's Weekly</strong> - Belinda Neal's sensational new shaping underwear! Super-fun holiday knit patterns! Poo-eater Jessica Whyte's fail-safe teeth whitening revolution: "turn that brown frown upside down!"</em></blockquote></div><em></em><br /><em></em>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-66581140380582926572008-10-22T13:11:00.001+11:002008-10-22T13:14:43.577+11:00A haikuWooden <a href="http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24528219-5016681,00.html">Meares</a> replaced<br />with Bonds girl <a href="http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24493583-5016681,00.html">Murdoch</a>, is change<br />we can believe incomicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-56733561814349244322008-10-21T08:53:00.003+11:002008-10-21T09:00:50.388+11:00Fleeting thought for the dayIf the new <strong>Baz Luhrmann</strong> <strike>self-congratulatory orgy of narcissistic jingoism</strike> flick <em>Australia</em> will cost <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24460944-16947,00.html?from=public_rss">$130 million</a>, and the <a href="http://www.ffc.gov.au/producer_offset/">new tax rebate </a>offers producers <strong>40%</strong> 'cash back guarantee', doesn't that mean the <strong>tax-payer</strong> is into this film for <strong>52 million big ones</strong>?<br /><br />That's an <a href="http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/abc_crucifies_religious_reporter_over_outburst">awful lot of episodes </a>of the <em>Religion Report</em>, or the <em>Media Report</em>, or the <em>Sports Factor</em>...comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-3837233369970102902008-10-20T11:02:00.003+11:002008-10-20T11:11:18.333+11:00Pointless nit-picking - perfect for Monday morning<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVXt37Y3URZ5rsgeM5UEVdrDO5FLrxonw_Poqk_770HLPfVyrWeNBWAPZhVXlG0Qm-P3dAF6UfijsDQR6ZgobJdi42INHRbvhPuyEby_IjJopFJjbx5AS56ftrq5_KhB8BPZpsxg/s1600-h/7.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259019722926976274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVXt37Y3URZ5rsgeM5UEVdrDO5FLrxonw_Poqk_770HLPfVyrWeNBWAPZhVXlG0Qm-P3dAF6UfijsDQR6ZgobJdi42INHRbvhPuyEby_IjJopFJjbx5AS56ftrq5_KhB8BPZpsxg/s320/7.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">From today's online edition of <em><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/industrysectors/media/">the Australian</a></em>.</span> </div><br />Get with the <strong>program</strong>!<br /><br />That <strong>logo</strong> was being used was when <strong>Qintex</strong> was solvent, <strong>Christopher Skase</strong> was breathing independently, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Country_Practice"><em>A Country Practice</em> </a>was in production and <strong>Stan Grant</strong> was hosting <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Life_(TV_program)">Real Life</a></em>!comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-51037446297085491912008-10-17T12:57:00.005+11:002008-10-17T13:04:01.145+11:00fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled againThe Sarah Palin <a href="http://politsk.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah_13.html">baby name generator</a>.<br /><br />The Sarah Palin <a href="http://interviewpalin.com/">answer generator</a>.<br /><br />The Sarah Palin <a href="http://palinquotes.sillycloud.com/">quote generator</a>.<br /><br /><br />Tina Fey.<br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/48f7ee81880503cc/4741e3c5156499a7/a33e164e/-cpid/9b352bc621baa7ed" id="W4727a250e66f972348f7ee81880503cc" width="384" height="283"><param name="movie" value="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/48f7ee81880503cc/4741e3c5156499a7/a33e164e/-cpid/9b352bc621baa7ed" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /></object><br /><br />Tina Fey.<br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/48f7ee9ff598876a/4741e3c5156499a7/664519f7/-cpid/99c40a5820955d91" id="W4727a250e66f972348f7ee9ff598876a" width="384" height="283"><param name="movie" value="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/48f7ee9ff598876a/4741e3c5156499a7/664519f7/-cpid/99c40a5820955d91" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /></object><br /><br />Tina Fey.<br /><object type='application/x-shockwave-flash' data='http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/48cd3b64ddb82bd0/48cd0cf97d529c95/be940ef3' id='W4727a250e66f972348cd3b64ddb82bd0' height='283' width='384'><param value='http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/48cd3b64ddb82bd0/48cd0cf97d529c95/be940ef3' name='movie'/><param value='transparent' name='wmode'/><param value='all' name='allowNetworking'/><param value='always' name='allowScriptAccess'/></object><br /><br />This photo:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQJWCapUDpw6WADEQbFhqNq99EAAcyQ28tf7GB865Wn1IO_rsVceazI3xMfBfUt8OYC75c1rBRrbqoVow2lUkqNA3aeWWxsrAMe77a-5ukwsXocPpWwEvAKVr3z90sfooNUJBlQ/s1600-h/sp2.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257936499311444370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQJWCapUDpw6WADEQbFhqNq99EAAcyQ28tf7GB865Wn1IO_rsVceazI3xMfBfUt8OYC75c1rBRrbqoVow2lUkqNA3aeWWxsrAMe77a-5ukwsXocPpWwEvAKVr3z90sfooNUJBlQ/s320/sp2.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBkknkSwbcecS9gi0qo6zvHDxZ_3M_6W8r8pxZ65PfHxwb-nMUhogSeVzB4dSWzEZ-lLQww0hJwD654qkdna4GqIc_VuuwPDbAU4fz1FLzHDVP4wHYaZ2e8aYE817uQneUaeQmLw/s1600-h/sp2.JPG"></a><br /><br />Sarah Palin <strong>herself</strong>.<br /><br />All <strong>deeply hilarious</strong> and very good for alleviating the workday (provided you have perfected the art of <strong>silent, desk-based laughter</strong>).<br /><br />But we use to think <a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushdumbquotes.htm">Bushisms</a> were funny. I used to LOVE bushisms.<br /><br />Surely, I thought, the fact that there is a <strong>brand of humour</strong> named after this man would be the ultimate sign of his <strong>unrelenting</strong> stupidity. But perhaps it was <strong>distracting</strong> – a coping mechanism when futile <strong>anger</strong> and fury became exhausting.<br /><br />Is it possible the humour-element will prevent a proper <strong>appreciation</strong> of the frightening danger of Vice President Palin?<br /><br />Yes, <strike>Bush</strike> she is <strong>funny</strong>. But <strike>Bush</strike> she is only funny because <strike>he</strike> she is breathtakingly, remorselessly, unfailingly <strong>unqualified</strong>.<br /><br />And this is not an abstract debate - there is no shortage of examples to evidence the results of an unqualified leader at this time.comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18334692.post-23421965162864151962008-10-13T19:36:00.004+11:002008-10-13T19:57:51.557+11:00This is not the Fail blogIf <span style="font-style: italic;">Australian Idol</span> is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">talent</span> competition...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiWCvJ22tEUXTVu_ksVgkWpAuT77xrh1nnZpMDgvyt_fEpaoRfABSxIsh0nxoEDz-GMjHvaItjrKhyrfrntd-3LRk6pQthyphenhyphenXXIzZ0MQQMhpYqt0rn75Ys8rwUwC-MljoGGy-UIfQ/s1600-h/TJ.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiWCvJ22tEUXTVu_ksVgkWpAuT77xrh1nnZpMDgvyt_fEpaoRfABSxIsh0nxoEDz-GMjHvaItjrKhyrfrntd-3LRk6pQthyphenhyphenXXIzZ0MQQMhpYqt0rn75Ys8rwUwC-MljoGGy-UIfQ/s320/TJ.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256559770480812770" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23SPTqHwumtq_kpOq18cmjOIqgVaWJoOs8nQjqvwJ47Kzyr5g6UdaBA4v8sdL11DX1QrgqnYVNJgAQdgZJy5KxfXva7BsOkp5QlrGOtmRNmy0Dlu3LIQIJizfC7lXpFfCfmK_Jg/s1600-h/TB.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23SPTqHwumtq_kpOq18cmjOIqgVaWJoOs8nQjqvwJ47Kzyr5g6UdaBA4v8sdL11DX1QrgqnYVNJgAQdgZJy5KxfXva7BsOkp5QlrGOtmRNmy0Dlu3LIQIJizfC7lXpFfCfmK_Jg/s320/TB.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256559636952259154" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8X5yfb9Lb4qIWl2bqmQwTbjbzV_Mc40qE4diApIeWPCzKm-MExYMQtBop5UT0Ufyw3QdR27F2KnQlXZQUAHM8AsIcMtOorUR1KI3ZVjHfuG9iliVZxfT52kJCFgehMDcDGhSmw/s1600-h/LD.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8X5yfb9Lb4qIWl2bqmQwTbjbzV_Mc40qE4diApIeWPCzKm-MExYMQtBop5UT0Ufyw3QdR27F2KnQlXZQUAHM8AsIcMtOorUR1KI3ZVjHfuG9iliVZxfT52kJCFgehMDcDGhSmw/s320/LD.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256559543103462658" border="0" /></a>comicstripherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.com1