My distaste for talk radio is known to anybody who knows me well. Talk radio isn’t that much different from blogging really. News, views, commentary on socio-political issues etc. The only difference with talk radio is that egos tend to get in the way. In the race to win higher ratings, somebody’s always ready to try and break a story. Crikey.com.au has a ripper about Stan Zamanek. Apparently he tends not to read fine print on Dept. of Foreign Affairs media releases.
I used to work in a nursery in the suburb of Chermside (northern outskirts of Brisbane) where my boss listened to 4BC. It ran John Laws every morning. He listened to it every morning. I had to work with my boss every morning. You can see where I’m heading.
Occasionally I tune in to talk stations here in Melbourne just to see what is going on. Anyone would think the world is going to end tomorrow listening to these radio stations. Subjects covered generally fall into one of these two categories. 1. Evil government plots that plan to take away all our rights and tax us until we bleed. 2. Evil corporate plots that plan to take away all our rights and bill us until we bleed. People who listens to that crap regularly are probably going through a mid-life crisis anyway. Maybe that explains talk radio’s negativity.
I have a bit of an obsession with international politics. Like I’ve said before, I’m no political scientist but ‘fair play’ is pretty easy to spot, and the lack of is even easier.
Argentina is up the creek, Uruguay is following and now Paul O’Neill, the US Treasury Secretary (does that mean he makes tea for the boss) is sending jitters through the Brazilian economy by making all sorts of threats. I wonder if the possibility of the Brazilian people electing a leftist president has anything to do with that?
Only in the US can a tea-making secretary have so much power:)
The “fashionable” breast more typically occurs among teenagers and breasts with any more dip or drop or fullness beyond what is poetically known as “pert” could only be called, in catwalk terms, “unfashionable”.
The above quote comes from The Age in an article titled “Topless by Design.” I thought the fashion industry was trying to get away from the waif-like image. Seems not. Hey girls, don’t worry about what colour high heels to wear, just make sure your jubblies are fashionable. Geesh!
The monthly archive template is up and running and looking horribly unformatted. Hey, that’s just my style OK. Eventually, sometime next century, I’ll get this blog looking passable.
Expect a return to normal blogging later in the weekend. I think my eyes are square now from tinkering with and learning about MT.
At least now the main blog page is working OK. Need to tweak the styles and organize the links on the right hand side a little better but hey, MoveableType is now up and running.
Sorry, I know it’s ridiculous to change the address of the site after all this time (15 months) but at least there’s only 15 or so of you that bother to read this shit. What the hell are you wingeing about anyway? It’s not that hard to change your bookmarks or take the blog.html off the anchor tags in your templates.
Next is the archive pages. They still have the standard MT template governing them. Won’t be long until they are all looking kosher as well. C’mon, give me some comments you bastards!
Barring any bugger-ups, the start of August should see the introduction of Moveable Type for this blog. I was toing and froing about whether to use it and in the end the automated archiving and the ability for others to lodge comments made the decision easy for me. Expect another new look very soon. If only I spent as much time on my Uni. studies as I do on rooting around with the look of this blog!
I wonder when all the conspiracy theorists will start claiming that the nine miners that were trapped underground (and rescued today) in Pennsylvania were part of an elaborate governmental plot to boost the spirits of the battle weary American public. I’ll give it a week or so.
Here’s a good read about another conspiracy. Claims of corruption and drug use by the US president.
Bush Junior, no stranger to the taste of his own feet, seems to have corroborated these claims, blurting out at a press conference that he hadn’t taken drugs "since 1974".
The television will probably not work for at least two weeks. It will be on strike. I doubt that a TV set has ever been sworn at as much as mine was tonight. That’s right, the Richmond football team lost another game. That makes 9 loses in a row but this time it was against the Essendon Bummers, and they lost by only 1 point. Arghh! At least pretty boy James Hird received a whack in the face. Another cranial reconstruction for the young tycoon shouldn’t be a worry.
On the subject of sport, I went to Colonial Stadium today and boy did the field look crappy. The surface is patchy and sandy and it looked as if the ground crew were having trouble putting up the goal posts for tomorrow night’s Leeds United vs Colo Colo soccer game. As I watched on, the ground crew installed the goal posts back-to-front. Well, I thought it was funny.
Tommy Suharto gets 15 years. Nevermind, he’ll be out within 3 and have a top charting gangsta rap album out before becoming president in 2007. You can’t keep a good family down.
Gnome Chompsky.
Holy shit! This site has the lot. Bad early seventies jumpsuits, mullets, ill-fitting t-shirts and beerguts. Band photography that captures the imagination (via the null device via everyone).
If you do want to have a gander at some good photography have a peek at secretthree.com.
Microsoft – nothing more than a gigantic pyramid scheme?
Even psychics have political views these days, especially when the new moon is in the capricorn cycle. Check out the last paragraph.
The Southpark movie is being aired on network television as I write. Channel 9 no less. I thought they’d do a fair bit of editing but much to my surprise the Uncle Fucker song was shown with all those wonderful curses. I wonder if Kerry Packer will be watching and pull the plug (like he did in 1992 to Doug Mulray’s ‘Naughtiest Home Videos’)? Does anybody remember that?
My mother is a history teacher at a school in the northern outskirts of Brisbane. She loves browsing at ancient artifacts on the web. Mum doesn’t normally like vulgarity but recently she told me about an artifact that showed a woman singeing her pubic hair. I nearly pissed myself laughing. Mum decided to send me a link to the artifact. Have a look at it. The folks over at the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.shave newsgroup aren’t trying anything new at all. People have been removing pubic hair for thousands of years it seems. Well I never..!
I’m having a sickie today. I had a fever all last night but am feeling surprisingly better now (just after midday). Sick days are good for their purpose, getting better and not infecting your colleagues/clients with nasty bugs. But by christ I am bored. There’s only so much I can take of crappy daytime television, even though I have 40 channels at my fingertips. Looks like the rest of the arvo will be taken up reading a book in front of the heater.
Music Jamboree last night featured TISM performing ‘(He’ll Never Be An) Ol’ Man River’ on traditional Greek instruments. Make sure you watch this show (Australia only) if only for the final segment, where bands perform one of their songs using traditional instruments from varying cultures. TISM have a song coming out called ‘Philip Ruddock Blues.’ There’s a preview mp3 on their site. It’s probably already been aired but I haven’t heard it yet since I haven’t listened to the ‘yoof’ network for months now.
You’ve got to be kidding me! Colonial Stadium has been re-named ‘Telstra Dome’ from today. What the hell is going on? Are the toilets going to be sponsored by Domestos? Are the coffee outlets to be sponsored by Brazilian farmers? What about the grass being sponsored by Jim’s Mowing?
Anyway the shithole of a place doesn’t even resemble a dome. It has a flat roof. This naming rights business is getting a little out of hand. Just last week Football Park in Adelaide became AAMI Stadium. Not too far down the track streets will be renamed by sponsors. Hell, why not whole suburbs. My suburb can be called Rio, after the underwear manufacturer. After all, there are lots of dicks living around here.
For those of you that are like me, trying to get your head around CSS layout is a task. Try looking at this page. There’s quite a few links to pretty good CSS templates and the like. Not all of them are perfect, but hey, at least you’ll learn something.
Auntie Cheryl had her say tonight on the ABC. You can read the entire transcript of what she said about the whole ‘Garethgate’ thing here. Personally, I find it very dull, which is why I won’t say much about the issue. What I will say is that Australians should be more worried about our present government’s attitude to the public rather than what former politicians did under the sheets years ago.
Meanwhile in more important news, Homer Simpson has been declared a Canadian.
Well, I am speechless. An American who loves the game of cricket.