‹ 28.1.05 / 0 comment(s) ›
Belated congrats to Gazza who won the Antipodean Homosexualist award at this year's Queeries ... well done that man! (soon to be auctioned on eBay: one hanky, soaked with the bitter tears of rejection).
‹ 23.1.05
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The following is an extract from a wonderfully fiesty rebuke from Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, President of the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games: Since When Is Greece's Culture Obscene?
As Americans surely are aware, there is great hostility in the world today to cultural domination in which a single value system created elsewhere diminishes and degrades local cultures. There is also a vast and violent global culture war raging between the forces of modernism and fundamentalism, a battle whose outcome cannot be known. In this context, it is astonishingly unwise for an agency of the U.S. government to engage in an investigation that could label a presentation of the Greek origins of civilization as unfit for television viewing.You tell 'em sister. It just goes to show that you can't do anything that won't offend some poor corruptable soul who happens to tune in, especially when it involves *gasp* the unclothed human form. People need to chill the fuck out ... I mean really.
It is my hope that Americans will consider this advice: Don't punish NBC or Greece for accurately portraying Greek culture in your living rooms.
‹ 19.1.05 / 0 comment(s) ›
Say it with me now kids ... owwee OWWWEEE OWWWWEEEE! At right is what happens when you accidentally fire a nail into your head. And then don't think you've got more than a toothache for the next week or so. Apparently though it's not an uncommon thing round those parts: "This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realise it," neurosurgeon Sean Markey said. No doubt a six figure marketing deal for analgesics awaits.
‹ 18.1.05
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Rumble rumble rumble ... we're certainly getting jolted around a bit tonight: take a look. Numbers 2352986 and 2353002 were real doozies - just sharp jolts of a few seconds duration each but definitely enough to make curse under your breath each time. The disturbing thing is, they're getting bigger. Mummy!
‹ 18.1.05
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I'm tickled pink (indeed) to have been nominated for best Australian and New Zealand Weblog at the Queeries - as several have commented already, this may now mean that I have to write something around here. They have a point. Also up is Gareth. Vote for him! (because he has a 'X sleeps til Cher!' countdown on the sidebar, and that's kinda gay). Or vote for me! (because I just booked my flights to Sydney Mardi Gras tonight and that's really gay). Just remember to vote early and vote often!
‹ 12.1.05
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And before he knew it, it was 2005. Spent a great couple of weeks down South - Christmas in Invercargill, then up to North Otago to see the rellies and on to Sumner in Christchurch for several days relaxing near the beach. All good stuff. Settling into work is proving a little harder though, made harder by the fact that the weather finally seems to be coming right ... 'Murphy's First Law of New Zealand Summers' strikes again.
‹ 12.1.05
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