On a slow day, the moderation queue can provide a laugh or two. “Not bad at all, but this topic is rather little of interest. Please do not disappoint your readership,” writes “Vonido”, huffily. Vonido, I apologise, and I’ll do my best to serve the needs of my spambots better in future! Read more »
It came as no surprise to me that Michael Haneke’s name came up in this LP discussion about the horribleness in Austria. Haneke directs bleak, distressing films like Funny Games and The Piano Teacher- which I think are wonderful, but horrible to watch– he’s Austrian, and it’s easy to imagine the filmmaker and the twisted paterfamilias growing from the same social matrix. Read more »
I appreciate the torrential downpour (complete with hailstones the size of oranges and a celestial lightshow) yesterday, I really do. You know we need the rain desperately - last month had the lowest rainfall on record, and governments both State and Federal are starting to get serious about water policies.
But did you have to do it just when Boychild was lining up for the “zone” 11 y.o. cross country, being the first time he’d ever qualified? Hah?
I got another distressing image, or set of images, through the email: a friend send it to me with a link to a petition to exclude Guillermo “Habacuc” Vargas, a Costa Rican artist, from the 2008 Bienal Centroamericana Honduras. Read more »
From Decentpedia:
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Don’t delay - get your Condemnitt Office Assistant today. Read more »
From the AGE, “Heckler” section, Sunday, April 6.
Babysittin’ Man
…There were shades of one of [Damon] Runyon’s classic stories - Butch minds the baby - at Collingwood Football Club HQ the other day when Mr President Eddie McGuire recognised a large, earless, tattooed man with a small boy.
Eddit tossed babysitter Chopper Read a bag of Magpie merchandise to keep Read junior occupied… Read more »
My SO received an email the other day: “Fwd: Mu$lim pu$$y”.
Except, it wasn’t from a spambot, but from a friend of ours. (He’s married to one of my lifelong friends from olden times.) A middle-class, middle-aged, well educated (=should know better) inner-suburban professional dad.
The attachment was a powerpoint presentation, so I’ll just do a digest of it for you here, shall I?
(Slide 1) Text:
“In case you were wondering what a Muslim pu$$y looks like…” Read more »
Exodus! screams this newspaper article.
Official figures released yesterday showed 66.4% of the nation’s 3.4 million full-time students were at government schools last year, falling from 66.8% a year earlier and 70% in 1997.
In Victoria, which has the second highest proportion of students in non-government schools after the ACT, just over 35% of students, or 297,970, now go to non-government schools, compared to 262,948 a decade ago. Read more »
Li’l Ollie has settled in a treat. Every sunday, he goes to the Hobson’s Bay dog obedience club (which is in Port Melbourne, just to be different.) We take Maggie too. She used to go there when she was a crazy little basket case from the Lost Dogs home, and now she is a real goody two-shoes, heeling, staying and dropping like a pro. Read more »
You might remember that I blogged last year on the possibility that the Victorian government might vote to decriminalise abortion. Read more »
Girlchild: “She’s not doing the VCE. She’s doing the International Bachelorette.”
Here’s the story of last weekend’s Apollo Bay music festival, in which Tess McKenna and her band do battle with multiple manifestations of Murphy’s Law, and still have a rollicking good time. Read more »
…to write something for Anzac Day:
I’m just going to send you to this comment at LP by Jack Robertson on Anzac day last year. Because you might as well have the best.
Last Friday, I had to attend one of those team bonding exercises for work, which meant that our manager took us all out to a slick CBD bowling alley and bar. I’m not much of a bowler but we all started on the snooker tables afterward, a game I do find absorbing. Like the pokies venues which dot this city, the place was artificially lit, noisy and had no clocks, so I ended up going over time and had to desperately phone around to get Boychild picked up from his after school care. Read more »
W00t! I’m going to the play two gigs with Tess McKenna at the Apollo Bay music festival.
Also, we’re going to use the bass drum this time, rather than the semi-acoustic snare and brushes shtick which I did last time, so I can lay down da funky grooves better. So much more fun to rock it out a bit more. Read more »
I’ve kept the faith for the better part of two years. I never un-blogrolled them, because some little part of me, deep inside - my anterior ulna maybe - believed the Medium Lobster, Giblets and Fafnir would return some day.
*Wipes away a little tear*
Some commenters are cautious because, well, that day was April 1. But the new blog design suggests they’re going to stay for a while.
Enjoy.
I’m not turning the fridge off. Not. SO reckon’s I’m cheating. I reckon throwing away a heap of food would be an act of unthinking bourgeois symbolism which creates more environmental damage than it would save.
Anyway that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
The World’s Greatest Shave is a fundraiser in which the participants shave their heads and are sponsored for doing it. The money goes to the Leukaemia Foundation. Many of you remember when John Quiggin shaved off his iconic beard for the cause in a father-and-son shave. Read more »
Ariel tagged me for a meme on weird and wonderful things your kid does, which reminded me I’ve been sitting on a meme that Bernice tagged me for aeons ago. So I’ll do that one first and tackle the Quirky Kid next. Read more »
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