Unending piles of work - writing exams, marking assignments, complying with bureaucracy - have muted my sense of the joy-of-life over the past few days. Life feels like one hassled, pointless, industrial-strength march towards boot hill.
The following from John S. and Lena provided comic relief.
This is my dole diary. Some of this may be true.
07:00 Hit snooze
09:00 Berate myself for flushing the alarm clock down the toilet. Fucking thing doesn’t work. Must use neighbours loo.
09:01 Turn on Kath and Kim on Ten. Can’t decide if David Reine is faking stupidity.
09:03 Put kettle on and make a large plunger of strong coffee.
09:05 Regret final drink, which even though I can’t remember drinking, now believe to be completely unnecessary. Read more »
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The new season of Australia’s Next Top Model has started. And you know what that means — each episode is being forensically funnied by PetStarr of Bland Canyon:
OHM OY GOURD CAN YOY EVEN BELOYVE IT?
ANTM is like, totally on again! And after winning fans, admiration and even the blessing of the anointed one, ANTM3 winner Alice Burdeu (I’m not kidding - see that big old quote over on the right there? That ain’t made up you know), I’ve decided to get back on the model rollercoaster and blog ANTM4 for your reading pleasure. Read more »
. . . is the shiznit. My girlfriend just introduced me to this sitcom featuring the adventures of the eponymous New Zealand musical comedy duo in New York. Great supporting cast, hilarious songs, dead-on David Bowie impersonations and lashings of NZ inferiority complex.
“If You’re Into It”
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This popped into my inbox about an hour ago from the CIS. I suggest you register your interest early as I reckon tickets will sell bloody quick. I will be going to the Perth lunch as a birthday present to myself. Anyone else going?
PJ O’Rourke speaks at the 25th Annual John Bonython Lecture and CIS Annual Dinner
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, Sydney
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I’ve written previously on how Alice in Wonderland has made it into many Court judgments. Well, now Jerry and Elaine have made it into a judgment too!
In Parish Oil Co Inc v Dillon Companies Inc, the US Court of Appeals in Colorado mentioned Seinfeld in an anti-trust case: Read more »
I would be astonished if Troy Buswell gets a kick out of smelling the seat that a woman has recently sat in. I assume his actions in sniffing the seat of a female Liberal Party staffer (in her presence) were a questionable joke that has gone seriously wrong. You wonder about the motives of the woman concerned in making her outrage known to be public and in publicly crucifying Buswell in front of his colleagues and his family. Read more »
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