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How Was Your Day Sweetie

November 29th 2006 02:24
I turned on my TV. There was an announcement about terrorism. It said be alert, not afraid. I didn’t know what a lert was, so I looked it up in the dictionary under L. I found nothing, so I rang information. They gave me a definition. From that moment on, I decided to be – a lert. I studied terrorism. I looked at people. I wondered what sort of chemical based explosive could be hidden in a turban. Beard spotting became second nature to me. I could go into a café and name every potential chemical cocktail that could be made with separated portions of the pasties on display.

Soon however, I became tired of being a lert. I had to become something else. I decided to become a live. Now, I wasn't quite sure how to do this, so I spent some time taking notes off the TV. I needed a wife, house and kids. Preferably there'd be a coffee lounge too but it wasn't a necessity. I posted an ad in the paper for a wife. There were so many applicants, I decided to find true love the only way that would let my soul soar and let beauty run into my blood. Yes, that's right. Reality TV.


I was the Bachelor, and every night I handed out roses, genetically modified so they were aphid free. It became a toss up between two girls - Madeleine and Carmodean. Madeleine had thicker eyebrows. Carmodean won. We married. We got a big house, pool, car, and two children called Nuraphel and Supafly. We got them educated. We got them a high private tuition. Nuraphel became a dole bludging heroin addict. Supafly was a well educated, well known high priced respected entrepreneurial - prostitute. My wife divorced me. She took everything but the house. And, of course, I got the TV.

Soon, Nuraphel died of an overdose while mixing heroin with oregano. I went to her funeral. I threw flowers. I cried seventeen point three seven tears. I listened to a man with a dress talk to people he'd never met, about a man he'd never known, visiting his boss, who didn't even go on TV. I looked around the church and saw that guy from the Mel Gibson Movie. He looked uncomfortable. Probably cos he didn't have a DVD player.


Suddenly a terrorist force descended upon us, shooting everyone in their path. I tried to save my wife but her head had exploded like a ripe watermelon under the foot of a prehistoric mammal. I went home, dejected. I had ceased to be a lert, without noticing. I may no longer be a live. I had done so little. I had failed. I was a failure.

And so, once again I returned to the Television, desperate for redemption. But there was nothing. So I got one hundred and thirty two new channels of pay TV. Nothing moved me. Not the beautiful ideals of Bold and the Beautiful. Not the sheer emotional impact of Jerry Springer. Not even women with plastic surgery selling nipple cream could stir my spirit. I had to do something. So I wrote my own TV show called 'Kinky Origami Masters of Death.' Shannon Noll played the lead role.

I became rich and famous, and bought a mansion in America, but soon, no amount of prozac, no hours of Survivor, no litres of Coca~Cola, no gourmet made pieces of biologically enhanced twenty seven legged chicken could satisfy me. I was a lone. But I was rich.
One day, as I ate my low fat Subway, smothered in Kraft mayonnaise, and smoked my Phillip-Morris cigarettes over a refreshing blue Vodka cruiser, my Nokia twelve mobile phone rang. The dial tone was Brittany Spears. Hello. I said.

Come to the airport. They said. They hung up.

I got into my favourite MG and drove straight there. I got on a plane that was booked for me, and arrived at my old house. It was falling apart, but the electricity was still on, so the only thing that mattered still worked. My TV.

Suddenly, young white kids who thought they were Snoop Doggy Dog, and a black kid who was trying to be Eminem threw rocks at my house in a blaintent rebellion against the forces deemed to be society. My antenna broke. My television turned to static, many black and white dots. I tried to count them but they had a refresh rate of 12000000000:1. I knew if I tried to count them all I would be overcome by a madness that would have me dancing in the street and running naked with wolves. I knew if I didn't fight I would be overcome. So I stopped fighting. And it was beautiful. I rang my boss. He said, What? I said, Bite me. I danced in the street, and ran naked with wolves.

I was complete.
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International Buy Nothing Day

November 24th 2006 08:00
Just so you know, tomorrow, November 25, is International Buy Nothing day. A kind of Anti Holiday, started by the Adbusters foundation.

There is a bit of confusion as to what the point of Buy Nothing Day is. There is no intention of attempting to use this one day of the year to single handedly cripple massive corporations. Honestly, lefties may be naive sometimes, but not to that extent. Secondly, it’s not a bloody minded absolute – it’s a day to not buy anything inessential. If you’re hit by a truck, it’s ok to buy fuel to get you to the hospital rather than lying on the ground in a pool of blood and self righteousness.

So then, what’s the point?

The point of the day is to draw attention to the gross excesses of modern civilisation, and point out the damage it is doing to our world. Kalle Lasn, Adbuster’s Media Foundation Founder, says it better here;



As one of Adbusters magazines suggested, there are three laws.

1. Nothing comes from nowhere.
2. Everything comes from somewhere.
3. There’s no such thing as a free lunch…

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Anyway... Have a Kit-Kat

November 22nd 2006 12:28
Kitkat
Have a break
Oh No!

Alan Jones and every other redneck in the nation have begun to complain about Kit-Kats having new 'OK for muslims' symbols on them.

OK... get over it.

Presumably, this was done in order to overcome boycots directed at Nestle's links with Israel.

Please note, I haven't got any info except a segment on TV, as there is nothing on the net about this so far... however it is clear that Nestle do appear to be attempting to win back Muslim support.
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Polyamory, PUA and Sleaziness

November 22nd 2006 02:24
He Men
Spot the ordinary everyday guy with no chance - and then the sleazebag He-Man!


My friend Solace, who was mentioned in, and left a comment in, This Article, was talking to me the other day, defending the Pick Up Artist Culture, with this comment;
Hehe I find it funny that others comment on how PUA's simply treat women as objects.

The truth is, 99% of PUA's I know are genuinely nice guys who dont have the confidence to talk to and entertain women, they do care for and treat them with respect. A Hell of a lot more respect than the 6'6" muscle bound jock in the corner does (which the girl would most likely go for if we weren't around). It's the fact that people stereotype that PUA = sleeze that really annoys me.

There isn't a single guy in the lair who simply wants to lay as many women as fast as he can (As far as I know), we all want (we'll I certainly do) what's best for everyone so why would you deny our right to have learn the skills to meet women and be more entertaining and sociable people, not only improving ourselves but the lives all the others girls who may otherwise end up with a selfish, sleezy, abusive boyfriend.

Cheers, Solace

He said that it wasn’t a way for sleazes to get girls, but rather a way for ordinary guys to get girls, who seem otherwise occupied with falling for guys who are inevitably, sleazes.
The part of PUA, in fact, that seems to contradict this statement, at least a little, is what you’d pretty much call it’s ‘essentiality of polyamory.’

PUA culture seemingly demands polyamory, being loosely defined as the loving of more than one person, and looks down on Monogamy, referring to it by the derogatory term ‘one-itis’. PUA artists do not settle for one girl. They need more. A new girl every time. And any long term relationships are MLTRs; Multiple Long Term Relationships.

So, does this constitute sleaze? Surely it’d be fairly poor form just to suggest that polyamory is sleazy by it’s very nature, when many polygamous individuals engage in longer, more sincere and, dare it be said, normal relationships than many who demand monogamy.

However, polyamory has a focus on quality, not quantity, for which PUA represents the opposite. Basically, as far as I can see, traditional PUA isn’t, like traditional polyamory, about love, so much as about achievement. And that, as far as I can see, translates to competitive macho bullshit, in which ladies are tally marks more than individuals. And that could certainly be said to constitute sleaziness.

Now, I’ve known Solace for some time, back when he wasn’t Solace. I know he’s not, like so many guys, a typical sleazebag. However, the deeper culture of PUA seems to be essentially based on all the principles that those whom most proponents of PUA, hate other men for displaying.

It just seems, that whether or not intentionally, PUA has managed to take on that old adage; If you can’t beat them, join them.
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Self Sufficency

November 17th 2006 01:30
Piggies!
Could you raise these cute critters? And, erm, eat them?
Sometimes doing something new is just doing something old. Like living off the land. It’s often been something in my head, living like that, just a kind of wispy fantasy.
Although, right now I’m abuzz with delight, as I’m just bought the most awesome book in the world: The complete guide to self sufficiency.
This is awesome. Included in this book are detailed instructions on how to farm, to keep, kill and eat animals, to gain energy from the sun, wind and water, to make fuel from animal waste, to make a drop toilet, to do blacksmithing, pottery, and so on.
This book was exiting, not only because of the wealth of knowledge it gave, but because it proved to me, with something actually solid, physical, that the dreams I had were entirely possible. I might not be ploughing fields within the next week, but I can see, with a beautiful clarity, that there are more ways to live, than the one we seem to have, as a species, resigned ourselves to, rather than chosen.
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Life is Beautiful

November 15th 2006 01:30
sunset


I’m serious. Open your window. Look outside. Actually look. Breathe in. Smile. You exist, and you just as easily could have been the sperm that didn’t quite make it. You can taste the freshness of juice. You can feel the warmth of the sun.
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Being a Writer

November 13th 2006 01:30
Storytelling
Stories Inform, they captivate, they warn. They are our way of learning, without needing experience.
For a while I was all; why the hell am I doing this? Why am I spending, like, hours a day, churning out oodles of words on my computer? Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club once said his greatest fear was to grow old and die behind a computer screen, recording existence rather than engaging with it.
I have to say, I was getting pretty serious about analysing writing as a major life element, and what I was generally seeing, I was not generally liking.
This was until I read a book for my Indigenous Studies class, called Maybe Tomorrow, by Boori Pryor. The story touches on many elements of Indigenous culture, but the one that struck a real chord with me, was the value of storytelling within Indigenous communities. In these communities, stories are lessons, they are history, they are culture, they are warnings, they are entertainment. They are the messages around which we understand our very existence. Free Willy, as a story, expressed the importance of nature. Star Wars is a moral tale of the power of good over evil. And if George Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t a warning, I don’t know what it was


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Black Armband History

November 10th 2006 06:40
Johnny
John Howard: One of many who refer to a black arm band view of history
The term ‘Black Arm Band’ has been kicked around a fair bit over the years, but I imagine there’d be a good few people who aren’t entirely sure of it’s meaning. So, aren’t you glad I’m here to explain? No, no please, stop, I’m getting bashful.
Anyhow… It goes a little something like this. White people come to Australia. White people take land from Black people. Black people get cranky. White people don’t care. White people write history. History = White people came along, were attacked by savages who were treated well, when they weren’t having to shoot them, and took the land that they hadn’t done anything with and gave it gallantly to the Queen! Tally Ho!
So, what happens next? Oh yeah. TIME. It kind of passes


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Dafur

November 8th 2006 01:40
Dafur
Dafur
Remember a while back when there was all that fuss over Wawa, the cute little black kid from Indonesia who was allegedly going to be eaten? No? Well wouldn’t blame you. As profitable as it is, bogus television news has a reasonably short shelf life. Basically he was this kid that Naomi Robson and her 60 Minutes shmucks went to Indonesia to ‘rescue’, before, goshdarnit, they were sabotaged by another network.

Well, we all know that there’s plenty of holes in this story. However, the question I want to ask is slightly different; it is this


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