Well thank fucking christ - we no longer have to listen to the off-key, affected, annoying, a-musical, unartistic, AFFECTED Lisa. Now we just have Ricky, who still doesn't really deserve to be there but good on him, Chris, who is less annoying these days, Damien, who is very talented, Jessica, who I like, and Dean-the-fucking-christian ( Read more... )

Stott-Despoja to bow out of politicsSouth Australian Democrats Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja has announced she will not be standing at the next federal election ( Read more... )

'Politicians are adding to the culture of complaint, exploiting public misunderstandings rather than correcting them.'

- Mark Latham, The Latham Diaries, Melbourne University Press, 2005, p. 81

(I actually posted this last night, while Butters was composing his response to my existential crisis. Stupidly, I posted it while he was logged ( Read more... )

Dilemma:

I cannot possibly know anything. To know anything, I must know that there is nothing that could possibly contradict it. Therefore, to know anything, I must know everything. Now, to know everything, I must know that I know everything. To know that I know everything, I must know that there is nothing I don't know. And so the circle ( Read more... )

Thanks to inspiration from my typo-ridden boyfriend, I am heretowith going to refer to 'email' as 'aemail'.

I like a good old-fashioned dipthong.

Heh - I mistyped that as 'dipthing'. I will heretowith refer to 'dipthongs' as 'dipthings'.

Well, the motherfuckers in the Australian public voted out Bobby. Stupid bastards. There are far less-talented people on that show. Like Lisa, or bloody Ricky (as much as I like him ( Read more... )

I hate Cuntrelink. I hate my Jobseeker Diary. I hate being unemployed. I hate having to prove that I want a job. Who in their right minds would not want a job? I'm bored to tears already, now that the play is over and I have nothing to do. Bored, bored, bored. And there aren't any more jobs I want to apply for. I just have to wait. Fuckit.

( Some messages of praise for SatisFaction by the Union Players )

I watched this documentary today. It's fucking amazing. It fit with everything that I thought so far, but put it so succinctly and in such a great timeline that it filled in all the holes - large and small - in my understanding of the roles of neoconservatism and Islamic fundamentalism in today's crazy, fucked-up, war-on-terror culture ( Read more... )

It's been a while, what with rehearsals and performances and a new boyfriend, and all, but I'm back this week to give you my own personal (biased and subjective) opinions about whoever is left in this god-awful competition.

Let's get down to it.

I have to admit that, as much as I love him, I'm a bit over Bobby, now. He's just a bit... same. Every ( Read more... )