December 2010
2011 Celebrity Shag: make your decision soon.
I don’t go in much for tradition, but one that my friends have that I like is that on New Year’s Day, you have until the sun goes down to nominate a celebrity who your significant other has to let you bone down with no questions asked should the opportunity arise.
2010 was ok because I chose wisely. 2009 was a damned nightmare. We started drinking early that day and I made an offhand...
“Perhaps because Abrams listens to too much NPR or doesn’t read the New...”
– Floyd Abrams whizzes on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
vaccerelli:
I swear to god for every interesting tumblr I stumble across just a-wandering it’s like there’s fifty that are a bunch of brightly backlit pictures of vaguely hipster-ish people standing around in nature or decrepit warehouses looking confused or horny
I spend most of my life confused and horny. I thought that’s what was meant by the term ‘the human condition’.
Yoko Ono (in an interview): If John were around today he’d love Facebook.
He would love the way the world has changed. He’d love the internet and Twitter. He’d be sending out pronouncements and messages and giving his opinion all the time on everything.
Erin (next to me in bed): Yeah, because he was a self-centred cunt! Remind me to send Mark David Chapman a fruit basket.
Unintended consequences.
The Westgate Bridge is the largest and most prominent bridge in Melbourne. Each day almost 200,000 cars travel across it, their drivers wishing they were somewhere else.
Ever since the Westgate was built, people have been jumping from it to their deaths. A couple of years ago, a man threw his children from the bridge, killing them. In response to these facts, the government decided to build...
Again, I blog.
Last week, my aunt died after many years battling illness. Her death was in some ways a relief for her husband and children, but in every way that matters it was devastating.
My uncle has been my aunt’s full-time carer for the past ten years. Had been, I guess I mean. When she was alive, my aunt was on a disability pension and my uncle received a carer’s allowance from the government....
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We are regularly told that suicide is the leading cause of death for people under the age of 30. Generally this factoid is mentioned in articles about depression, or in articles that have been generated as a result of press releases from mental health organisations.
I think we can all agree that all suicides are regrettable, and most are tragic indeed.
However.
Statistically, something has to...
The Best of Bootie 2010 is out. →
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“So our culture has once again suffered a degradation by the need to explain away...”
– Christopher Hitchens Ignore the recent attempts to explain away Henry Kissinger’s “gas chamber” remarks; his career is a long list of massacres and outrages.
If only Kissinger would submit to being interviewed by Errol Morris.
I used to wonder about who was sleeping with whom until I realised that that information is utterly useless to me.
“It’s like asking Jackie Kennedy, “Well, other than that, how was the drive...”
– Dead Presidents on the question of whether we’d think better of Nixon if it weren’t for Watergate.
“Welcome to Shart Chart, a site about pooping your pants… accidentally....”
– Shart Chart
Internet, you complete me.
“A drink-driver more than five times the legal limit tooted his horn at a highway...”
– ‘What car?’ Horn-happy drunk stuns highway patrol
Melbourne: Even our drunk drivers are better than yours.
kylekinane:
Meatloaf roadie said touring Europe and Australia were great, but the US was no good. I said, “Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad.” He didn’t laugh.
I have filed Kyle Kinane under: People I Want To Get Really Really Really Drunk With.
The Pillow Fort: The Netherlands →
ryanpurtill:
I just read that Dutch police arrested 12 Somalis on Christmas Eve on suspicion of plotting an imminent terrorist attack on the Netherlands.
The Netherlands? Who would ever want to hurt the Netherlands? It is an entire country of fair-haired blue-eyed children eating chocolate and handing out…
I don’t know if you’re trolling or not. I think that the family of...
“We’re arming the Beastie Boys between the whores.”
Sometimes, I blog here.
I went to a funeral today. My aunt’s.
I remember when she and my uncle married. All of our family was just so white and protestant and boiled meat, and her family was huge and Italian (actually from Italy) and the service was the full-on Catholic catastrophe. It went on (to my young mind) forever, but it was like something from another world. My mind might be playing tricks on me, but I...
“Whatever accusations are laid against him, it will always be a fit-up, a...”
– Shaun Carney (Assange’s slipshod standards | The Age)
I wish I remember where this came from.
Some years ago I read a passage that went something like this:
“It’s not that men like women who dress like whores –– it’s that whores dress in such a way as to appeal to what men like.”
I really wish I remember where it came from. It feels like Paglia but I can’t be bothered reading Vamps and Tramps again.
“Ross,” they say, “why don’t you use cloud based services for your business?”
Yes, this happens all the time and is not hyperbole at all.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
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parglet asked: I follow Erin and yourself on Twitter (mainly for the repartee and general abuse) . I saw you guys on Friday night down Smith St, walking past Yah Yah's. I can tell you it was a really weird experience. It kind of broke my brain-hole for awhile...
Oh yeah, this isn't really a question.
Oh yeah, this isn't really a question.
parglet asked: I follow Erin and yourself on Twitter (mainly for the repartee and general abuse) . I saw you guys on Friday night down Smith St, walking past Yah Yah's. I can tell you it was a really weird experience. It kind of broke my brain-hole for awhile...
Oh yeah, this isn't really a question.
Oh yeah, this isn't really a question.
“Twitter is like StumbleUpon for people.”
– @JoeStump
