Two of the largest states in Australia handed down budgets deep in the red, New South Wales into the billions and Queensland looking at eight consecutive years of deficits. Personal rant warning: I have an issue with any government local, state or federal posting a surplus. Not keen on the deficit mind you but really [...]
Archive for June, 2009
A quick little aside for The Creature. If your going to make a choice between the UK and NZ in the wake of the next Republican being elected US President – go NZ. If the current 100% Pure New Zealand television advertisement is anything to go by, it seems pretty remote and fabulous and it appears they have managed to have got their rampant Hobbit and Orc infestations under control at last… so they’ll probably take on some non-Republicans if push came to shove. (Darren Saturday | 2 Comments)
Awkward ‘Word’ to Your Mother
Published by June 17th, 2009 in Dispatches from another world. 1 CommentI am losing my hair. Once it was full and magnificent and now… not so much. My father has a full head of hair, salted and ever so slightly peppered. My mother has thick fabulous hair that frames her face and makes swishy sounds when she turns suddenly at unexpected noises. Like an air rifle [...]
just took my faithful car in for a standard log book service… expectation $200.00. Pick it up and apparently all the brakes had to be machined and replaced and some C shaft was split and replaced… $820.00 please… oh and you have a hole in your muffler but we left that… would it make any difference if I knew more about cars? Maybe… but they’d still be robber barons in dirty overalls. (Darren Saturday | 2 Comments)
‘Can’t we talk about this?’ asked Jack. ‘No,’ Jacob said. ‘No more talk. I’m done with talking.’ ‘But,’ Jack said, ‘maybe you’ll get used to it?’ ‘Get used to it?’, Jacob said with a snort. ‘I’d rather kill myself than carry you around for the rest of my life. In fact, I’d rather kill myself [...]
It must be a slow news day. The current affairs shows have reached deep into their in case of emergency programming and are all airing ‘shocking’ exposes on the dangers of everything in our grocery shopping cart. Colouring and flavours are gonna kill us.. but our food will taste better and be visually more appealing. But the real badass is preservative 202. From what I can tell, if it comes in a box, a packet, a can and won’t rot within the day – it is fulla 202. Apparently come the next war to end all wars it’ll be the 202 that keeps us fed… despite the fact that 202 is slowly killing us all. But isn’t that the essence of life? We are all slowly dying of old age at the very least. I reckon if 202 can keep a can of foodstuffs preserved in an edible condition for an extra two years more than it’s normal shelf life then maybe we should be looking at gulping down added 202 and extend our own lives. Just sayin’ (Darren Saturday | 2 Comments)
When did it become amazingly cool to wear really chunky headphones around the city? I have to admit, it really does look like you’re seriously into your music when you show you’re willing to wear 4 kilos of mini-speakers strapped to your head. Although, the guy I respect the most is the one who works somewhere in my building, whose headphones also have a microphone. First time I saw him I thought, “Hell yes, that’s what the world needs. Personal Karaoke!” I imagine him standing in a lift with a whole group of other people, shreiking “Who’s Bad?! Shamoni! Oooooo!” along with the music that only he can hear… (Murray @ Midnight | 2 Comments)
No question that the recent Air France flight from Brazil that crashed is a tragedy. But I am left kinda amazed at two things – one, the fact that people are stunned a plane could crash and two the news coverage… I mean I am amazed they stay in the air in the first place. [...]
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