tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39604362011-12-11T19:41:08.715+08:00Die, Fluffy Wuffy, Die!Thoughts, rants and comic observations from Matt Hayden (not the cricketer)Mattnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-80696774519671727532010-04-28T21:48:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:49:11.431+08:00Decided to resurrect this blog. Let's see how what happens with the titles.Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-86920286134040795342007-08-31T19:56:00.000+08:002007-08-31T20:03:59.741+08:00I've recently started to use a digital camera I bought well over a year ago. As with most things I do now, I've been thinking about how I can use it to turn a buck.Not surprisingly, the net holds a plethora of related earning possibilities. Hope to one day investigate some of the ones listed here.Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-8602149040106421912007-08-10T20:01:00.000+08:002007-08-10T20:09:38.307+08:00One of the advantages of Blogger is that you can write multiple blogs all from the one place. So I thought I'd take advantage of this and create another one. I've got an idea for one that I've been mulling over of late. I live in Sydney, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And I get around the city quite a bit. Since Sydney is so diverse in so many ways, I thought of documenting Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-59696779247409414152007-07-01T20:31:00.000+08:002007-07-01T20:41:14.017+08:00Have recently joined Adsense through Blogger. I'd recommend this to other bloggers, since if you manage to build up some decent traffic you'll eventually earn some money for your trouble. Once you have an Adsense ID you can also participate in revenue sharing with other sites, such as certain article directories. In researching this I've discovered that, understandably, quite a few people are Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-43461752788072514762007-06-30T21:16:00.000+08:002007-06-30T21:41:04.601+08:00When I first heard about news anchor Mika Brzezinski refusing to read out a story about Paris Hilton I suspected her outrage might have been faked. I just couldn't accept that a newsreader -- highly paid no doubt -- would jeopardise her income by acting so unprofessionally.Looks like many other people saw things this way too.In the story linked above, the final lines are, "When it comes to ParisMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-56669503316800721332007-06-25T12:51:00.000+08:002007-06-25T13:01:54.083+08:00For ages the Road Traffic Authority has used increasingly graphic ads to try to dissuade hoons from hooning.Now they're trying a very different, more minimilistic approach. I suspect it might be the most successful campaign yet.Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-3381542190552852262007-06-23T21:45:00.000+08:002007-06-23T21:56:21.508+08:00I think the outrage over this Big Brother goo-throwing incident is pretty over the top. Still, I can understand why Mexicans were miffed. The goo-target, the Mexican flag, does represent their country, after all. Let's just hope that the goo-throwers -- the yokels pictured here -- don't represent Australia!Gawd help us if they do.Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1168309629758978922007-01-09T11:09:00.000+09:002007-01-09T11:27:09.956+09:00Back in 1983 I saw David Bowie on his Serious Moonlight tour (at the Perth Entertainment Centre). He was a veteran then, at age 37.I always remember that concert, since it was the only one I'd ever seen. (Well, the only one of its size. I've seen the odd pub gig, of course! Oh, and I did see Rodriguez, of "Sugar Man" fame. That was a disaster -- seemed he'd binged on the "sugar" that night!)Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1168057056365777662007-01-06T13:09:00.000+09:002007-01-06T13:17:37.480+09:00Anti-smoking zealots have demanded that puffers must give up their habit before undergoing elective surgery. I suggest a compromise: Durrymaniacs should cease and desist -- but only during the procedure itself. Lighting up in the operating theatre is not just rude, it's dangerous. It can burn those gowns and hoods the docs and nurses wear!Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1167879351201427642007-01-04T11:47:00.000+09:002007-01-04T12:02:05.276+09:00Hello readers. As you'll see from the date of the last post, this blog has been fallow for yonks. But it has been consistently getting visitors. It also seems to rank pretty well in Google, perhaps because Blogger is owned by it. So, after a whole 3 years I've decided to resurrect it. I have other Die, Fluffy Wuffy, Die! blogs going. There's the one mentioned below, at tBlog. I've got Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1069036211605671472003-11-17T10:30:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.623+08:00Just a note to say that I'm trying out a new address for a while at least. I do want my blog to be a little more interactive, and this new site enables comments. (But then, if the feedback is a tad too pugnacious, I might just wuss out and return here. So I'm leaving my options open.)
The new site is here, by the way. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1068633794680896872003-11-12T18:43:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.628+08:00Just saw a poll on the Ninemsn website. It asked, is Australia too hard on refugees? Proportion of "no" to "yes" answers? Two to one.
Interesting. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1068418188186659852003-11-10T06:49:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.641+08:00Slatts was wondering where to find these feedback for money companies. Maybe he's as skint as I am?
Anyway, best bet would be to go to this site and search the directory for places in your city or town. Don't use a keyword. Just tick the services marked "group recruitment", "group moderation", etc. You should get quite a few out of that. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1068151356621647042003-11-07T04:42:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.644+08:00For those interested in making a few bucks for buggerall effort: There are a lot of companies that specialise in "group discussions". I registered with one recently, and just scored my first gig two nights ago. Seventy smackeroonies for sitting around quacking on about soft drink. Not bad, eh? (And actually quite interesting, believe it or not.)
I'm registered with a few of these places, Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1067809585682401232003-11-03T05:46:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.647+08:00Some bloke called Simon Chapman rails against celebs like Nicole Kidman, Sarah O'hare and others for puffing on durries one minute, promoting cancer awareness the next.
I think the effort is wasted, but. You're never gonna get consistent, rational behaviour from a star. Why? Because aside from being airheads, all their actions are driven by ego, and buggerall else.
Still, at least the Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1067590245164961402003-10-31T16:50:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.653+08:00Re that crap Brown-Nettle agit-prop performance of a view days back (by the way, d'ya reckon they scored a grant for it from the Australia Council?) and the ensuing kerfuffle:
I think some people have gone a little too far with the criticism. But there was no doubt that it was a truly disgraceful display. Simon Crean - bewildered 'tard that he is - managed to acquit himself reasonably well Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1067587012410164412003-10-31T15:56:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.657+08:00Another plug: I had my home page designed for me by a talented (and patient) designer from Red Riding Web and Print Services. The website is here, if you want to have a look. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1067585738438637262003-10-31T15:35:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.661+08:00Still more cyber-anxiety. Just downloaded a free - it's always free with me, notice that? - personal firewall. No probs there, except that now I keep getting these alerts whenver I log into one of my e-mail accounts. There's a bubble that appears listing an IP address and something about "pings". I suspect some scum-sucking spammer has managed to lob some spyware into my 'puter, and it gets Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1067393821202509172003-10-29T10:17:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.665+08:00Bob Brown is arcing up about being slandered as some kind of Nazi. Considering that he and his quackolytes are so ready to condemn Howard and Dubya as fascist (and Saddam as the victim), isn't this a case of the pot calling the kettle black... or brown, or, er, green... or something?Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1067392357823997922003-10-29T09:52:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.669+08:00It must seem ironic that one of my last posts was about how I was hooked on blogging, then I wrote nothing for ages. Kathy Kinsley thought I might have been trying to give it up.
No, not in rehab. And re that: I wonder what that would be like for blog addicts ("blunkies"?). I mean, what would be the methadone equivalent? Handwritten diary entries?
Anyway, not trying to give it up. Just Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1067328585190521162003-10-28T16:09:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.672+08:00I just thought of a new word to describe the craven use of intimate associations with the famous for massive financial gain: "burrellous". Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066776591250537702003-10-22T06:49:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.675+08:00I'm feeling very inadequate today. Not only is my namesake Matt Hayden more famous and wealthy than I am, and has a more beautiful wife than I do (er, 'cause I don't have one); he is now elbowing in on my turf: writing.
Next thing I know he will have started his own blog! And if he does he's sure to rack up more hits than me. Would probably score 380 in the first hour, the bastard. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066536460373770912003-10-19T12:07:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.680+08:00It's so weird. This browser is fine for Blogger, Yahoo, Speedymail and general browsing. But for Hotmail it's stuffed. Keeps seizing up on me!
They're weird these things. Moody, capricious - like people. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066521338584836722003-10-19T07:55:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:39:33.683+08:00Iam glad this thing is still working. Didn't sleep all that well worrying about whether it would or not. I think I really am becoming way too dependant on my blogging - and PC for that matter.
And recently I've developed another cyber-related habit. It's what I would call "software addiction". (Hell, it's even got its own ready-made acronym: SADD. And how sad is that?) I buy those computerMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066482465634126082003-10-18T21:07:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.709+08:00Have been having some 'puter trouble. Tried downloading ICQ from some CD onto my PC. But it couldn't manage it. Then my main browser (Opera) bit the dust. (Well, technically perhaps not. Maybe there's some glitch out there in cyberspace.) I think some of the ICQ files elbowed out the browser files or something. Anyway, I downloaded a Mozilla one. This seems to work fine. Thank God for Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066356270483794452003-10-17T09:57:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.712+08:00Just signed up to this pay per-click search engine program. It's here if you wanna have a look. There's a permalink down below, too, just under the dating site banners. (By the way, I've already earned a whopping 3 bucks US from that Friendfinder one. Impressive, eh? Already well on the way to cyber-moguldom...)Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066351481480334992003-10-17T08:39:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.715+08:00A fine example of the leftist malevolence driving many of those shaping the minds of this nation's youth. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066350399348744032003-10-17T08:11:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.718+08:00Fluffs are no-doubt creaming their beanies over this "sheriff" line. More disturbing evidence of Bush's cowboy delusion etc.
But what exactly was Dubya's intention? I suspect that as well as communicating a strong sense of allegiance he was being mildly humorous - as he is wont to do occasionally.
Take the line: "There's nothing deputy about this relationship." It's kind of colloquial, Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066348436179386232003-10-17T07:47:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.721+08:00Saw a very slick, fascinating doco last night on political cartoonists. Crikey, I thought I was highly strung. But these blokes? Gawd. They were just full-on wired, like pubescent whippets on crack!
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066264341091330702003-10-16T08:23:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.724+08:00I just felt the need to do a shameless plug:
A few months back I bought this refurbished computer for about 200 bucks (I kid you not). The service was great (they put up with all my ill-informed, nit-picking questions without becoming remotely flustered) and I've never had any problems with it.
If you're looking for a cheap, reliable PC, this is the company. I recommend them without Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066261286162902322003-10-16T07:30:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.728+08:00Fitzy the Boofhead is arcing up again. He's so emotional this guy. He just goes for it hell for leather - and damn the bloody consequences! - like he used to on the rugger field in his youth. Quite lively and amusng, but is it, er, appropriate for the opinion pages of a major newspaper?
In this piece he cracks the shits with John Howard, wheeling out the ol' "arselicker" angle. Yet, Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066173498603067442003-10-15T07:10:00.001+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.732+08:00I clicked on a Blogger ad about how to make a few bucks blogging. I think it's more for business blogs etc, but there are some good points in the intro page.
It includes some thoughts from Jeff Jarvis, who is an online publishing guru or something: "One of the rules of marketing that I learned early in my career: segment the market until you get it small enough so that you can be the leader ofMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1066093214462616222003-10-14T08:37:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.740+08:00Watched Lateline last night. It ran a story on the killing of that bomb-maker al-Ghozi who escaped from prison when Howard was in the Philippines.
Understandably the Oz Government was pleased to learn of this small victory in the war aginst terrorism. Yet reporter Greg Jennett described its reaction thus: "The Australian Government's enthusiasm for al-Ghozi's death bordered on the ghoulish."Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065777697022213722003-10-10T17:15:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.743+08:00Even though I can't swing a cricket bat for shit - nor do I have any desire to - I'm glad that the other Matt Hayden scored a gazillion runs today. See, the more famous he becomes, the more I can cravenly milk the fact that we share the same name.
I assume you've heard of viral marketing. Well, I'm trying to employ a kind of "parasitic googling".Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065744489918650862003-10-10T08:03:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.751+08:00A question re Arnie's win: If the human shields who lobbed in Baghdad were (as at least one cyber-wit described them) "speed humps", then does that make the women who complained of Arnie's groping "goose bumps"? Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065576473203852182003-10-08T08:41:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.753+08:00Pithy summary of the major differences between Clinton and Ah-nuld re groping, etc.
Spot on. Once more, the feminist bimbos desperately trying to exploit this issue show their mean-spirited hypocrisy. (Remember their ambivalence about the Taliban?)
I can see why twisted sisters really like Gray Davis. Like so many of them he's a plausible puppy-white sap just oozing do-goody-goodness; Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065490826815165902003-10-07T09:08:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.756+08:00More bloody whining from the squitizens of Artsville...
Yesterday morning (on Nine, I think) saw John Howard (the evil one, not the good one) honking about how Seppolian shows erode our cultural identity or something. What identity is that, I wonder? Oh, that'd be the dull, unimaginative, bullshit-rich PC one that he and his mediocre mates think is good for us and have been ramming down our Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065431626851791072003-10-06T16:21:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.761+08:00This sheep ship controversy is really shitting me - particularly the attendant posturings of all these bloody fluffs. Here they are, squawking up a storm about the live sheep trade, which they define as a cruel and inhumane. But you can be sure that most of these squits would be equally shat off about our border protection policy (especially the detention centres) which they also define as Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065315080612560002003-10-05T08:36:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.765+08:00Here's a bizarre story about some self-aggrandizing mayor in Spain who has passed a law that the blokes have to stay home on Thursday evenings to play house-hubby in the interests of "equality".
Not that unusual. These nutty "quirkies" appear from time to time. What's really interesting is the story's title (presumably written by a Sun-Herald staffer). It defines the totalitarian, Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065133559878288872003-10-03T06:18:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.767+08:00No blogging today (er, except this one). Coupla work-blokes in ripping out my old wafer-thin windows and replacing them with some double decker big bastards. This is welcome, as I'm right under the flight path into Sydney airport, and the noise of descending jets is shockin'.
(Although, after having lived here over a year, I'm pretty accustomed to it now. Maybe the noise reduction will be Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065014443576522642003-10-01T21:17:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.770+08:00Jeez, you've gotta hand it to them Frogs for sheer pettiness. They've got their Stalinist skulls shoved further up their freckles than that pyromaniac pinko Robert Corr.
Look at this sad story. Because some smart babe used the rather tragic - but nonetheless piss-funny - death of some airhead-bint-celebrity called Marie Trintignant (or something) at the clammy hands of her drug-fucked, heavy Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1065005376236335262003-10-01T18:41:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.775+08:00So anything that sports - or once sported - a penis is not welcome at "Lesfest". In that case here's one very famous Les who probably won't be attending.
Unfortunate for him, 'cause he's a bit of a fan of sapphic activities, apparently. And ironic, too, 'cause he's a damn sight more feminine than most of the chicks who will be there! Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1064883621960262762003-09-30T08:36:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.779+08:00Why do we prefer Seppolian entertainment over our own? The fluffs squeal that it's because we don't have a comparable amount of money to throw at our "talent".
Crap, I say.
Even when the Seppos make shit, they do make that shit shine. Why? Because they just take heaps more care in what they do. And the writing is way superior, even in the comedies. Shows like Friends make me want to Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1064821381595124932003-09-29T15:39:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.783+08:00Just downloaded this entire blog onto a floppy, hoping to one day re-jig the less vitriolic, more whimsical bits for a book, and/or comedy show. Did a word count, and it came to over 30 000.
Crikey, I have been a busy boy! Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1064450809072418292003-09-25T08:44:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.786+08:00Yikes. I'm being cyber-stalked! New Age uber-fluff Derek Sapphire has racked up a whole series of posts about me. (Crikey, he might sick his animal companion Jocelyn on me again! I'm still recovering from the last attack.) Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1064448243247858832003-09-25T07:58:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.789+08:00I'm getting sick of all this controversy about sheep ships bound for the Middle East. Those bloody livestock should consider themsleves lucky, I reckon. Hell, if I were given a free, all-expenses paid cruise of the Indian Ocean I wouldn't be complaining.
Come to think of it, the fact that I'd have to save for months - if not years - to pay for such a trip makes me damn angry. It's Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1064446227261722122003-09-25T07:02:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.792+08:00Just another thought on flag burning: If, as pettifogging plonkers like Robert Corr love to say, the flag is "just a piece of cloth", then why do they go out of their way to burn it? If they are simply overcome with the need to publicly immolate pieces of cloth, then why not use tea-towels? Or, even a tea-cosies? Heaps of them at a "peace" rally, found sitting atop the hollow bonces of the Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1064364272080512512003-09-24T07:56:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.796+08:00There's an interesting post by the Yobbo (found via Slatts). It refers to Robert Corr's bizarre justification for flag-burning:
"At least the flag burners recognise the potency of the flag as a symbol of Australia's democracy and freedoms. The burning flag represents the incineration of Australia's democratic values, be it by our treatment of asylum seekers, our participation in the Iraqi warMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1064277350906137022003-09-23T08:30:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.800+08:00You may have heard of all those poor sheep stranded at sea, and the ruckus over what to do with them. I can't help but see parallels with another pack of dumb, conformist and hopelessly lost creatures. The suggested humane solution to the "death ship" crisis could be used in their case too, I reckon.
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063884072154418372003-09-18T19:19:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.806+08:00Finished watching Mulholland Drive on video today.
David Lynch is not a genius. He's a complete tosser.
That's all I have to say on the matter. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063883847018844632003-09-18T19:12:00.000+08:002010-04-28T21:46:21.812+08:00On checking my previous entries for errors I noticed I did get a tad florid and alliterative in the one about the history wars and Stalinism (see last line). Hell, if I were a leftie and the academic I was referring to was one of those dreadful "neo-conservatives", I might have scored a grant from the Australia Council for it! Still, I'll leave it up there anyway for blogger posterity. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063882922474851752003-09-18T18:58:00.000+08:002003-09-18T19:02:02.656+08:00Always knew I had my finger right on the ol' zeitgeist. Am I a cyber-savvy hepcat or what! Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063803234690890142003-09-17T20:53:00.000+08:002003-09-23T08:44:04.426+08:00Stuart Wackintyre asks: Who plays Stalin in our history wars?
Er, you do pal. You're the one with leftist ideology. You're the one with the numbers (ratio of fluffs to RWDBs: about 20 to 1). You're the one using taxpayers' bucks to tell the story you want to impressionable whippersnappers (Windschuttle funds himself). You're the one with the theory that "everything's political", and that Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063586997304663562003-09-15T08:43:00.000+08:002003-09-18T19:33:16.570+08:00Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are separating, apparently.
Typical celeb behaviour: They get together to get heaps more exposure. Then they break up because they got, er, too much exposure.
Dunderheads.
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063497039847882392003-09-14T07:48:00.000+08:002003-09-18T19:10:48.603+08:00Shirly MacLaine has suffered a slipped disk. Wonder what caused it? Maybe it was an over-zealous butt-probe from one of her little alien pals...
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063375378217364622003-09-12T21:58:00.000+08:002003-09-12T22:10:17.106+08:00If you want some unequivocal thoughts on the significance of 9/11 and the case for for whupping Osama's ass then have a look at that day's posts and links on Bellicose Women. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063369996573583122003-09-12T20:02:00.000+08:002003-09-14T07:57:02.636+08:00Just read on Evil Pundit's blog that the Dalai Lama was subtly pro (or at least not anti) the invasion of Afghanistan. Such an inversion of the Buddhist stereotype reminded me of an experience I had quite a while back...
It was during my SNAG phase. If I wasn't bursting into tears of life-affirming joy I was hugging anything with a pulse. One day I saw a bloke with a shaven head sitting at a Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063330160656505232003-09-12T08:47:00.000+08:002003-09-12T09:36:53.983+08:00Was going to post something last night about September 11 (it's now the 12th here in Oz), but couldn't get around to it until now. Part of the reason was that I was so damn pissed off - pissed off about how so many people still haven't twigged that what happened then was a truly terrible crime against humanity, and that the reflection on and remembrance of it is not egotistical and Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063067599770014932003-09-09T08:33:00.000+08:002003-09-09T08:35:50.563+08:00As the second anniversary of the September 11 attack approaches, the media keep running stories on its historical significance, changes to the American psyche etc. One of the things I've noticed is that whenever it's mentioned, it's described more often than not as a "tragedy" or a "disaster" rather than a "terrorist attack" or "act of mass murder" - which are far more accurate descriptions. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1063065200282466512003-09-09T07:53:00.000+08:002003-09-09T07:55:51.863+08:00Still on the subject of good blog directories and resources, here's another one. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062811362052322042003-09-06T09:22:00.000+08:002003-09-06T09:24:46.063+08:00Great to see the Aussie blogs tracker up and running again after what appeared to be a slight glitch. It's a fantastic resource.
It's here if anyone has come in from an overseas link and is interested in finding other Australian blogs. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062639393067408962003-09-04T09:36:00.000+08:002003-09-04T09:49:46.173+08:00Watched Lateline last night. There was a fascinating debate between fluffy wuffy quackademic Stuart MacIntyre and RWDB Keith Windschuttle. Near the end of it the fluff did what they always do, which is to invoke emotionalism and try to turn the whole thing into a sensitivity competition, accusing Windschuttle of lacking empathy.
The Death Beast made mincemeat of that argument by pointing out Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062551215325713342003-09-03T09:06:00.000+08:002003-09-03T09:10:38.953+08:00I found this great piece about the long term, "big picture" reasons for invading Iraq via the excellent Bellicose Women. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062511638862041482003-09-02T22:07:00.000+08:002003-09-04T09:50:33.383+08:00I keep reading articles about this new TV show called Crashburn with Catherine McClements in it. The phrase "he said; she said" features in most cases. My first reaction: "Er, Catherine McClements is a she?"
Still, it has to be better than that other sack of televisual tripe The Secreted Glob of Pus. I should be thankful for small mercies, I suppose.
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062473097349579642003-09-02T11:24:00.000+08:002003-09-02T21:51:32.740+08:00Today's Mourning Feral has a great letter from Helen Darville re Paul Sheehan's dissection of Manne and Co's craven gang-attack on Keith Windschuttle:
"Having experienced 'reputational rape' at the hands of Robert Manne and friends, I would like to commend Paul Sheehan for coining such an accurate description of the tactic.
"Manne's favoured adjective for yours truly was 'strange'; it seems Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062378372265704242003-09-01T09:06:00.000+08:002003-09-01T09:08:18.973+08:00This is Glenn Reynolds' site meter. Jeez, do I feel inadequate.
I swear I'm gonna catch up! (Er, but by the time I do, I think the solar system may well have disintegrated into a vast amorphous fog of nano-particles...) Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062336902949917942003-08-31T21:35:00.000+08:002003-08-31T21:35:02.926+08:00Just got a hit from this Google search: "tim freedman wanker".
Hardly surprising. The two terms are almost interchangeable. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062290114057294022003-08-31T08:35:00.000+08:002003-08-31T08:43:50.913+08:00Ben Lee really is an annoying little shit. In this story about his new fillum (which is about a youngster who rebels against his hippy parents by being a real square - wasn't that the central hook of Family Ties?) he's quoted as saying:
"I was sitting on the plane from Nashville the other day and I had my journal in front of me because I was going to write my dreams in it... I had some Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062288638323712922003-08-31T08:10:00.000+08:002003-08-31T08:10:38.323+08:00Just saw Peter Garrett quacking on about saving the Murray on the Insiders. The thing that struck me about him was his unremitting intensity. It was like his words were all being shot out of a high pressure hose!
Some people may think that this is a great quality, but I see it as dangerous. People who are too passionate just can't think straight, let's face it. If you're talking about the Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062250103925053562003-08-30T21:28:00.000+08:002003-08-30T21:30:20.380+08:00Just a note to say I have another blog running. I post there occasionally. (Last one was two minutes ago.) Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062248153623265662003-08-30T20:55:00.000+08:002003-08-30T21:03:17.856+08:00When a woman murders four of her bubs over a decade, she's not "evil" or even "bad". No, it's all because she has a "disorder".
Here's another poor person with a similar "disorder".Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062165303132786712003-08-29T21:55:00.000+08:002003-08-29T21:56:52.873+08:00Most lefties I know just act like they're fifteen. But this lefty outdoes them all. He is only fifteen! Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062161845721788042003-08-29T20:57:00.000+08:002003-08-29T21:10:23.603+08:00Just noticed on the Yahoo site that the sequel to the top horror flick Jeepers Creepers is out. I'll definitely have a squizz when it hits the local screens.
Again, I do apologise for being so brazenly commercial, but I thought I'd mention this because I did see the original just recently on video. It is truly unique (although it does get a bit silly at the end). Also, it stars one of theMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062158526786624262003-08-29T20:02:00.000+08:002003-08-29T20:04:14.396+08:00I've just whopped up a couple of affiliate banners (left, and down below). I know the blognascenti will look down on this, but hell, I need the bucks. Seeing as I made a whole two of them from a banner I had on my Geocities home page, I figure that I might as well try it on this one, since I'm getting more and more hits. You never know, I might make another four dollars. Then I'll really be aMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1062030082534517522003-08-28T08:21:00.000+08:002003-08-28T08:30:18.820+08:00Good article on "quagmirism" from Miranda Devine.
Another thought on the use of that word:
There are heaps of brutal, long-running conflicts going on all over the world (particularly in Africa), in which many thousands of people have been killed. Aren't these also "quagmires"? Yet the fluffs never seem to use this term to describe them. It's usually "civil war" or "ongoing ethnic conflict"Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061898964517207912003-08-26T19:56:00.000+08:002003-08-27T09:47:44.940+08:00I thought I was a crank, forever acing up about the thought police and all. But there's a blogger called "Birdman" who puts me to shame in the shat-off-ness stakes. He has it in for bathmats:
"I abhor bathmats and toilet mats. Not that there is anything intrinsically wrong with these harmless inanimate objects. Indeed, they serve a great purpose in catching drops of water and pee.
"What I Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061814865301477602003-08-25T20:34:00.000+08:002003-08-25T21:04:09.130+08:00Now this is interesting. Due to the constant, strident efforts of self-described refugee "advocates", children will now be "released" from detention. But why do they use this particular term? Isn't it just as accurate to say they are being separated from their parents.
What are the kids' thoughts on the matter? Do they think of it as liberation? Well, the article contains what might be a Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061808961153702292003-08-25T18:56:00.000+08:002003-08-25T19:03:24.330+08:00James Morrow, who has recently returned to blogging after a long absence, wonders why the following comment about the planned "Syringe Festival" has been left up on the Sydney Indymedia site:
"Having lost much of my life to addiction I cannot agree with the concept of celebrating such an insidious disease.
"While the NT drug laws are certainly draconian and an invasion of civil rights, the Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061783101858843272003-08-25T11:45:00.000+08:002003-08-25T11:51:12.793+08:00Poor Slatts has been having worm trouble of late and intends to inject his 'puter with some cyber pest control.
Reminded me of my early days of being online: See, I had a similar infestation of my e-mail account. Being a newbie, I tried Tequila as a cure. That always kills 'em stone dead, I thought - although this cheerful little bastard does seem to be the exception to the rule.
AnywayMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061777307642599782003-08-25T10:08:00.000+08:002003-08-25T10:13:08.896+08:00Being fascinated with the paranormal (maybe because I'm abnormal?) I found this site (located via Lucid Psyche) particularly interesting. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061698868093417312003-08-24T12:21:00.000+08:002003-08-24T12:24:04.653+08:00So that catastrophic virus that recently ran amuck through the 'net was actually a sexually transmitted disease!
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061629407269276602003-08-23T17:03:00.000+08:002003-08-23T17:14:21.483+08:00Just found a great site via Bitchin' Monaro. It's called Quizilla. I just answered the questionnaire titled, "Which World Leader Were You in a Previous Life?".
Turned out I was Elizabeth 1. Somehow, I just knew. I'm just so in touch with my feminine side... Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061559516675044182003-08-22T21:38:00.000+08:002003-08-22T21:40:23.423+08:00I have just downloaded an Opera browser (a freebie on a CD from a mag I bought). I know this sounds like an ad or something. But I've got to say, it's pretty damn good. Works really well on this clunky ol' Windows '95 'puter I've got. Really fast; really smooth.
(Crikey. I'm becoming a browser afficianado! Before I know it I'll be gas-bagging about HTML.) Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061523001759604272003-08-22T11:30:00.000+08:002003-08-22T11:40:50.880+08:00Still on the subject of rights and responsibilities: Theodore Dalrymple has written a brilliant opinion piece revealing the stupidity and moral cowardice behind awarding several hundred grand to an incurable dipso and bong-suckler who murdered someone and then blamed the state.Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061427192612105722003-08-21T08:53:00.000+08:002003-08-21T08:59:24.790+08:00For people who want to discover a whole new bunch of cyber-cranks here's a really good list. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061378635449983642003-08-20T19:23:00.000+08:002003-08-21T08:54:27.900+08:00Rachel Lucas is a great humorist. She can make me laugh out loud. Her vivid description of her discovery of some mummified grasshoppers is a cack. (There are photos, too.)
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061341965921108312003-08-20T09:12:00.000+08:002003-08-21T16:44:37.303+08:00Great article by Janet Albrechtsen in today's Oz. In it she proposes that we should be the first nation to have a bill of obligations as well as rights.
I like that. And I'd like to add another suggestion: that if and when we make it law this new charter should be expressed in straightforward colloquial language instead of that 'orrible opaque lawyer-speak.
So, the introduction might readMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061174262005719092003-08-18T10:37:00.000+08:002003-08-18T10:45:24.956+08:00Since every other damn blogger in Australia has gone to Movable Type and has comment boxes (and something called "trackback" - what the hell does that mean?) I'm feeling very inadequate indeed.
I thought of going there myself, so I had a look at the site. There's all this stuff about scripting and "perl" or something and it's very intimidating. Plus I have Windows 95 on my home PC. (Does thatMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061124389783691882003-08-17T20:46:00.000+08:002003-08-17T20:46:29.790+08:00If you look in the links section below, you'll see a little "b". That's for the Blogsnob site, which uses an innovative method for advertising blogs. Will be interesting to see how many hits I get from it. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061089233482468672003-08-17T11:00:00.000+08:002003-08-17T11:05:18.883+08:00Addendum to last post: The thing that really annoys me about today's feminists is their pettiness and passivity. I've always believed that the point of feminism should be to encourage independence and individualism, not create a whole generation of blushing violets, cowards and victims so delicate that their whole world could be torn asunder by the use of an "inappropriate" term, joke or suffixMattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1061032742402171962003-08-16T19:19:00.000+08:002003-08-16T21:44:15.593+08:00Gawd, these fluffs are just beyond parody...
So this dopey, hairy-backed sheila has been charged with extortion (a major crime) and these pinheads are still squittering about the ramifications for chickdom resulting from an offhand comment by some bloke who had nothing to do with the bloody event in the first place!
I mean, have a look at this pettifogging piece about those two words.
The Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1060918136649624262003-08-15T11:28:00.000+08:002003-08-15T11:35:27.810+08:00Gawd. Derek Sapphire is posting again. Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1060914660214903212003-08-15T10:31:00.000+08:002003-08-16T18:13:05.430+08:00I'm gobsmacked by all this hysterical reporting about the growing list of so-called "victims" of Warney's lechery.
Crikey, even I have received lewd SMS messages from him. Why make it look like his tacky behaviour is some sort of disturbing revelation?
It's the chicks who are the real worry. They're all out to make money off the poor dope. Why isn't that the story?
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1060910227063125792003-08-15T09:17:00.000+08:002003-08-16T18:15:29.220+08:00The cable channel Sci Fi has cancelled all Schwarzenegger movies in the lead-up to the California elections. "We're pulling our Arnold marathon in deference to the electoral process. We wanted to level the playing field in California," said Kat Stein, a spokeswoman for Sci Fi.
Weird logic, eh? Wouldn't many of these ultra-violent movies be a liability, not an asset in his run for office?
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1060654114529350312003-08-12T10:08:00.000+08:002003-08-12T10:11:56.530+08:00One of my duties in my "real" day job is to distribute flyers all over Sydney. (You know : junk mail - the stuff that really pisses off ferndamentalists. That's part of what actually makes it enjoyable... he, he!)
Since I was already doing this I thought I could promote my site and blogs, as well as those of other cyber-cranks, with flyers listing URLs. I've been doing it for several weeks Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1060569269488220002003-08-11T10:34:00.000+08:002003-08-12T10:15:40.516+08:00Apparently some cosmonaut in space has married his sweetheart down on earth. As the story states, they plan to honeymoon here in Oz. Yeah, she'll be staying in a hotel in Melbourne and he'll be in some tent way up in Arnhemland.Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1060312834289929662003-08-08T11:20:00.000+08:002003-08-09T20:51:31.706+08:00That hen-hugging squawker is at it again. As reported in today's Feral: '"When you're fighting barbarism and terrorism I think you need to be careful not to descend to barbaric acts yourself," Senator Bartlett told ABC radio.
"In my view the death penalty is a barbaric act that we need to oppose in all circumstances."'
Assorted leftie ear-ring tuggers will be reading Fartlett's words, nodding Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1060002130610598212003-08-04T21:02:00.000+08:002003-08-13T14:16:30.380+08:00Watched Media Watch tonight. Marr had a go at the commercial stations' exploitation of the obesity epidemic.
The old anti-capitalist angle - that those evil drug companies and weight loss gurus use commercial TV to promote their products - was wheeled out yet again. Well, knock me down with a feather! Drug companies trying to make a profit through the teev! Who would have suspected it?
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1059707232542367232003-08-01T11:07:00.000+08:002003-08-11T10:28:48.770+08:00Had a brush with the law (of nature) yesterday. It was pretty scary. Reminded me of just how fragile this civilization caper actually is.
I was at Burwood station, and nipped into the loo for a tinkle. As I was washing my hands there was an almighty thwock-doing! on the door, followed by some Neanderthal grunts and groans. A couple more thwock-doings followed.
I assumed the gorilla outside Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3960436.post-1059352475174939692003-07-28T08:34:00.000+08:002003-08-01T11:26:06.213+08:00More thoughts on "sponsorship" of arty wankers: If you go here, you'll see a site for a Freo street performer festival. You'll notice the Smoke Free WA logo in the top right hand corner. Obvious question: "Does this guy look like a non-smoker?"
On another page you see some of the other performers. There's a reminder: "Buskers do this for a living. Please remember to show your support."
Mattnoreply@blogger.com0