I’d rant at greater length but pleasingly that would be fairly redundant.
Federation Square.
9am.
Tomorrow.
Category Archives: Current Affairs
John Fowles Dead
Victory for the Trysting Fields campaign!
UPDATE: The post cited above just got linked by the BBC!
Filed under Books, Current Affairs, Neurocam, People, Whack
Screw The Troops
I’m with American Guy. This “I oppose the war but I support the troops” stuff is bullshit.
I don’t support the war, and moreover I don’t support “our” troops.
They chose to join the army. How very unfortunate for them (and their loved ones) that they were stupid enough to voluntarily sign up for a job which routinely involves being sent to oil-rich middle eastern countries and getting shot, blown up and generally given a hard time by pesky locals who won’t get with the program. My heart bleeds. Screw the troops.
Filed under Current Affairs
Is It Just Me, Or..
..are we seeing more completely catastrophic natural disasters than we used to?
Filed under Current Affairs
To: Amanda Vanstone (minister@immi.gov.au)
From: Operative Pulat
Subject: Time to go, Mandy
Date: 7 October 2005 6:06:16 PM
Dear Senator Vanstone,
I write in reaction to a story featured prominently in this morning’s edition of The Age concerning the report of the Commonwealth Ombudsman on your Department’s execrable treatment of Ms. Vivian Alvarez Solon.
I thought I had reached a point where nothing a senior representative of the Federal Government did could surprise. But I confess the arrogance and irresponsibility displayed by you in response to this seemingly damning report astonishes me.
Even by the abysmal standards we have become very accustomed to from the Federal Government and the Federal APS in recent years, both you and your Department are a complete disgrace. That you, your colleagues and your superiors all seem to regard it as appropriate for you to try and tough out this latest DIMIA scandal can only be described as surreal.
It’s time for you to resign, you blind, heartless bitch. Failing that, I sincerely hope you die painfully and soon. That is, in my view, the very least you deserve.
Yours in contempt and disgust,
Operative Pulat
Filed under Current Affairs, Whack
Former Operative Cronin To Be Hit By Hurricane
Steve Cronin is stranded in Houston Texas, which is just about to be hit by Hurricane Rita.
Bad things have a way of happening, don’t they?
He promises regular updates.. as long as the power holds out.
And he has audio!
UPDATE – And video!
Filed under Current Affairs, Neurocam, People, Weblogs
Look, It’s My Earthly Fortune
Not including 5c coins and the $1.62 in my bank account: eight dollars and thirty cents.
What should I spend it on?
I get paid tomorrow, and I’ve enough food stashed for tonight. I was thinking maybe stuff for breakfast (milk, bread, eggs – that kind of thing) but that’s so mundane, and I crave novelty.
As advised at Chez Rorschach, my position on the Big Brother question: Vesna was robbed, but our maturity and commonsense as a nation will prevail tonight when Tim, quite easily the least obnoxious BB contestant ever, emerges rightly victorious.
(UPDATE – I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: there’s something wrong with the world. I don’t know what it is, but I feel it – like a splinter in the back of my mind, driving me mad..)
Filed under Current Affairs, Domestica, Neurocam, Photos, Weblogs
Crusader Seeks Tamagotchi Ban
Via refused-classification.com.
South Australian No Pokies MP Nick Xenophon said it was outrageous that a toy marketed at children aged four and over featured a pokies-style game.
Mr Xenophon wants the toy banned or at least given an R rating by the Office of Film and Literature Classification.
[Note: There is no ‘R’ rating for computer games, there is only ‘banned’.]
The toy has a G rating.
“This virtual pet encourages children as young as four to participate in poker machine-style gambling,” Mr Xenophon said today.
“Kids become so emotionally attached to these toys that they grieve for them when they die.
“This version … should not be available to children.
“Research here and overseas shows that these games can turn the kids of today in to the gambling addicts of tomorrow.”
One Adelaide father had taken the toy away from his six-year-old son after becoming concerned about the pokies game, Mr Xenophon said.
Incidentally, my second generation Tamagotchi, Bodah, passed away quietly on the 15th of July. He was handsome, but otherwise undistinguished.
Filed under Current Affairs, Whack
The Neurocouncil
Operatives Rorschach and Li (note tragically melted face), and a non-blogging operative
It was a success, I think. A somewhat disappointing seven operatives showed up in person – Cat was there proverbially, and Operative Jojo sent an apologetic text message or two – but these operatives were not in themselves at all disappointing.
One I had never met but knew online. Three I had previously participated in an assignment with. Of these, one had officiated at my book burning, one I knew online, and one was half of the pair of elusive and, of course, mysterious non-bloggers who emerged from their holes – which is always good. One had discovered quite an interesting thing. (dude – email me)
A detailed report will not be made since somewhat inevitably more was said than is entirely suitable for broadcasting.
Operative “no pictures!” Reanimator and another non-blogging operative
Expect a William S. Burroughsesque audio cutup from Operative Reanimator shortly. Along with another interesting project or two.
An attempt at a collective audio blog post was made. It may require some work.
A good time was had by all.
I was a pussy and had to bail early.
Neurocam will be fine.
Everything is fine.
Relax.
Li‘s melted face is admired by a non-blogging operative and American Guy
UPDATE – American Guy & Reanimator have reports which actually cover what we discussed to some extent, if you’re interested in that. A lot of Reanimator’s is made up, though…
2nd UPDATE – Rorschach and Li have also posted reports, Li’s being by far the most accurate.
Filed under Current Affairs, Neurocam, Photos, Weblogs
Blair ‘desperately sorry’ for shooting
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he is “desperately sorry” for the death of a Brazilian electrician shot dead by London police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was killed by police at Stockwell underground station in south London on Friday.
The commission investigating his death said Mr Menezes was shot at close range eight times, not five, as originally reported.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was “desperately sorry” for the shooting.
You can tell he really means it, too. He’s really, really sorry. He feels just terrible about it. It burns him up inside. It’s been keeping him awake at night. Honest.
Tony Blair: he means it, maaaan. He’s got that whole “I’m sincere, me” thing down.
Respect.
Filed under Current Affairs, Whack
Man Shot Dead By London Police Actually Just Some Guy
Not a suicide bomber at all.
:O
Stop the violence!
Filed under Current Affairs, Whack
Lyric of the Day
“Stop The Violence” by Wesley Willis
Stop killing innocent people
Stop killing police officers
Stop shooting at policemen
Stop shooting bystanders with handguns
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop shooting old ladies
Stop beating up FBI agents
Stop killing the postal workers
Stop shooting at cops
Keep your ass out of jail
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop raping women for crying out loud
Stop killing little kids
Keep yourself out of prison
Stay the hell out of trouble
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Rock over London
Rock on Chicago
Pioneer, it’s the art of entertainment.
Filed under Current Affairs, Music
Two Over fifty die in London terror blasts
Now Britain have even more reason to be at war with it. Terror, that is.
I want a sidebar ticker that keeps track of the number of people killed as a result of recent international terrorism in Australia, the UK and America, and the number of civilians killed as a result of coalition activities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and whoever else “we’re” attacking this week.
That’s what I want.
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Katie Holmes Speed-Brainwashed by Scientology?
(Via ausculture.)
This is all a bit tabloidy (I never thought I’d link a story from Fox News except for the purposes of ridiculing it), way below the usual high standards rigorously maintained here at Trysting Fields, but I’ve long been fascinated by the bonkers sci-fi megacult of Scientology, and I’m more than a little intruiged by this report:
Sometime that week, her friends say, [Holmes] flew to Los Angeles for a meeting [ie her first] with Cruise about a role in “Mission: Impossible 3.” The meeting took place after April 11.
The next time anyone heard from Holmes was on April 27, when she appeared in public as Cruise’s girlfriend and love of his life.
Where was she during those 16 days?
Somewhere during that time, she decided to fire both her manager and agent, each of whom she had been with for years and who were devoted to her.
What’s more, according to Radar Online, Holmes was not Cruise’s first choice.
For some more routine Scieno zaniness, RO also offers this excerpt from a standard-issue COS security questionnaire, featuring wacklicious questions – some of which are presumably addressed to one’s malevolent body thetans – such as:
- Have you ever driven anyone insane?
- Have you ever killed the wrong person?
- Did you come to Earth for evil purposes?
- Have you systematically set up mysteries?
- Have you ever sought to persuade someone of your insanity?
- Have you ever smothered a baby?
- Do you deserve to have any friends?
- Do you deserve to be enslaved?
- Have you ever castrated anyone?
- Have you ever zapped anyone?
- Have you ever had a body with a venereal disease? If so, did you spread it?
And my favourite:
- Have you ever tried to make the physical universe less real?
I heart The Church Of Scientology. Just keep it far, far away from me.
Filed under Current Affairs
Informing (you of) Your Choices
Indispensable Australian censorship news & reference site Refused Classification has a transcript of the Office of Film & Literature Castration Classification‘s Des Clark being grilled in Senate Estimates last week.
The proceedings were somewhat less colourful than usual this year, thanks to the absence of the insane and abominable Senator Brian Harradine, who is, pleasingly, unwell. But it still makes for most interesting – if irritating – reading.
Particular attention is drawn to this exchange:
Senator McGAURAN – But moving on, Madam Chair, many years ago I was involved in a movie called Salo, which was eventually banned.
Senator LUDWIG – Did you appear in it?
Senator McGAURAN – Pardon?
Senator LUDWIG – You said you were involved in it.
Senator McGAURAN – I was involved in getting it banned.
Senator LUDWIG – I see.
Filed under Current Affairs, Movies