Sooky sooky
Reading a few blogs recently, i’m having flashbacks to primary school. More specifically, the petty little arguments that used to go on if someone [allegedly] used someone else’s glue or crayons or whatever.
20 Years pass, and we haven’t progressed very far.
Action:
Person 1 has a point of view on a particular subject.
Person 2 has a different point of view on the same subject.
An exchange takes place, promoting each view.
Counter-reasoning against the former reason is presented by each party.
Person 2 takes it public and calls for backup from the posse.
Person 1 defends themselves.
Person 1 may or may not do something dumb.
Person 2 launches another volley of munitions.
Outcome:
Person 1 looks like an immature child.
Person 2 looks like an immature child.
Might wanna put your feet back in your respective mouths now.
20 Days to go..
09.Feb.07 
Bitching, Controversy 
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Gossip gossip!
According to Canada.com:
Guess who, don’t sue! While attending last year’s Toronto International Film Festival without his actress wife and their baby, this brooding star went online and hooked-up with a hot 18-year-old guy. The actor – at the fest to promote a movie with an awfully sweet title – had his assistant get the teen to sign a strict confidentiality agreement before anything happened. The threat of a multi-million-dollar lawsuit is the only thing keeping the star-f**ked lad from spilling the beans.
Ooooooer!
After a bit of digging, I found this..
“… Heath Ledger, who lives in New York , flew to Toronto for a few hours to promote the film Candy, which North American audiences will see soon….”
And also this…
“… Patrick Wilson married a Polish actress in 2005 and just had a baby with her last year. He recently co-starred in Hard Candy, which was launched at the Toronto International Film Festival….”
50/50, Phone a friend?
21 Days to go..
08.Feb.07 Controversy, Random Comments (0)
Midsumma in Melbourne ‘2007
At the moment, Melbourne’s annual Gay and Lesbian festival, Midsumma, is now on. It’s not quite as grand as the Sydney Mardi Gras, in fact, it’s a fucking pathetic attempt but it’s better than nothing. (That’s debatable..)
The grand opening last evening was at Federation Square, and as per normal Melbourne weather, it was trying hard to rain.
Louis came into the city and met me after work, and we went for a look-see – we missed the opening last year.
Up on the stage there were many different acts, but all the ones I saw had one thing in common – they were pathetic.
We decided to head around the other side of Fed Square, out of the circus, where we could sit down on the steps.
People watching was slightly more fun, and there were certainly lots of people, from all corners of society, to watch.
I took a couple of photos, and Federation Square has this thing where you can SMS a short message to a number, and it is shown up on the billboard that is embedded in the side of the building.
I sent Louis a message. 
Then, the girl on stage here was screaming into the microphone, and I couldn’t quite make out what she was supposed to be singing but it was awful. I send another SMS off, and a few people sitting around noticed it, and I saw some amused laughs.
(P.S. Spot the asian guy with his ‘daddy’ in the pic on the left – and Louis got winked at by some fat ugly old guy, after which we quickly moved to another spot)
Pride march is on right now, where you stand along Fitzroy St in St Kilda, and watch a bunch of half arsed floats go down the road, and then you follow them to the beach and walk around doing nothing for half an hour. Oh, and the highlight could possibly be the ‘Dykes on bikes’ that lead the parade, some of them having their tits hanging out. Nice.
I didn’t go this year, I could name a thousand things that I could better spend that time on, least of all, sleep.
We may perhaps go to Carnival – aka ‘Picnic in the Park’, if we can get a group together to have a picnic, and also if it’s not raining. Otherwise that’d be pretty ho-hum as well.
Still 39 Days to go..
21.Jan.07 Bitching, Controversy, Fun, Strange Comments (5)
Monday ‘Stir-em-up’
I wrote in to mX again today, with another ‘Letters to the editor’ article.
But just for fun, I cc’d Melbourne Water, South East Water, and the Victorian Govt’s water board too.
To: talk@mxnet.com.au
CC: info@sewl.com.au, feedback@melbournewater.com.au, ourwater@dse.vic.gov.au
Here’s my submission for your paper/column.
Water levels are low, and we are being encouraged to save every drop of water we can. The Vic Govt and water companies have issued restrictions and set up phone lines to ‘dob in’ households that don’t save water.
The question remains though, do they really even care?
My quarterly (usage) bill is under $20, yet I try and save what little water I use. I shower once a day, I water once a week, I do the washing once a week.
And yet every day on my way to and from work in the city, there’s a Japanese Takeaway in Collins Place that has three taps running continuously, unused 99% of the time. (And they’re probably not the only ones).
I contacted the water company about this obvious wastage about 4 months ago and to-date, either nothing has been done, or at least, nothing has changed.
If one running tap uses approx 5 litres per minute, then there are at least 7,200 litres being wasted each day. I think that’s almost more than I use each quarter.
How many other businesses are blatently disregarding water-saving guidelines?
I don’t see why I should be saving water and all these bastards get away wasting it all.
I hope they don’t cut off my water. 
52 Days to go..
08.Jan.07 Controversy Comments (0)
Dunkin Donuts releases Holy Chocolate variety
CNN Reports: “Evangelical leader quits, denies male escort’s allegations”
‘Top evangelical leader denies Colorado man’s claim that pastor paid for sex’
- Rev. Ted Haggard quits national leadership post, steps aside from church pulpit
- Accuser cites Haggard’s support for same-sex marriage ban as motivation
- Influential religious figure also denies accusation of drug use
“I’ve never had a gay relationship with anybody. I’m steady with my wife. I’m faithful to my wife,” Haggard told CNN.
Well of course he’s going to deny it. How much support (and money) would all these ‘focus on the family’ type crackpots lose if they were to be seen as anything other than holier-than-thou?
Nothing’s proven one way or the other, yet, but i’d bet a lazy $50.00 he’s been playing chocolate starfish, and I don’t mean the music group.
03.Nov.06 Controversy Comments (0)
Gay Sex forces closure of Store Toilets
Wow, with a headline like that, something big must have happened, right? Let’s have a look..
Hmm, nothing in that article seems to be overly newsworthy, unless you count the over-sensationalisation of a rather minor story by someone who’s obviously got a deep bias against the gay community.
I especially like the bit where the writer brings children into the story, just to implant the idea that there are pedophiles lurking in these toilets waiting for a kid to enter. [sarcasm]
I’ve actually been to these particular toilets a couple of times, most memorably when I had a slight case of chicken-wrap food poisoning last year – but i’ve never noticed ANY ‘action’ going on. (Or maybe the person that reported it actually got their proposition turned down, and then decided to get even?)
I daresay that if there IS anything happening, may it perhaps be some so-called ’straight’ (married?) men looking for a bit of lunchtime action?.. Not that they’re gay or anything, I wouldn’t dream of suggesting that.
Meanwhile, Squirt.org has been around for YEARS. And if we’re looking at Sydney, it basically lists every public space, toilet, washroom and park.
That’s not to say that nothing goes on at any of these places, but I rather doubt it could be classed as ‘rampant’ by any stretch of the imagination.
If you would like a hotbed of gay cruising, join the Pitt St Fitness First – Everyone I know goes there to perve, rather than do serious workouts themselves.
*Yawn*.
03.Nov.06 Controversy, Random Comments (0)
