February 2010
January 2010
I’m going to be absent from tumblr for the next couple of days; going to Sydney with Kate and Simon for Laneway and to generally have fun timez. Have a good weekend, everyone!
“At the same time as anal penetration is held up in hetero male culture as the...”
– Feminist Critique of Hetero Male Culture Causes Mass MRA Hysteria (via sexisnottheenemy) (via emptythoughts) (via ninefruits)
Hot Seat on Iraq Motives - Rod Barton →
As Christmas approaches, many news reports that normally would have received close scrutiny somehow get missed. And perhaps even more so if the subject is war. So it may not be surprising that former British prime minister Tony Blair’s recent acknowledgment to the BBC that he would have gone to war in 2003 even if there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, has received little...
“Why ban small boobs? I can only assume it stems from paranoia that flat chests...”
– Now Australia Is Banning Small Boobs
The ASP’s site is down due to high bandwidth at the moment.
(via indefensible)
This internet filter is some fucking scary shit.
“You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because...”
– Ugarte, in Casablanca (via whokilled)
Random Top 5: Beatles Songs
saimagery:
blownspeakers:
1. A Day in the Life 2. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) 3. Revolution (Hey Jude single version) 4. I’m So Tired 5. Happiness is a Warm Gun
What are yours?
Nice meme.
1. Because
2. The End
3. A Day In The Life
4. Day Tripper
5. Come Together
Five is too hard so I’m listing 10. 1. I Will 2. Here Comes The Sun 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4. Rocky Raccoon...
The tyranny of distance. Also, maybe the tyranny...
indefensible:
Price of Antony Beevor’s ‘D-Day’ at Amazon.com: $21.75
Price of Antony Beevor’s ‘D-Day’ at the Borders across the road: $65.99
Both are hardcover editions.
Dunno if this helps, but it’s AUD $32.20 (w/ free postage) from Book Depository.
“Anytime I hinted that it might be a little much or if I just asked if she was...”
– Spencer Pratt (via Spencer: I’m Not in Charge of Heidi’s Body - Bodywatch, Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt : People.com)
Wow. After starting the week being impressed by something Spencer Pratt’s said, I expect to be abducted by aliens or win the lottery tomorrow.
(via clembastow)
Typical conversation in the newsagent today
Customer: Just the Sunday Telegraph, thanks.
Me: Do you want the free hat with that?
Customer: Aw yeah, alright, for my grandson.
Me: Blue or yellow?
Customer: Well, he's a boy!
Me: ...what's your point?
Customer: Well, blue of course!
Me: *glare*
Signed Advance copy of Joey Comeau's One Bloody... →
Joey Comeau of A Softer World fame is auctioning off an advanced copy of his new book, One Bloody Thing After Another, set to come out in May. 100% of the profit is being donated to Medecins Sans Frontiers.
So if you are a bajillionaire and like his writing, and feel like giving some money to a good cause, get on it! I would bid myself but the price is already USD $62 and I am heaps po’,...
Camera Obscura - Keep It Clean
I’m going to...
Google Removes Racist Site | Indigenous... →
Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views of indigenous Australians.
Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site by searching “Aboriginal and Encyclopedia” in the search engine.
He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica, a satirical and extremely racist version of Wikipedia, but was blocked from doing so.
...
We who are your closest friends
tarts:
We who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting, as a group, to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift. your analyst is in on it, plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband; and we have pledged to disappoint you as long as...
Cruise ships still find a Haitian berth →
taf:
jhnbrssndn:
Luxury liners are still docking at private beaches near Haiti’s devastated earthquake zone for holidaymakers to enjoy the water.
Sixty miles from Haiti’s devastated earthquake zone, luxury liners dock at private beaches where passengers enjoy jet ski rides, parasailing and rum cocktails delivered to their hammocks.
This reminds me of a book I read a couple of years ago,...
semisetadrift:
ninefruits:
I saw this sign and scoffed. Although I don’t know whether my scoffing was at how lame it was or I was (s)coughing because no-one in the crowd had showered in two weeks. The Sydneyfication of Melbourne’s live music scene is wrong and needs to be stopped, but can we get over bogan-rock already? Have you seen the line-up for the last gig there? It’s a barf-inducing...
“They treated each other quite differently after their night’s experiences....”
– Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Charlemagne by Christopher Lee →
So Christopher Lee (as in Saruman the White & Dracula) is making a “heavy metal concept album” based on the exploits of his ancestor Emperor Charlemagne. I shit you not.
You can hear previews at his myspace page or here. The record drops March 15 of this year. Intense.
THE LAUNCH
saimagery:
heaintgotnofriends:
The wait is over.
8pm to 1pm?
This will amuse me for a while… →
indefensible:
cankerbloxxom:
indefensible:
I call bullshit on way too many things to put them on Tumblr all the time.
ROD STEWART?! How very dare you.
OK, Post-1978 Rod Stewart. Before that, I retract the Calling of Bullshit.
Much better. I can accept that.
This will amuse me for a while… →
indefensible:
I call bullshit on way too many things to put them on Tumblr all the time.
ROD STEWART?! How very dare you.
The Musical Brain →
onetracklover:
I think this documentary explains in some way why I love music.
Do you know how hot it is?
ninefruits:
It is almost 3.30am and I just walked outside in nothing but a pair of boxer shorts and emptied a bottle of water on my head. That’s how hot it is. I mean, can you imagine such a thing? A man, half naked, at 3.30am, emptying a bottle of water on his head? It’s madness! But that is what just occurred. I would show you the evidence of this (wet hair, dewy body and what looks like urine...
“Idea for a piece: A murderer sat in an armchair in the middle of the gallery. On...”
– David Thewlis, The Late Hector Kipling
