John Brogden has been admitted to hospital with what police describe as self-inflicted stab wounds.
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What is politics coming through… I feel sorry for the poor man.
Browsing Posts published in August, 2005
Hello Boys and Girls.
That’s it. I’ve had enough. There’s only so much Mr. Nice Gus that I can handle. I’ve done very well over the past few days to not bitch about people, but this has gone FAR ENOUGH. I NEED A RANT!!!
Rant No. 1 — 10.5
After watching this pathetic excuse for a telemovie on telly tonight, I have even less respect for American doco-drama than I ever did. Its predecessor, Supervolcano, whilst slightly corny, at least had some form of believable scientific facts behind it. The drama itself was bearable, whilst we got to see the funky special effects.
But tonight just made my stomach churn. The emotive, brassy music, the heroic president, the heroic doctor saving little girl’s lives. It’s so cliched it is laughable.
But that wasn’t the worst… the worst was the complete lack of regard for any scientific knowledge, replacing it only with hyper-dramatic farce designed only to scare an already paranoid audience. Notions that they could stop a major earthquake by setting off nuclear devices, which of course would be pitiful in comparison with the forces at work under the crust. The idea that a lateral fault line could cause a 50km wide chasm, and actually submerge half a continent.
What is going on? Our population is already experiencing dire predictions of oil shortages, massive terror attacks, catastrophic economic recession, overpopulation, disease epidemics, and now we’re going to add in supervolcanoes we’re “overdue” for, tsunamis that “could flood the world”, and now earthquakes that “could destroy a continent”. What is this trying to achieve? Are people so addicted to paranoia that they’re going to let it rule their lives?
Well fuck it! If some naughty terrorist wants to destroy my bus tomorrow, if an asteroid smacks into Sydney and blows us all to smithereens, so be it. I think the best quote I’ve heard for a long time was from that immortal Australian movie, Strictly Dancing Ballroom…
Rant No. 2 — Queer mailing list propaganda
Well, this is the second thing tonight that has got on my goat. I received an email on the always entertaining “Queer_Friendly” MSN mailing list. Often I appreciate the emails, as they inform me of events that are going on around Sydney, like the UNSW Queer party next week, and the Inversion Party at Manning.
But what I got today, like a few emails I’ve gotten from them, made me almost quite mad. It was a posting that stated something along the lines as “Help fight John Howard and his Industrial Relations reforms, because you are a member of the LGBTI community, and Howard wants to kill us all”
Or something along those lines. After I read the first few sentences, I could barely be motivated to read the rest of it. Another one I saw recently was “VSU kills queers”, at the recent VSU rally.
I mean, what bullshit. What absolute utter crap. The notion that I am meant to feel victimised because of some competely unrelated issue in order to gain my support… it’s ludicrous. It’s a direct ploy to get queers everywhere all fired up… nothing boils the blood like the feeling of being hard-done-by. Of course… may I ask… just how on earth does being queer have anything to do with the Liberal Party’s new Industrial Relations policy?? I am still undecided about this policy… there has been so much propaganda spouted out from the ACTU, Howard and the media. I just want to see the actual Act amendments for myself. The ACTU I think has been begging for something like this to happen… they have to justify their existence somehow.
Anyway, back to the point. What annoyed me is the fact that it’s meant to be a queer_friendly list, not a “queer_politics” list, or a “queer_activism” list… it’s designed for inter-campus boys and girls to communicate, not indoctrinate.
Rant No. 3 — Dear old Broggers
Oh dear God. This I found out whilst actually typing up the first two. Brogden’s done it now. I hate to say it, but there goes his career.
I think there’s no excuse for ever calling someone’s wife a “mail-order bride”. It borders racism and general rudeness. And can potentially ruin a career. As I think it’s about to do.
Frankly, I have been a little worried for a long time about John Brogden. With the NSW ALP party effectively digging their own grave over the past 10 years, all he ever had to do was come up with some decent policy himself and put it forward, because people would almost jump at the chance to do something different, given the chance. Instead, he simply got on TV and said “Vote for me! I’m not Carr!”. I mean… what kind of statement is that??? With the resignation of Carr, and the rise of the before-unbeknownst Morris Iemma, I thought it would be a shoe-in the the NSW Libs. Unfortunately, Iemma has actually proven to be a much better leader than I would have thought. He has come out of the gates already at full gallop, cutting back vendor tax and doing something proactive about CityRail. Brogden, however, makes his mark by pinching journalist’s bottoms and calling Carr’s wife derogatory comments.
Maybe I should just go and do the job myself. Much less painful I think.
Hello boys and girls!!!
I’m going to do a rap here. Not the kind of rap you hear on Nova, which is slowly but surely driving me insane… I mean… what happened to that funky electronica dance music they used to play? When they started they catered to the dance / club kids, and now they’re playing… rap music noise.
Aaaaanyway.. back to where I was. A few minutes ago, I found an email from
So GET IT. Shy away from the ogre that is ScumSoft and join the Google Revolution !
I’m enjoying it so far.. has a different but altogether better feel than MSN.
*ohhhh*
I should have mentioned!
When you get it, add
stewarta (at) gmail (dot) com
and talk to meeeee!
Hello world.
I feel like such the urban professional at the moment. I’ve just
completed a day at work, and am sitting on the bus in peak hour traffic.
And, of course, I’m writing a livejournal post via email.
On a PDA.
It’s sorta nice though. I finally feel like i’m doing something useful
with my life, and whilst I abhor public transport, I’m beginning to
enjoy the fact that i can read the paper and write emails in peak hour
traffic.
One thing that I’m trying to resist however is acquiring an iPod.
However, i have a cunning plan when it comes to solving the mobile music
dilemma. I will simply buy a big SD card to put in the phone, which can
incidentally play mp3′s. One less gadget, and much less money. *taps
nose*
I do have to remind myself sometimes that I’m still a uni student and
that i have to keep studying. Why can’t it just be over, so I can be a
corparate slut without having to come home to uni assignments?
On a final note, my “no bitching” attempt is proving difficult… I was
caught out today, showing me how much of a habit I’ve formed. Even for
the sake of politics, I must keep it in mind.
Peace out all.
I’ve come to the realisation that I’m really not a nice person.
I’ve fallen into the habit of being jaded, bitchy, cynical and have found that I’ve been saying things that are getting me into a lot of trouble.
It’s not me. I used to be known as a boy wouldn’t say nasty things about anyone, and tried so hard to keep the peace even when people probably deserved a little slandering. But now I’ve found that I’m gossiping, and gossiping gets as gossiping does I’m afraid. I wouldn’t be surprised if I found out that people are saying nasty things behind my back.
As a result, I’m going to try and get through the next 72 hours without saying a nasty thing about anyone (politicians are excluded). If that works, I’m going to try and extend it another 72 hours, and again and again, until it becomes a habit.
*slaps wrist*
Hello, World.
Well tonight was my School Reunion, and frankly it was not what I thought at all.
I guessed I was a little hesitant of going tonight, fearful of finding all of my peers successful and boastful in their careers, having graduated from uni and established themselves using the Old Boys Network, as seems to be the tradition in the private school system.
The reality was quite different. Barely any of my peers had left home, except to travel the world on Daddy’s credit card. I found it difficult to find a single person who had actually graduated from uni in this country. Most of them had absolutely nothing to say for themselves from when I last saw them at school. Of course, I’m sure they would have done some interesting things, but the talk was always of “uni” and “work”. How Boring. Most of them I had no want in talking to for very long… it was a case of formalities, and then talking to their girlfriends, who seemed to have so much more to say for themselves.
I don’t know… I guess that whilst I don’t want to be competitive with them in that way, I find it relieving because for so long in my teenage I considered myself a lesser person, destined to mediocrity. I believed I was falling behind all of my peers in my woeful performance at uni. But it seems as though this mediocrity was not a singular case, but spread over a wide group of people schooled at an “elite” private school like SGS. Whilst I’m sure my peers will go onto big and bright futures, it is interesting to find that very few of them have really excelled at uni. I think it reflects greatly on the style of education offered to students… the “spoon feed” to get the results needed for the School’s HSC rank, with no attention made to study motivation, except to get through the next exam. Little care is given to career choice, with many of my brethren changing their courses half-way through, or becoming so disheartened with uni that they stop altogether.
Now this is no ad for the public school system either. Whilst the public school students I know appear to cope better at uni, I think the extracurricular activities offered from the private school system is invaluable. I think the nature of the HSC itself is a lot to blame… the concept of holding massive stressful exams with predicatble questions only encourages schools to teach only what the student needs to know to get the best marks.
But anyway, I dare not launch into a political discussion about educational policy now, for it is 2am and I am tired and scattered. I guess I needed to go tonight, but would be quite happy not to see 98% of them until 2010. They reflect a moment of my life I neither enjoyed nor wish to remember, and seeing those same people again tends to bring back the typecasts. I hear my beautiful boy snoring in the room next to me, and I realise that I’m doing pretty damn well for myself, so I will bid you all good night.
Hello, world.
It’s official. I’m sick.
Correction: We’re sick.
Adam was the first to go… high fevers last night of about 40 degrees, and today I’ve been getting sicker quite rapidly. My seemingly charmed health over the past few months has been compromised… I’ve been coughing up lungs all today, shivering, sweating, yada yada yada. All whilst being a good Florence Nightingale and looking after Adam. By the way… chicken soup is actually quite good for when you’re ill.
And all this, whilst having a massive hangover. I ended up at the Psyche Party at Wentworth (now called “Hermanns”), and got extremely trashed on cocktails and rum n’ coke. So needless to say, I’m feeling like death. The TV is set up in the bedroom, along with the heater and laptop. If I wasn’t feeling so bad, it would be heaven.
New Website Design
At least I’ve been somewhat productive whilst I’ve been at home. I’ve gotten quite sick of the layout and design of my old site, and have set to work on designing and entirely new look at feel, displayed at this site. I’ve figured out how to get Zeus to host multiple websites, so now she’s been put to work hosting 3 websites and 3 email domains. It’s good for working on two sites at once, especially when upgrading from one site to an entirely new one.
I would greatly appreciate people’s comments on whether they like the new look and feel. May I remind that it’s not completed by a long shot, and the code behind the style took me a hell of a lot of time to do.
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Hello racefans.
I have been very slack in my blogging lately. In fact, I’ve been slack all around. I can’t boast that the last few days have been productive… admittedly it has involved way too much Sim City 4, which can become quite addictive. Is it disturbing that once I’ve built the ultimate city, I then find great delight in obliterating it through fire, earthquakes, meteors, etc?
But to the more interesting and relevant stuff.
New Job!
Yes, the unofficial news is in: I got the job! So far I haven’t mentioned what job it actually is, but I can say it’s at Foxtel, and looks to be very promising. I’ve been waiting for quite some time to hear about it, and now I’m just waiting on paperwork to make it all official. I don’t think it would be a good idea to publicly say much about work… considering how google-a-ble my site is, and how many minor mishaps have occurred through people searching for names and finding my disparaging comments about them. I can say though is that it is going to start off as casual, moving up towards full-time at the end of the year, which fits in perfectly with my uni. It’s a 24/7 role, so I’m going to have a few nice night shifts. However, I hear the renumeration is good, so hopefully this will spell the end of the cash-strapped student lifestyle that I’ve enjoyed so far, but am now thoroughly sick of. As I mentioned earlier… One cannot conquer the world on minimum wage.
Gothador
There’s a new thing I’ve been getting into lately… it’s called Gothador. The idea of Massively Multiplayer RPGs has been tossed around a little, but few still get into it. With 10,000 others, you play via a php based HTML page, killing creatures, gaining experience, doing quests, getting funky swords, etc etc. It’s timed, so you can’t play continuously (or it will kill their poor servers)… which is good because unlike most games you don’t play it for 5 hours straight then get sick of it. You come back to it every 8 hours or so, which is good because you can play it before and after work, then once before bed. So here’s my rap:
Exodus
Just whilst I have the soapbox here… what on earth is going on with the State Government? I’ve just logged onto SMH to find out that Craig Knowles has left, as has Andrew Refshauge. Knowles I’m delighted about… I just wish he could have taken Michael Costa with him. As for Refshauge… Not so good, but only because it means I’m going to have to vote in a by-election next week.
It seems as though Brogden is going to have nothing left to fight when it comes to 2007. I just wish he’d come out with some interesting ideas rather than just saying “I’m not Labor”. It seems as though Iemma has beaten him to the punch with the Vendor Tax rollback, so he’s going to have to come up with something new.
As for the rest of life: it is good. Still happily with Adam, and I’ve decided to see the head doc a lot less… I think there’s a lot more he can do with his time rather than listen to me whine about my life. After all.. that’s what LiveJournal’s for!! Whilst i’m still not as productive as I’d like to be, I don’t seem to be so depressed about it all anymore.
I have my mother coming over for dinner tonight, so I had better go and start cleaning this place. Will talk to y’all soon I hope.
