Whatever it takes..

Oh Wasabi Pea
You are a pulse in unidentifiable yellow crunch
Many have laughed at your innocuous form
Many have paid the price for their arrogance as
The pain of a million tiny samurais invaded their nose.

You are a warrior in a land of legumes

Academic Fetish..

The wonderful "The Wrong Side of Capitalism" provides this wonderful report on Žižek’s wedding. It includes the following line:

"Apparently, Žižek got cold feet and fled just before the wedding. Luckily, his fiancé’s parents are lacanians, so they sent some heavies to make sure Žižek didn’t give up on his desire"

This makes me feel better abort my rather deformed SOH.

He also appears to be doing public lectures in the UK, in case one needed more encouragement to run away to Europe. I hear Ljubljana is nice this time of year..

Real news always happens elsewhere..

From the Gazet Van Antwerpen:

Een van de zilverkleurige pruiken die de Amerikaanse popart-kunstenaar Andy Warhol placht te dragen heeft donderdag op een veiling in New York 10.800 dollar (8.600 euro) opgebracht. Verwacht was dat de pruik tussen de 4.000 en 6.000 dollar zou opbrengen.
Twee door Warhol gemaakte polaroid-foto's, een van Muhammed Ali en een van Mick Jagger, gingen voor nog meer geld van de hand: respectievelijk 19.200 dollar en 15.600 dollar. De polaroid van Muhammed Ali is door Warhol ondertekend.
Een zwarte cocktailjurk die Marilyn Monroe droeg in de film The Misfits bracht 66.000 dollar op, een lange hermelijnen mantel die ze in 1957 droeg 50.400 dollar.


I'm not sure if it's funnier that the Dutch word for wig is "pruik" or that someone bought one of Warhol's old wigs for 10.8k. What on earth would one do with an old, ratty, Andy Warhol wig?

Shine on you crazy Democracy

(n.b. the following post contains unapologetic Howard bashing, if this is illegal where you live (sedition, i'm looking at you) please visit here)



The Federal Government's controversial electoral legislation has been passed by Parliament. The changes include closing the electoral roll earlier, banning prisoners from voting and increasing the threshold for disclosing donations. The legislation was opposed by all non-government parties.

cvm: Ooh, my favourite part was when they decided that 16 committees with Mixed chairs should be changed to ten with Coalition chairs. Evokes the most wonderful air of abuse of powers..

eurovladd: I love the smell of autocracy in the morning.

cvm: Oh and did you see the article which suggested that the government may have *gasp* won the election *gasp* based on the Tampa incident? I thought it was because they were all so charming.

eurovladd: *I* love how the government just doesn't even care anymore about pretending and just comes out and says "yeah, Tampa won us the election".

cvm: It's very "we're bad, and we're ok with that".. i think they've watched too much Dr Phil.

eurovladd: I look forward to the PM Press Release that's just "Dear Australia, Fuck you, Affectionately, Johnny H."

cvm: Didn't we get that one the first day after the last election? It may have been coded but i definitely read those promises to "not let the majority go to their heads" as a promise to stick it to each and every Australian.

eurovladd: I think the little turd had his fingers crossed behind his back.

sunburnt country vs. the rising sun

Two recent developments that are well overdue:

1. Australia does well in, and gets behind, a sport played by more than just our colonial brother and sisters
2. The word Kaiserslautern enters the Australian vocabulary.

Now if only people would start pronouncing Guus correctly. Surely the man deserves that much.

Specific Pollution..

After much pondering i have stumbled upon a solution to what appear to be the governments major woes: excise the ACT. It can then be our new dumping ground for refugees and gay couples who *gasp* want something resembling the rights that even Lleyton Hewitt posesses. As a capital city it's been remarkably unsuccessful if even our PM (widely aknowledged as one of the least interesting social specimens on the continent) won't live there.

The ACT: It's the people that John Howard rejects that make him the best.