Long time no blog.
First I was completely twitter focussed during the Brisbane flood as we all discovered a use for the medium other than screaming our reality TV disappointments and triumphs into the universe and sharing pics of Bruce Springstein's pubes. Then I was just really tired from the flood. Now I'm still tired and a bit shocked and awed at the size of Tropical Cyclone Yasi which is steaming toward North Queensland as I type.
Is it the natural order of things? Is it Global...
So last night I attended the office Christmas party of SISHA.org whom I support and am here to visit. Please don't tell anyone I work with as I have never, in my six years with the company, attended a Nova Christmas party and it is already something of a sore point.
Anyway it was nice, I had a shandy in a pint glass as I am want to do and was flying through the streets of Phnom Penh on the wings of a tuk tuk by 9pm. I am actually a night-owl by nature but due to my early working hours, I...
Boy, was I pissed off when I heard that Carrie Bickmore was doing the “Down under” segment for Oprah. Mostly, because it wasn’t me, obviously. The truth of the matter is that Carrie’s enjoyed many opportunities over the last couple of years that have made me green with envy. I’m pretty sure green smoke streamed out of my ears when I heard about this one, and I was pretty amused this morning when twitter fired up about the Mc Cafe stuff. I tweeted that I wished The Australian hadn’t...
The celebrity is an openly gay sports journo by the name of Gili Shem-Tov, and in a surprise twist revealed on the first episode of the season, she was paired with a female dancer. I'm not shocked by this development, because I remember watching as Isreal won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with "Viva La Diva" by transsexual artist Dana International. Danawent on to sell millions of albums in and is currently a judge on Israeli Pop Idol. Tel Aviv, I read today, prides itself on being...
God Kylie Minogue is ageing well. I don't mean in a self-conscious, Demi Moore kind of way. Seriously, how lame is a 47 year old woman tweeting a picture of herself in her bikini? We get it love, we got it in Charlie's Angels, we got it when you married Ashton, we get it. Lamer still is Lisa Rinna paying "homage" (or just desperately riding coattails) by tweeting herself doing the same thing. What a pair of tragic old molls.
Whatever. Anyway, Kylie is ageing just a little bit dis-gracefully....
Stop Press! I just found these two, and they got me thinking about how great the internet is. Here they are, all the way from the Philippines, playing the same game as the american kid Keenan, and that beautiful little Asian boy doing his best Pussycat Dolls in front of a pink bed sheet in the kitchen that got me started on this whole tangent. The internet's not about people with low self-esteem and no social skills talking about everything and everyone they hate, it's about kids from all over...
Or should I say, "Curtis"?
My friend TIm was shocked to the back teeth by 50's tweets (story here,) because he'd only just seen him behaving delightfully with the ladies on The View. I tracked it down, and it is quite a departure from the low-down and dirty gangsta bitch-slappin' he's serving up on twitter. I guess it's just the many moods of Fifty, and in his defence, maybe it's just an old fashioned case of knowing how to behave in front of laaaayyydeeeeees. As we know there's a time and...
I totally accept that camp kids are my weakness, but this one is taking drag to the world at the moment, lisp and all. He is actually 15 years old, and new enough to the world of internet sensations to not have a wikipedia page although wiki answers tells me with questionable authority that Keenan has some kind of dwarfism. Don't quote e on that, but I can tell you that Katy Perry has seen this and tweeted her approval to Keenan, and why wouldn't she? It's gorgeous. Please retweet if you love...
These tweets are not for the faint hearted or those who don't think it's cool for anyone to use the "n" word.
Up until recently, 50cent had a minion who handled his twitter account an it was used as a promotional tool to let all his fans know about music releases and such. Turns out no one cared, or bought any of his music so the twitter account was turned over to Fifty himself. Since then it has become quite the font of wisdom on all manner of subjects. It's an astounding read, and sure...
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I’m gonna have a go at Reconciliation.
This is my passion at the moment - The Gap. It has been for about 3 years actually, but it's taken this long for me to find someone to help me enter the world of Aboriginal Australia. I know that sounds ridiculous but honestly, it's so much harder than I ever thought it would be to meet and engage with Aboriginal people. It feels like there's disinterest and mistrust from the Aboriginal side, and I don't blame them. You can't just rock up to an Aboriginal person and tell them you want to...