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My feedreader just deleted all my feeds! can anyone recommend a good, stable client for Windows?
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All this sydney rioting - should I care?
Is it really a product of race relations and multiculturalism or is it the product of irresponsible inadequate parenting or is it just some youths being territorial attempting to exert their alpha status that turns into what we term ‘gang warfare’ which occurs every 5-10 years?
Isn’t it merely a snapshot in time?
Isn’t it the same as the rockers and the surfers all over again?
Or to be in an American “outsiders” context - greasers and socs?
I think it’s too soon to tell, Vee. I sort of agree with the “should I care” thing in that it’d be nice to keep this in proportion: nobody’s been killed, not an enormous number of people were involved, and yobs and racists are nothing new in this country.
Unless it really escalated I would certainly not call it a sign of the failure of multiculturalism, would you?
In other news, the VC at La Trobe University resigned. Questions were being asked in Parliament about the extent and expense of his overseas travel - 22 Asian cities in 2003. Well, that’s kind of what has to happen when the universities are told ot seek their own sources of income, someone has to go spruiking for it. Bill Forwood must be feeling pretty pumped right now.
I’m just glad we got our conference funding commitment from his office - came through yesterday. Though maybe we should have asked for more? Last day of work, sign anything, etc.
And it really, really sucks that all the Typepad blogs are broken!
Somebody buy Just James a Robbie Williams cd and get him out of his scroogey mood!
James McConville must have enormous amounts of free time to write all his articles - at least this one is deliberately humerous.
Mind you - sometimes I burst out laughing when I think of his pogrom against coffee and cake a few months back (not to mention the “dissent into irrelevance”).
unfortunately he’s deleted his recent greatest hits yet again from his blog. that one about the bees was an all-time classic.
Jeez again? Young Jim seems to spend as much time unwriting as he does writing.
It’s not a blog he’s got there but a bloody palimpsest.
Never fear Nabs - your McConvill needs are catered for at On-Line Opinion, where he’s come out today on the side of the scroogists: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3965
Is anyone watching Andrew Fraser on SBS at the moment? He’s appearing in “speaking in tounges” at the moment. Latest argument : racial purity leads to technological innovation…oh my
A blond James Bond?
That is so not going to work. The Bond movies are the Busby Berkley spectaculars of the late 20th/early21st century but they also need a solid persona at the centre that connects with the original mythos which is sexy English Byronic snob killer for the Great White Queen.
Daniel Craig was great in Layer Cake but he’s no Connery or Brosnan. In fact I’d judge Brosnan as the best Bond since Goldfinger.
Also Aeon Flux the movie is getting poor reviews which are basically centred around it not having enough action and having too much of a weird confusing narrative (which, let us remember, is a different beast to plot). So, it sounds good.
Aeon Flux was originally an animation from “Liquid Television” that evolved into these surreal episodes that I found fascinating. If its in the spirit of the original strange incarnation I’ll definitely go so the movie. Hopefully, it is not a lame-brain star-vehicle like the whole “Tomb RAider” franchise - but I’ve yet to hear enough info to determine whether I’ll so it, or whether I’ll fish out for the DVD of the 1995 version.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111873/
I wish to draw the attention of the commenter formerly known as Homer Paxton to this comment on Andrew B’s blog:
The author of this eminently sensible missive? One Evil Pundit.