Comments on: Saturday Salon

By: Ms Higgins' part time double bass player and official historian

Ms Higgins' part time double bass player and official historian — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:04:00 +0000

But was Manning Clark Missy?

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:36:39 +0000

And I was about to use “Enter Manning Clark: 36th Chamber of Australian History”. Too bad.

Nihil Young

Heh.

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:20:17 +0000

Liam, I’m afraid that when Leonard Cohen gets brought up on a thread, then nobody wins.

Reminds me, re L. Cohen, back in college we used to call him Nihil Young.

But don’t let me rain on the parade — have a great time at the concert, PC and the rest of you Cohenheads, and I hope it’s a grand show.

Btw, technical note re the recent blog outage: on a mobile, the home page now appears but you can’t access the links. Don’t know if that’s a generalized problem or not, though.

Damn, and that other thread shut down before I could use “I see a little silhouetto of a Manning Clark”. Vida es sueno.

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:04:26 +0000

Nickws, I'm calling the closed thread a win.

By: Tyro Rex

Tyro Rex — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:07:56 +0000

now here’s a funny video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4

By: Tyro Rex

Tyro Rex — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:01:50 +0000

@Helen @tigtog @FDB I got about six bars in and I had to shut it off. “Ironic” or not (and we’ve been I thought post-Ironic at least 5 years), bad overproduced music, is bad overproduced music.

By: FDB

FDB — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:46:55 +0000

It pretty much has to be, TT.

If it’s still possible for that much energy to be expended on such ridiculous crap without ironic intent, than I’d be even more impressed though.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:05:41 +0000

Actually, I just did a search on him, and he has an IMDB bio that's heavily slanted towards satirical comedy, so I think this music video may just be a viral for some new project. In which case, well played sir.

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:02:37 +0000

Perhaps it was during- and post-Movember.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:41:39 +0000

Helen, that is gloriously naff. I think he missed the memo that the New Romantics trend long ago dropped off the perch. I found the switch between the Errol Flynn moustache as the hero and his Botoxed-smoothness in front of the wind machine very distracting.