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21 June 2005

Blecccch

I hate the flu.

I'd rather be in a dental office.

 

Dick Neville before he dicks you

Australia's favourite dessicated moonjuice freak has returned with another collection of jumbled paragraphs:

• Howard and Bush are Nazis
• Howard and Bush are really nasty Nazis
• Bush is going to kill the planet by firing bibles out of newly-militarised space stations
• Economic Growth is nasty

Oh, and he fills us in on the latest Greenhouse Effect Nazi American Holocaust:

Right now, villages in Bangladesh are disappearing into the sea. The warming of the Indian ocean intensifies drought in southern Africa. Low lying Pacific islands are starting to sink. Everyone knows this, because the ice caps are melting on the evening news.

Well, that settles that then. (Pacific islands are 'sinking'?)

As usual, Richard The Futurist tells us about the future:

Heads of state who reject collective solutions, such as the flawed Kyoto protocol, and the quest for a sustainability, may one day be charged with crimes against humanity.

I'd love to see the UN cabbage monkeys try that one, wouldn't you?

In the year 2030, could a third President Bush (Jeb jnr?) end up trying to stave off the clamouring masses with ballistic missiles – ones no less imaginary than the fanciful battalions of a failing Hitler. Perhaps a Laura-like Mrs Bush will be singing Stand By Your Man in the shower, as the water runs dry.

One thing we can count on – that the ever faithful ally, a bio-tech age-reversed Rupert Murdoch is still telling the inner circle that the green insurgents will soon be crushed, and oil prices will slip back to a mere $2000 a barrel any minute. But no-one is listening. Most of the White House neo-cons have already fled to their tax shelters, taking the silver. The rest are drinking the last of the wine.

Richard, I think your frontal lobe is suffering anal reflux.

 

Book review: James Ellroy's Black Dahlia

James Ellroy - the author of LA Confidential and other hard-boiled crime noir epics - is undoubtedly one of the literary world's most self-absorbed knobs (and that's really saying something).

Every one of his works has caused much pants-wetting in book reviewers worldwide, who love his hard-edged, unsentimental writing style.

I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about, and picked up this book.

It really has only one fault: Ellroy can't write for shit.

So enamoured is Ellroy by his own drool, that he spends an eternity fussing over period detail, 50's cop lingo, graphic details of sexual crimes, and pretty much everything not related to the characters (who remain dull and opaque to the very end), or the narrative (about 20 pages of story in a 380 page novel).

The lead character is so boring, so badly fleshed out, you don't give a shit about anything that happens to him, and his motivations remain a mystery throughout. The same applies to pretty much every other character too. Some of the plot twists and the final explanation are truly ridiculous.

I'd advise the guy to hire an editor, and pull his head of of his arse and write some actual stories. Except I'm never gonna read one his crappy novels ever again, so I don't much care what he does.

 

Book review: Mark Kram's Ghosts of Manila

Muhammad Ali: black icon, visionary, devout muslim, poet, street intellectual, voice of the people, civil right hero, consciencious anti-war thinker.

Yeah, right.

Try racist, serial liar, backstabber, bully, idiot, adulterer, coward, hypocrite, raving loon, stooge, publicist for murderous tyrants and bad father.

This is the impression you're left with after finishing Mark Kram's devastating polemic against the ex-heavyweight champ.

Kram, a one-time writer for Sports Illustrated who spent many hours in Ali's company, delves into the long-lasting blood-fued between Ali and his nemesis Joe Frazier. The book actually doesn't have much to say on this, other than examining Ali's bigoted, sociopathic psyche. It is more a full-frontal assault on the mindless cultural deification of Ali, a man who could not be less worthy of such worship. Ali, needless to say, happily played a part in this myth-making.

Kram's book certainly isn't perfect. He occassionally lapses into long-winded psychobabble when discussing the Ali-Frazier fights, and fails to detail the side of Ali's personality even Kram admits was "generous".

Still, it's a devastating critique of Ali mythology and his sycophantic & gullible cultural allies (Norman Mailer, he's looking at you).

Recommended.

 

Nice people

The rescue of Douglas Wood has made the leftoids on usenet go insane with rage:

Isn't it just a little odd, that Woods after being held hostage for six
weeks did not loose any weight.

At the press conference in Australia he looked grossly overweight.

Not withstanding, he did not receive any medication for his 'serious'
ailments.

He then trots out an endorsement of the Bush, Howard strategy in Iraq.

All this leaves me more than a little suspicious.

and this:

He sounded like a money-grubbing Yank on the news.

Saying "Waltzing Matilda" like a fucking idiot at random is proof enough... him
trying to pretend he's an Aussie when he's been living in California for yonks.

Lets be thankful he wasn't a U.S prisoner, where he would have been beaten,
sodomized and violated with nightsticks, stuck into human pyramids in gay
positions while blindfolded, smeared with shit and then photographed so he can
recall all these great memories.

the same fellow also said this:

I think they are all full of shit, including Wood.

"Waltzing Matilda" Wood yelled as he arrived in Australia.... what a fucking Yank.

Throw in some conspiracy theory:

Have a good look at Mr Wood. He seems remarkdly fit and healthy for a chap
who was kept in darkness and beaten every now and again for 47 days?
Wasn't staged was it?

And this:

If that dumb, fat mercenary pig does go back to Iraq, as he says he
might, how many days would he survive?

Steve Edwards brings us some more charming leftie reaction.

 

Our next Poet Laureate

Very, very deep.

 

Ann Coulter with a dick

Gibbering ultra-conservative loon Adam Yoshida - who once described homosexuals as a "threat to national security" - gives us his opinion on Deep Throat guy Mark Felt:

I hate him for what he did and I wish him, and his family which hails him as a hero for what he did, nothing but the worst.

[...]

So it is that I cannot find it in my heart to forgive W. Mark Felt for his crimes or to wish him well. So far as I’m concerned, he can go straight to hell and, with any luck he’ll be getting there sooner rather than later.

The reason for Yoshida's brain-fart? Apparently, Felt was responsible for the communist victory in North Vietnam and the Iranian revolution.

What's wrong Adam? That time of the month?

 

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