The Journal
Entertainment
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Beauty from Dust
This is neat. Scott Wade is an American artist who wanders around supermarket car parks looking for dirty cars. What he finds is dust. These are samples of what he leaves:
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Alex Anderson, Rest in Peace
One of my wife Kathy’s relatives was Alex Anderson, the creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle. I have never visited the US, and am sorry I never had the chance to meet him. Alex was one of the…
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What’s Wrong With Machete
I like a good action movie. I suspect that the action movie demographic is primarily us rednecks. Liberal hippie types seem to like nancy movies like The English Patient. I watched that. I even tried to…
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Stephanie Rice Loves Big Brother
Seeing Stephanie Rice sobbing her way through an apology for using the word faggot, acknowledging her dreadfulness, her betrayal of the Soviet everyone’s trust in her, and affirming that she really did love big brother gay people…
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I Can’t Wait Not to See This
I really enjoyed Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy, starting with ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,’ and I really enjoyed the Swedish film version. It was well acted, perfectly paced, and captured the atmosphere of the book brilliantly.…
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A Laugh for a Long Day
Phew! It has been a long couple of days – back from Bruce’s funeral, trying to catch up at work. It’s good to be busy, but this is getting ridiculous. Anyway, a couple of totally tasteless…
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Dumb Headlines
My brother David sent me these, and I though they were worth sharing: Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter Got to admire those zombie firearm skills Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert…
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Clever and Creepy
Lots of news about the 6th ROBO ONE GATE Biped Robot Competition. A few videos there, but this one is my favourite: Definitely more impressive than Roxxy the sex robot, and probably cheaper:
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Our Poofters are Better Than Their Poofters
I don’t know where I heard that phrase. I think was in a blokey discussion of the arts – Australia versus the US. Wherever it was, the consensus amongst the blokes was that our poofters were…
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Toddler Rules
I saw this a few years ago, but came across it again today and thought you might enjoy it: Toddler Property Rules If I like it, it’s mine. If it’s near me, it’s mine. If I…
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Darwin Awards
The 2009 Darwin Award winners have been announced. These are given to people who have done the gene pool a favour by removing themselves from it. I know it is not fair to laugh, but you…
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Crazy
Just a little music to end the day. One of my all time favourites, and the archetypal Patsy Kline song:
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Top 20 Highest Grossing Films
An interesting list of the top money-making films. Avatar has made it into the top ten in just two weeks. This makes two films by James Cameron in the top ten – Avatar and Titanic. Of…
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More Advice For Tiger
via Hyscience Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Can he recover as a person? Brit Hume says it depends on his faith – what he needs is forgiveness and redemption. Brit’s answer: Think about what the…
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Avatar Part Two
I went to see James Cameron’s movie Avatar last night. It is everything I said it would be. It is courageous greenies in touch with nature, beating back the greedy Tasmanian loggers. It is Dances With…
