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terryfrost at 09:16pm on 17/09/2006
terryfrost at 09:16pm on 17/09/2006After nine days out of the country, I get back and all sorts of weird shit is happening.
Naomi Robson, the person on Australian TV who looks most like a Bratz doll, is chucked out of Indonesia for hunting down cannibals without the proper visa after Channel 9 tipped off Djakarta.
Everybody starts to forget that Peter Brock was involved with a New Age scam involving the sale of energised crystals to increase the fuel economy of cars, just because he and a tree tried to occupy the same space at the same time in a low-tech transporter accident.
Suddenly Steve Irwin has gone from a none-too-bright twit best known for dry-humping wildlife to a cultural icon who got a total eclipse of the heart from a cartilaginous marine fish and had a million sad fucker saying "He died doing what he loved." Yeah, but so did Billy Sneddon and Nelson Rockefeller. Now they're flogging tickets to his memorial service as if it were a Robbie Williams concert.
I can't help thinking that New Zealand is a slightly saner place. Bro' Town, abalone fritters in the fish and chip shops, a PM with some moral credibility, a strong sense of history, the refusal to withdraw into a monocultural xenophobia... we need to do better than this, people.
Naomi Robson, the person on Australian TV who looks most like a Bratz doll, is chucked out of Indonesia for hunting down cannibals without the proper visa after Channel 9 tipped off Djakarta.
Everybody starts to forget that Peter Brock was involved with a New Age scam involving the sale of energised crystals to increase the fuel economy of cars, just because he and a tree tried to occupy the same space at the same time in a low-tech transporter accident.
Suddenly Steve Irwin has gone from a none-too-bright twit best known for dry-humping wildlife to a cultural icon who got a total eclipse of the heart from a cartilaginous marine fish and had a million sad fucker saying "He died doing what he loved." Yeah, but so did Billy Sneddon and Nelson Rockefeller. Now they're flogging tickets to his memorial service as if it were a Robbie Williams concert.
I can't help thinking that New Zealand is a slightly saner place. Bro' Town, abalone fritters in the fish and chip shops, a PM with some moral credibility, a strong sense of history, the refusal to withdraw into a monocultural xenophobia... we need to do better than this, people.
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