I am so looking forward to The National’s new album, out in May, called “High Violet”. They previewed one of the songs from it on US TV last week, and I love this song, “Terrible Love”. Looks very promising that the new CD will be every bit as good as “Alligator” and “Boxer”.
Also in May, The New Pornographers release their new album, “Together” … judging from the one song off that has been released, “Your Hands (Together)” that sounds promising too.
According to her agent, Max Markson:
"Lara Bingle will not be commenting on her personal life,"
Thank fuck for that is all I have to say about that. Please, please stick to this promise Lara.
How stupid is it that the lead story on the news the last couple of days has been the apparent breaking off of the engagement between Lara Bingle and Australian cricketer Michael Clarke. Media has even camped outside their Bondi apartment doing live crosses during news programs.
However, I’ve got a feeling that she will eventually talk, once the price offered by one of the media outlets is right. She’s just too much of a famewhore to resist another moment in the spotlight.
It would seem that Bingle’s career and life had become just too much of a circus for Clarke to tolerate. The straw that broke the camel’s back looks to have been her decision to sell her story in response to the publication of a nude photo taken of her allegedly by former lover, AFL player Brendan Fevola, in the Womans Day magazine. While the wise decision would have been for her to lay low, and say very little about it, her decision was to give an exclusive tell all interview about what she felt, how she planned to sue Fevola etc. She would have enjoyed privacy, come across as the victim of a dickhead like Fevola having taken a nude photo of her and then circulated it around his mates. End of story – Bingle comes out of it sympathetically, Fevola pathetically. But being a famewhore desperate to remain in the public eye she had to sell her story to the highest bidder. Stupid woman!
Actually, I’m suspicious that the nude photos being made available to the magazine and the subsequent interview with the same magazine were all orchestrated by Bingle and her management to gain publicity and hopefully open up some commercial/career opportunities for her. Hopefully its backfired badly, and she fades quickly into obscurity. But I don’t hold out much hope of that … someone will figure that they can make money out of her.
Speaking of careers, what actually is she famous for? Modelling, well yes marginally, but more so isn’t it just for the people she’s been screwing – she seems to have a taste for prominent sportsmen – Michael Clarke, Brendan Fevola, supposedly also footballers Craig Wing, Benji Marshall and Greg Bird (although she denies at least some of them). She also is said to be friends with some interesting characters – colourful Kings Cross identities (usually code for criminal) and the sons of a deceased alleged Sydney major crime figure.
Wouldn’t surprise also if Clarke’s decision came about because Cricket Australia dropped a few hints about his circus sideshow of a girlfriend not being the sort of image that an Australian captain would want to be presenting (and by inference, ditch her or forget being the next captain).
We all know people who do various things to occupy themselves while they’re driving somewhere, for instance, talking on the phone, texting, fiddling with the radio/CD/MP3 player, eating, drinking, fixing up the makeup, etc etc. Whatever, it helps pass the time, and helps them get ready for wherever it is they’re going.
What about trimming your pubes? Ever thought of that as something you could do while driving?
Megan Barnes, a 37 year old Florida woman, obviously thought it was something she needed to take care of while driving along. It was obviously distracting, as she ran up the back of another car while doing it.
Not only that, she was doing this while in the car with her ex-husband on her way to visit her boyfriend (somehow I think there’s got to be trailer parks involved here). Apparently the ex was steering the car, from the passenger seat, while she was doing her gardening.
Patrol officers say they determined that in addition to this bit of "landscaping" behind the wheel, Barnes was already driving with a suspended license, just one day after she was convicted of driving under the influence. She was charged with reckless driving, driving with a revoked license, leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, and driving without insurance. Trooper Gary Dunick, describing what Ms. Barnes was thinking, explained,
"She said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be ready for the visit."
And no, its not because I was watching porn. An episode of the ABC TV show “Hungry Beast” generated a bit of controversy this week with a story about the (soft) porn industry’s airbrushing of female genitalia, which gave an unrealistic image of what was “normal”. Soft porn magazine publishers claimed they were forced to airbrush pictures due to classification rules which deemed explicit depictions of female genitalia to be inappropriate. So all they tend to show [...] Continue Reading…
We talk often about setting expectations. For example at work what is our project going to deliver? Is it going to be on time? On budget? Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong was Ghana’s first Winter Olympian, competing in the mens’ slalom skiing event. His objective – to finish, and not last. His result – 47th out of 48 competitors.
They start young these days. A teacher was on yard duty during recess at Swallowcliffe Primary School at Davoren Park on Wednesday when two students threw a brick at her, hitting her in the back of the head. As she lay on the ground semi-conscious, the two students stole her office keys and stole more than $400 from her purse. Charming! As one parent said: "It’s very scary, I mean, these are only [...] Continue Reading…
Congratulations to Lydia Lassila on winning gold in the womens aerials skiing event at the Vancouver Olympics. Australia’s 2nd gold medal of these Olympics and only 5th of all time. What is it about Australian women flying through the air on skis and snowboards? First Torah Bright, now Lydia Lassila and don’t forget Alisa Camplin who won the aerials in 2002. Well done!
For sale: 1 American President. Location: Shanghai, China.
Congratulations to Australian snowboarder Torah Bright on winning gold in the women’s halfpipe in snowboarding today in Vancouver. She’s almost a local, coming from Cooma, NSW, about an hour and a bit down the highway from my home.
Especially if its a tattoo design. Penrith Panthers rugby league player Jarrod Sammut didn’t (or he did, but can’t spell himself – quite a likely possibility), and here’s the result. Spot the error. Still I suppose most of the bogans who get tattooed probably don’t notice bad spelling before defacing their skin with shit like this.
Some valuable advice from Taroko Gorge yesterday.
