YOU’VE HAD IT COMING BARBIE:
Adam just showed me this website .. hours of fun for the whole family, first we start off with some blended Barbies
Now work your way through the carnage, and remember kiddies, dont try this at home .. unless you’ve called me over.
LAMBY:
Heres another early hero of mine, Paul Lynde. Paul was outrageously camp and had the best voice for his many charactors, including voicing a lot of cartoons. I have a very strong memory of being REALLY young and watching Paul on ‘Love American Style’ (when is THAT coming out on dvd?) might be time to start trawling through ebay to see what i can turn up.
This blog is dedicated to my zygot trash sister Marcia, who through the years keeps turning me on to and inspiring me to embrace true quality trash.
Meanwhile check out Paul on Donny and Marie.
CALL ME BETTE:
Thanks to a kind friend i just got hold of the dvd reissue of ‘Whatever happend to baby Jane’ i love this movie, it makes me remember the first time i saw it at my friend Donna’s place, i was fresh out of the closet and her flatmate ‘Dee Dee’ decided i needed a little cinematic education, so we hunkered down for an afternoon of camp mayhem as i watched with eyes like saucers as Joan Crawford spun out of control in a wheelchair, and Bette Davis served Joan up rat on a silver platter .. many years later i was amazed to see Dee Dee arrive at a huge party in a wheelchair dressed up as Joan complete with silver platter and rat in her lap! the best thing about this dvd is the bonus feature of Bette Davis singing the theme song from the movie on the Andy Williams show in the early 1960’s
You can watch the clip by clicking the link below.
BEST PHOTO EVER?:
Just look at these wonderous photo’s of Jocelyn!!, she’s had MORE cranio construction and even her dog is recoiling in dismay!.
Click on the link below for the only footage i’ve ever been able to find of Jocelyn, and let me say .. it’s not pretty.
TIME TO CATCH UP:
It’s been a few months, but i’m back to blogging .. if for no one else but myself, i’ve always kept a diary and this blog is my current form of that.
What a roller coaster year it’s been for me, every year has bumps but this year has been a little wilder than usual, i’m convinced as i get older and more ‘aware’ things going on around you are more powerful and intense as evolve, for me blind optomism is being replaced with an internal strugle dealing with how slow and regressive change is, for the first time i have a little maturity and where as about twelve years ago i/we were living in an era .. a time where we felt and appeared to be moving forward, in our work places we were being treated fairly, in relationships gay’s and lesbians had a sense of continuing change in our favour, there were moves towards becoming a republic, and racism appeared to be receding. Now in the short space of ten years that has all come spiraling undone and for me it’s been almost impossible to watch, thats what i’ve had to learn to deal with in the last ten years my incredible disappointment in mankind and how weak and greedy we truely are.
However, being surrounded by this force of rancid imorality i.e ‘Bush and Bonzai’ (you know, Bonzai .. a little Bush) it’s has forced me to concentrate on and seek out good.
Recently i came across a few articles on Coretta Scott King (Martin Luther King’s widow) i had no idea she was such an advocate for Gay righs and equated Gay rights with what was happening with civel rights for blacks in America during the sixties, this was incredibley brave of her and she got a lot of heat from some fellow civel rights leaders and even some of her own children.
If anyone has read this far please take another moment to read some of the articles on this amazingly brave and evolved lady ..
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force mourns the death of Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who died in her sleep overnight at the age of 78. Mrs. King worked tirelessly after her husband’s death in 1968 to carry on his legacy of social justice activism. She was a steadfast ally in the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, and was honored by the Task Force in 1997 for her support of the cause. In addition, Mrs. King was a featured speaker at the Task Force’s Creating Change 2000, where she rallied hundreds of activists gathered for the country’s largest LGBT rights organizing conference. In 2003, her son, Martin Luther King Jr. III, was personally responsible for inviting Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman to join Mrs. King to speak from the podium at the 40th anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington.
“Our community has lost a dear and courageous friend, someone who was there for us when virtually no one else was,” Foreman said today.
‘From the beginning, Mrs. King understood that homophobia is hate, and hate has no place in the Beloved Community that she and Dr. King envisioned for our nation and our world.’
— Matt Foreman, executive director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
In 1997, upon receiving the Task Force’s Honoring Our Allies award, Mrs. King told the crowd, “I accept this award as a reaffirmation of my commitment to carry forward the unfinished work of my husband, Martin Luther King Jr. My husband understood that all forms of discrimination and persecution were unjust and unacceptable for a great democracy. He believed that none of us could be free until all of us were free, that a person of conscience had no alternative but to defend the human rights of all people. I want to reaffirm my determination to secure the fullest protection of the law for all working people, regardless of their sexual orientation … it is right, just and good for America.”
At the awards ceremony, Kerry Lobel, then-Task Force executive director, said, “Mrs. King has stood shoulder to shoulder with us as we work to envision and create a world based on social justice. She embraces the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as part of the continued legacy of Dr. King’s brave work. Her progressive vision of peace and justice echoes around the world.”
“Today we deeply mourn the loss of Coretta Scott King, who staunchly stood for the civil rights of all people, including the civil rights of our lesbigaytrans community of all colors, and who consistently challenged our own black community to understand that discrimination is wrong whether based on color or sexual identity. Civil rights is civil rights,” said longtime activist Mandy Carter, executive director and a co-founder of the North Carolina-based group Southerners on New Ground.
“I’ll forever cherish the day that I and Matt Foreman, representing our lesbigaytrans community, got to stand shoulder to shoulder with her on August 23, 2003, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington,” Carter continued. “The 1963 march was organized by Bayard Rustin, a black gay pacifist who was instrumental in introducing Dr. King to concepts of Ghandian nonviolence, the hallmark of the civil rights movement. Thank you so much Mrs. Coretta Scott King. You’ve left an amazing legacy.”
On April 1, 1998 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Mrs. King called on the civil rights community to join in the struggle against homophobia and anti-gay bias. “Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood,” King stated. “This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.”
In November 2003 in a speech to at the opening session of the 13th annual Creating Change conference, organized by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Mrs King made her now famous appeal linking the Civil Rights Movement to the LGBT Human Rights Movement: “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people…. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”
Mrs. King continued, “It is encouraging that we have seen more gay and lesbian candidates elected to political office. It is important for lesbian and gay officeholders and their constituencies to achieve greater visibility as supporters of laws that benefit the entire community. I think this will help educate the American public that lesbian and gay people seek the same goals of quality education for young people, cleaner air and water, safe streets and better health care that straight people want. We have to work harder for the broader vision of the compassionate and caring society that demands decent living standards for all citizens”.
Mrs. King’s support of Gay Human Rights angered some black pastors. She called her critics “misinformed” and said that Martin Luther King’s message to the world was one of equality and inclusion.
In March 2004, she told a university audience that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue and denounced a proposed amendment to the Constitution ban it.
In her speech King also criticized a group of black pastors in her home state of Georgia for backing a bill to amend that state’s constitution to block gay and lesbian couples from marrying.
On March 23. 2004 Mrs. King is quoted as saying at Richard Stockton College in Pomona, N.J., “gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriage.”
In 2003, she invited the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to take part in observances of the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.
It was the first time that an LGBT rights group had been invited to a major event of the African American community.
King said her husband supported the quest for equality by gays and reminded her critics that the 1963 March on Washington was organized by Bayard Rustin, an openly gay man.
Coretta was a supporter of animal rights.
Thanks for reading this far, reading about Mrs King gave me such a lift and reawakend my hope for a better future for all of us, i just have to keep remembering that things go in cycles.
GAY PAREE: Paris Hilton up against a brick wall in handcuff’s .. you get that.
CANBERRA: Adam recently won another holiday, this time to Canberra, or more acurately to a farm B&B about 25 minutes outside of the city, so on Friday afternoon we packed up Christine and headed down the highway, it’s not such a bad trip now and you can do it in about 2 1/2 hours from our place.
It was a weekend of pure gastronomical indulgence, oh my goodness did we EAT!! it was all layed on for us as part of the prize, all meals were arranged at luxury venues close to where we were staying, after we arrived at the B&B we we chaufured off to our first restaraunt which was an old converted pub from around 1889, the meal was fantastic and the evening ended on a fantastic note when the waiter who had fawned over us all night found out the meal was on the house and we were only freeloading prize winners, after ranting and huffing he turned to us and spat ‘Well i hope you were hungry!’ to me that finished off the evening better than a fine wine.
On Saturday after a yummy breakfast of eggs on toast (i was scared of the eggs, i couldnt figure out what they had done to turn them so yellow .. i later found out they were fresh from the farm .. Doh!) we drove into Canberra and visited the Australian museum which wasnt such a bad way to spend an afternoon tho i must say the city centre is looking a lot sadder and poxy than usual, civic mall was pretty deserted and those who were in there looked a little ‘gamey’ including the freeform talker who entered shops lambasting the ‘Fat arsed Amanda Vanstone’ on the top of his voice.
As we walked back to the car we heard a ‘squark’ and had time to look up and see this huge bird propel out an airborn stool in the direction of Adam, he had mere nano seconds in which to pivot out of the way, and i watched as if in slow motion the offending squirt brushed past Adam and slammed into the car bonnet next to us.
I still like Canberra, but i must admit she IS looking a little rough around the edges .. then again, John Howard DOES live there.
SUNSET ALONG THE HIGHWAY:
DESERT AU GO GO:
FREELOADERS:
ADAM FILMING OUTSIDE OUR ROOM:
BLOWN BALL:
CIVIC CHEMIST ADVERTISMENT:
NEAR MISS BIRD TURD:
OFFENDING BIRD GLOATING:
OUTSIDE OUR ROOM:
MEHL!!:
My friend Vesna once told me about this game she played ‘You should have known you were gay when .. ‘
I look back and shake my head at all my obvious sign posts, one of which was the little known 70’s sitcom ‘Alice’, there was this character called ‘Flo’ who was this tall, blonde, sassy, outrageous dresser with a loooooong southern drawl, i LOVED Flo, she lived in a trailer, she wore see through nighties, she snapped at her boss, she wore HUGE colourful PLASTIC earings and her hair was teased a mile high.
In other words the perfect gay icon, i could impersonate her, i knew all her lines and BEST of all she had a catch phrase ‘Mehhhl (Mel) kiss mah grits!!’
Why dont tv shows have catch phrases anymore? .. alas.
MAN ‘KIND’?:
Word has just filtered down to Australia that four more of the Bali nine drug mules are to be executed, this sickens me to the pit of my stomach. Let me clarify this, by no means do I excuse the trafficking of heroin, i have seen the destruction this vile drug brings, but i do not believe in the death sentence and in this world of random and planned violence why cant people /governments start to act humanely, lead by example?
Two of the guys to be exacuted were 18 and 19 at the time of their arrest, i know an 18 year old ‘thinks’ they are worldly and know everything, but in truth they know very little.
How hard would it be for the Indonesian gpovernment to say to these people ‘Okay you screwed up BIG time, you were caught .. BUT we will release you under the care of your government, you must go home, lead fruitful and positive lives, if you so much as drop cigarette butt you’ll be brought back to this place to face the full weight of your sentance’
Really, turn something positive out of it .. i know there are all the arguments saying people wouldnt see any deterant, but i cannot accept that the snuffing of two lives that were under 20 years old at the time is in anyway fruitful ..
Of course then the bigger picture became clear when i read this from that rancid, waste of space Alexander Downer ..
* Mr Downer said he hoped the situation would not hurt relations between Canberra and Jakarta, still on the mend after Australia irritated Indonesia by granting protection visas to a group of Papuan asylum seekers.
Oh PLEASE, cant we just once think of ourselves and our values instead of having our nations tongue down the back of the trousers of every nation that throws us some trade crumbs!?
What an interesting Saturday night i had, i got to regree into my spotty and pre spotty youth as Steve and i attended the ‘Countdown extraveganza’ at the Acer areana at Olympic park, i’ve never been to a concert here before so it was interesting to see a new venue.
The concert was choc full of old artist that warbled their way across the Countdown stage all those years ago, inc Joe Dolce’ ‘Shutupa your face!’ by the end of the first half i couldnt help but think ‘This is SO daggy!’ then i realised that Countdown always WAS daggy!
There were quite a few highlights for me, a ‘Not quite together’ Keith Lamb from ‘Hush’, John English singing his first song in the key of ‘A’ while the band were playing in ‘F’, the girls from ‘Cheetah’ who i was sure would be appearing in Mu Mu’s attempting to cover 25 years or so accumulated ‘puffiness’ but i was floored when the girls waled out looking HOT with low slung jeans and not a ‘muffin top’ to be seen.
Of course the highlight was getting to see Sherbet again, a band i adored in my youth, as soon as they came out on stage i flew down the front to garner a champagne view, it was a real joy to watch these guys comand the stage again.
It was such a great night, it was the first warm day of spring so even at 11.30pm we were walking around in just short sleeves with a lovely warm breeze guiding us home.
I LUV YU GARF!!
International guest!! Leo Sayer
Molly spins a little Humdrum
Ross Wilson and Mondo Rock
James Reyne
The Fab Daryl Braithwaite
You have to hand it to Joan Crawford, she was a toiler like no other, if she wasnt scrubbing her own floors she was trying to flog Pepsi even in publicity stills for her final movie ‘Trog’
Here’s a pic of of Adam and i out having dinner with his family just before he left for Europe with his mum. I like family, family is good.
Is this photo from 1976 or 2006? hard to tell these days.
Better late than never, i thought i’d post my favorite Big Brother housemate for the year .. this wont be popular amongst many however i look at the big picture, for me hands down my favorite housemate was Darren, he came in late as an intruder and didnt last all that long but he showed a side than NONE of those other vacuous other dingbat house mates did. Darren wasnt popular in the house and pretty soon found himself on the outter, the only housemate to warm to him was David the ‘Gay cowboy’, it soon became obvious that David was attracted to Darren but to his credit Darren didnt flinch, he had the attitude of ‘I dont care, it’s no big deal’.
Later when he had left the house just about every interview he done questions were raised about Davids crush on him and Darren never wavered in his response ‘I dont care, i know we were just friends what does it matter?’ the corker for me came in his farewell message to the housemates, Darren told David that he loved him .. a VERY brave thing to do for a strait boy, if every strait boy had this attitude and level of acceptance and understanding there would be a lot less gay boys laying on stretchers in emergency rooms after being bashed for no other reason than they are gay.
Krystal the minx laughing as Darren fell and hurt himself in the shower, she was later to fall and cut open her chin requiring a heap of stitches.
This weekend presented another one of those ‘back to the future’ moments in my life, when i was eleven years old my sister Dianne took myself and my niece Michelle to see our first ever rock concert ‘Sherbet’ at Wollongong town hall, it was May 1976 and i do have some memories from the show, i remember our tickets were pink, we had to stand on our seats to see, the girls all screamed hysterically, Allan played a drum solo which i think may have sealed my love for the drums, they played the Beatles song ‘Nowhere man’ and sat down and played just as Paul had done on his Aussie tour the year before and lastly i remember someone up in the balcony must have had a broken leg as they waved a crutch over their head for most of the show.
Years later i’ve had the chance to perform at the Town hall several times myself and each time i stand in the dressing room i cant help but remember the Sherbet concert.
This weekend in preparation for the headlining reunion of the Countdown spectacular Sherbet has played a few secret gigs as a warm up and on Saturday night they played Shellharbour workers club, close by to where i live. This was a big deal and i even had friends from Melbourne fly up for the concert.
It was an interesting evening on a social level, most of the females in the audience the last time they saw Sherbet they had braces on their teeth, alas now many of them didnt HAVE any teeth.
I must admit they band absolutely tore the place apart and proved why besides the teste separating satin pants of years gone by, why they were so popular, they are a GREAT band, it was a treat to get to meet some of the band after the show and get an autograph or two.
Watch this space for my report on the Countdown concert.
GRANDPA: Just before flying down to Melbourne i thought it might be a fun idea to slap a little dye on the old greying locks, just recently the silver has started to really shine through, so much so that i realised i was starting to resemble Grandpa Munster!, so over the weekend a couple of mates and i got out the mortar and pessel and started to munch up various herbs, roots and chemicals to rub into my hair to see if we could ‘Demunster-ise’ it, quite amazingly the results werent too bad, over the next couple of days i’ll post an ‘after’ shot.
CARMEN GEDDIT: 
Last night i finally got around to watching the Logies highlights dvd i purchased when i was last in Melbourne, i picked this little gem up at J&B HI FI which is without a doubt the best shop in the universe, so as i’m reliving past glories and disasters the camera panned around the room at one of the early 1970’s Logies events, for just a split second i caught sight of a woman sitting behind Patti Newton and without thinking i said ‘That’s Carmen Van Hoorn she was Don Lanes date that night’.
Can someone, ANYONE .. please mail me and tell me how it can be that i cant remember my own phone number but i can without flinch recall the name of Don Lanes date from the early 1970’s? .. i seriously worry myself sometimes, it’s not natural, it’s not normal is it?.
JOCELYN: There’s a lot i could say, but do i need to? .. suffice to say Jocelyn has a special corner in my heart.
GRAND DAME: What i would give to lash out at Camilla’s hair with a pair of scissors.
PERFECT ONE DAY: The weekend before last Adam and I spent in Qld celebrating my Brother in laws birthday, while up there we took the chance to get out a little.
PHOTO 1-2-3: ‘Q1’ (or as we called it ‘The finger of Thorpe’ so called due to the fact that they use Ian Thorpe as the buildings spokesperson) the worlds tallest residential building, amazing views all around and the elevators were a little scary as they covered 76 floors in 43 seconds!
PHOTO 4: The downside of development, the shadows.
PHOTO 5: The view down to Byron bay.
PHOTO 6-7-8: Whilst on the Gold Coast Adam myself, my sister and my niece went to a Big Brother eviction, of course we were howling and baying for blood like the best of them, but we totally paled into insignificance to some of the Big Brother obsessive there .. Truly scary people who don’t understand the line drawn between real life and reality tv.
THE SPLIT ENDS:
After 22 years apart Split Enz have reunited and are touring Aussie, it is the classic 1980 line up from the ‘I got you’ era, some friends and i headed to Sydney to catch the 3rd gig of the tour and what a great concert it was, the Finn brothers really are one of the major talents in music, no doubt. After the concert Steve and i done the old ‘Lets wait around the stage door’ trick and it payed off with me getting cool photo’s of the band and an autograph.
S-T-A-U-N-C-H:
Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, AKA the aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, AKA the ‘star’s’ of the documentary Grey Garden’s. Imagine two headstrong women, a mother and daughter living in a ramshackle, dilapidated twenty six room mansion overrun with dozens of cat’s, rat’s and bandicoot’s, the kitchen waist deep in trash, shunned by high society of which they were once a queen and princess, two women who right to the end literally danced to the beat of their own drum. The Edies .. a true inspiration to me.
A (NICE) DAY IN THE LIFE: Had a really nice weekend filled with family, friend’s, music and surprises.
PHOTO 1:
Adam and i took his mum to breakfast at our favorite cafe ‘Mudcat’s’ so Adam could surprise her with the news that she would be accompanying him to Europe on an all expenses paid trip that Adam won in a competition on Friday, Adam’s mum paid for breakfast 🙂
PHOTO 2:
Found this lovely flowered glove in the orchestra pit.
PHOTO 3:
The ACT band, four show’s over three days, how do REAL band’s do it? i was shagged after these few show’s.
PHOTO 4:
The obligatory Burger King stop on the way home, i like to stick my animal cruelty pamphlets up on the order speakers, call me radical.
POSEIDON AD VENTURE:
One of my earliest memories is of my sister taking me to the movies (the Gala Warrawong i think) to see the original ‘Poseidon adventure’ i’m sure it had a profound effect as it started a lifelong love of Irwin Allan disaster movies, i’m pretty excited to see the new version will soon be playing down here, it’s had bad reviews but give me an upside down boat and a heap of b grade actors and i’m there!.
THE BRIDGE: Adam and i at the back of Darling Harbour, you can see Sydney Harbour Bridge just to the left, i always feel so charged up walking around the harbour and the city, it really does have a vibe.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a Marta fashion spread, seeing as we’re heading into a cold winter i thought i’d concentrate the majority of these photo’s on some of Marta’s winter couture.
PHOTO 1: Brrrrrrrrr Marta freezes for art, dont you love the pink knitted mitts and how ‘now’ is that scrunched parker!.
PHOTO 2: Here Marta plays the part of a fabbo rock chick, call me old fashioned but under the right stage lighting Marta could be mistaken for Coutney Love, of course Marta has a much nicer complexion.
PHOTO 3: Not even the harsh Arabian sun can draw a bead of sweat to Marta’s upper lip.
PHOTO 4: Paris meets Miami Vice, have plimsols ever looked so sexy? i’m loving the matching Parisian top and hat, once again Marta was waaaay ahead of her time with Marta’s hat predating Fergies ‘bucket hats’ of 1986 by many a year.
PHOTO 5: Marta personifies casual cutting edge chic, photographed against a background of trash cans she knows we dont need the juxtaposition but she throws it at us anyway, she has the sleeves rolled up, confidant, a look on her face whilst gripping her gin and tonic that say’s ‘I’ll drive this glass in your face if you come near me’.
PHOTO 6: The deconstructed brainiac librarian look, you can see Marta likes to mix the old with the new, silver ‘Cherio’ earings, retro black spectacle frames, cream satin blouse under a designer dress, Marta’s not satisfied to leave it at that, she’s gone a brought a ‘nana hat’ from the op shop just to throw us.
PHOTO 7: The first of three biker shots, please take a look at those white pointed heels, the point on these shoes would have Gretel Kileen green with envy.
PHOTO 8: This photograph takes my breath away, Marta is wearing a satin top that Leif Garrett would crawl over broken glass to own, the wide banded watch is again ‘now’ and of course it’s worth noting there isnt so much as a bug in Marta’s teeth as she hurtles down the highway of fashion.
PHOTO 9: Marta’s a cluey girl, she knows you go nowhere without your accesories, Marta has slung her Prada handbag and Norman Hartnell hat over her handle bars.
COWARD OF THE COUNTY: ‘Ya gotta know when to roll them, know when to fold them’ when Kenny sung those words i dont think he was talking about the skin he’d one day have excised from his eye lids.
MELBORN IN REFLECSHON: The crisp winter air of Melbourne is calling me, i love Melbourne in winter and i’m really excited about my trip back down there in October with Adam, i was hoping to go back in July but seeing as we won a short trip to the goldfields we may as well tie it all in.
I know someone from Sydney isnt supposed to ‘really’ like Melbourne but i cant help it, i adore the place, tho i would never move there as each time i travel down there it’s exciting and special. What brought on this ‘whist’ for the shivery city? clearing out my disc on my digital camera i found a few photo’s from my holiday last month.
ROBYN: Robyn and i having a bevy and catching up on our trips to the U.S at the end of last year, when not travelling the world Robyn can often be found outside KFC in the city protesting the slaughter of innocent animals, bless her cotton socks.
SQUINT: Here is phillip and i on the banks of the Yarra, at this time we were trying to escape the acrobatic escapades of a rather highly strung unhinged person who seemed to pop up where ever we were, can you see the resolve on Phillip’s face not to squint into the sun and show off any fledgling crows feet?
A BEVY:
SCAREY MONSTER: I’m very partial to folks who stylise there cars with things slightly more interesting than spoilers and mags, in Bondi we once saw a car totally covered in astro turf and small plastic farm animals, whilst in Melbourne we found this car which had this scarey childs rocker attached to the roof racks.
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Call me old fashioned but I love a good conspiracy theory, here is my latest .. My gorgeous partner Adam has been on a health kick of late, stripping off weight like no ones business, descending into a miasma of a Mary Kate Olsen/Kate Ritchie existence, I’m just waiting for him to start donning the ‘Jackie O’ fly glasses to complete the ensemble, thing is Adam is still doing nice things for me and making me yummy treats like Oreo ice cream cakes, sugar and cinnamon pretzels etc, now my thinking is maybe he has some sort of inverse bulimia munchausen’s where he’s feeding me so I get puffy and all the while he gets more glamorous, is this possible? i’ve been inspired by Jamie on Big Brother and been staring into space a lot lately and thinking a lot and coming up with idea’s, this is my most impressive so far.
* I must add a footnote .. i have no problem suffering through this
in fact i may get out my favorite recipe book and encourage it, perhaps in
some twisted way we’ll be able to start claiming vegatable terrines and
puff pastry on Medicare .. what a thought.
POST LOGIES GOSS:
* WHILE Tracey Grimshaw, Karl Stefanovic, Mel Doyle, David Koch and the rest of the Beaconsfield TV talent forewent this year’s Logies to stay in Tassie for the story, there was one person who wasn’t going to miss the chance to dress up like a princess.
Naomi Robson flew to Crown Casino from the mine for the glitz and glamour before flying back to Beaconsfield yesterday. Lucky for her the miners were still underground when she got back.
While Robson skipped the red carpet, her make-up truck made an appearance thanks to The Chaser boys who took the mickey with a truck.
Poor old Naomi, havent they got it in for her? .. cant say I mind, I cant stand the way she sits in front of the camera on Today Tonight all pius after doing story slamming a not to bright family or something, glad the Chaser boys are after her and just who is leaking all those blooper tapes of her?.
* REACTION to the Bec and Lleyton baby stunt was far from supportive. “Poor Mia Hewitt! She’s in danger of becoming Australia’s own Paris Hilton and she can’t even walk yet,” said one outraged viewer. Bec Hewitt, another one who grates on me, not sure how she got so far in television with that voice
How tacky were ther red carpet arrivals, all that was was a half hour advertorial for all the designers and shoe makers, a constant parade of moronic airheads walking up the ackminster swishing around in there modified Osti frocks trying to get the name of the designer in as many times as possible just so they wouldnt have to pay for the dress .. blech!!
* SONIA Kruger’s stack was only bettered by Bert Newton who suffered a doozey backstage, spraining his hand, bruising his nose and forehead and walking away with a sore knee after falling off the stage following the show.
Newton was comforted backstage by co-presenters Daryl Somers and Georgie Parker before wife Patti came and took him home.
I wonder if Bert was a little ‘tired and emotional’? hope his wig didnt fly off.
* FORGET Mr Big, Chris Noth is Mr Sleaze. The 52-year-old former Sex and the City star quickly made a name for himself as a big time player, hitting on women left, right and centre at the awards ceremony and Channel 10’s after party.
At one stage he was heard inviting a couple of girls back to his room, quoting his room number to the TV babes who later said he was “arrogant and sexist.”
Oh dear, thats taken a little shine off my ‘Big’ facination.
LOGIE MOMENTS: Last night a few of us sat down and settled in for a Sunday night of trash viewing, first up we had the spectacle of the first Big Brother eviction, i felt strangely unfullfilled as this year there is no one i really dislike, except for maybe Camilla (the name alone should be reason enough to dislike her) but like the dutiful trash buckets we are we still wrung glee out of the first evictee’s discomfort and misfortune. We channel surfed over to the Logies just in time to see the HORROR that is Joan Rivers face, as you all know the fastest way to my heart is to have your face taken to with scalples, needles and chemicals, but Joan had me feeling a little queazy. As per usual the night decended into a drunken charade of people thinking what they are doing is really important to the world, why dont they have the nurses awards, or the ambulance driver awards? i’m sure they have more insights to life and it’s value than a half stung and jittering soapie starlett who comands the stage for a WAAAAAAY too long speech about how her art is bringing about world peace, of course i love all this, but really .. most of them do need a slap. Bravo to Maggie T (a woman i truely admire, in her 70’s, feisty, glamourous and not a nip or tuck) for telling the assembled drunken pilled up masses to basically shut up and pull their heads in while she was making a speech. Mi Amor Adam, and Tyson and Min made an appearance for this gab fest, all agreed the Logies needs a director who knows the word ‘cut!’
PHOTO 1: Cradling myself as i sit through another embarrasing speech, Adam blurrily scratches my head to try and calm my discomfort.
PHOTO 2: Tyson gleams all the goss from my vintage collection of Tv Week magazines, just how long has Bert been around?
MELBOURNE PT-1: Got to spend a great week in Melbourne recently, I love going down there to stay with Phillip and to catch up with a heap of friends, below I’ve posted some photo’s of people and places I got to see during my stay.
PIC 1
My first stop in Melbourne is always to my favorite wiggery where I get the rug scrubbed, knitted and platted back into shape.
PIC 2
Phillip always introduces me to the yummiest restaurants then gives me the once over for putting on weight 🙂 this pic was taken at the ‘Spud bar’ all i can say is yum yum yum!.
PIC 3
My friend Dave, he has a collection of Liberace books to rival my own.
PASS THE BLOW TORCH: 
Aaaaaah, just when you thought Farrah had the plastic surgery 2006 awards all sewn up (ahem) along comes Kenny and Burt, take a bow gents, i tip my hat to you.
OREO:
Before i flew to Melbourne Adam made me a going away gift, i think he pulled out the ‘Bernard King – sweets for my sweetie’ cookbook and whipped up these soon to be violently masticated delights, basically they are small chocolate cakes that you cut in half, then spoon in Oreo choc chip ice cream and put the top of the cake back on, i only had the capacity to wolf down two of these morsals before i left, but i burnt up the phone lines between Adam and i checking that NO ONE was going to decimate my stash of the puffy and airy brown blobs, goodness knows visitors to ‘Rancho Rotalacta’ pillage and violate my fridge and freezer like starving pirates, upon my return i was somewhat relieved to find the marauding western samoan prairie dogs (ie hungry visitors) had deemed it fit to leave me a smattering of the brown nuggets. Did i mention how fantastically brillient these taste?
ON SALE:
I’ve been lucky and spoilt enough over the years to receive many many presents and gifts, but if I had to choose my favorite it was the last gift my dad ever gave me, it’s so precious to me and i wouldnt exchange it for the world, it’s a plastic cup that had chocolate in it, the best part is that it’s covered in price reduction stickers from $3.18 down to $1.50. I know dad wouldnt have been thinking of the chocolate, it would have been the fact that it was covered in the scabby stickers, that’s one of the things i miss most about him, his subtle humour .. everyone who knew him would tell you that his humour was very rarely subtle. Even twenty years later the mere sight of this cup brings an instant smile to my face. I’ve also posted a photo of my dad in his Air force uniform, i think he was just about the most handsome man you’d ever see.
