Archive for September, 2005



MGR

Published on September 30, 2005

The latest Making Girls Run Caption is just too good to go unmentioned.
See it here.


Domain name fun

Published on September 28, 2005

I finally did it.
Yesterday I registered www.hammygoonan.com and www.goonanism.com. I don’t have web hosting or anything yet – I’ll worry about that in due course (ie when I have the time and a few spare bucks lying around).
For now I plan to have a few things on my site. My blog will be [...]


If your mother only knew

Published on September 22, 2005

I was keen to go to the Bugg’n tour but at nearly $100 a pop I wasn’t going to go to a show costing that much when I don’t even own one of their albums (I do own a little Wu-Tang but this wasn’t Wu-Tang). But mostly I was spewing because it meant I’d [...]


Every now and then I actually wish I lived in America

Published on September 20, 2005

I won’t deny it, I want to go to Operation: Ceasefire. I’d want to go even if it wasn’t a political thing.
Jello Biafra (aka god himself) is hosting an all star line up including The Coup and LeTigre.


Latham

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I wasn’t going to comment on Latham but having watched Enough Rope I feel like everyone else in the blogsphere I’ve got an opinion that should be voiced.
A couple of things struck me. Firstly how Latham was really open, particularly emotionally, about somethings while defensive and closed – almost dismissive – about others. [...]


PR in a democracy

Published on September 16, 2005

Hello everyone. Just reminding you that everyone’s favorite NGO, The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice is running it’s second forum in the Evatt Room at Trades Hall from 6:30 on Tuesday (20th)
The Forum is called: “The role of public relations in a democracy”
All the speakers are really good and I’d like to suggest [...]


I’ve a new favorite poem

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(perhaps a worthwhile reflection in the context of the current debates around national identity and so on)
The Bastard From The Bush(Attrib. to Henry Lawson)
As the night was falling slowly over city, town and bush,From a slum in Jones’s Alley came the Captain of the Push,And his whistle loud and piercing woke the echoes of the [...]


Oops

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Go here. Click on the first image (the one of the out side of the house) and look very carefully.


New Orleans?

Published on September 14, 2005

Now I dialed 911 a long time agoDon’t you see how late they’re reactin’They only come and they come when they wannaSo get the morgue embalm the gonerThey don’t care ’cause they stay paid anywayThey teach ya like an ace they can’t be betrayedI know you stumble with no use peopleIf your life is on [...]


Fantomas

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For the benefit of puck There was a lot of this last night:And what a night it was. The aural onslaught that is Fantomas was witnessed and it made me very happy.
*sighs, then starts jumping around on the spot screaming a lot*
In a mildly antagonistic way at work yesterday I played a colleague who [...]