Mixed lollies
I love the smell of 2,4,5-T in the morning — it smells like the DG. He’s on a fact-finding mission to ’Nam: something to do with a link between Agent Orange, Operation Ranch Hand and that aftershave he insists on wearing. At least, I’d always assumed it was his aftershave… But now he’s crossed into Cambodia with his army, who worship the man like a god and follow every order, however ridiculous. He’s out there operating without any decent restraint. Totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he’s still in the field commanding his troops. I just hope he remembered to take his surfboard.
So lollies are on me this week: Norman Mailer has written 35 books. His latest, a portrait of the young Adolf Schicklgruber, is likely to be even more controversial than usual. I also owe a hat tip to Graham Reid for the inadvertent forwarding of this fascinating piece about the links between Bobby Zimmerman and another moustachioed icon, which I in turn forwarded to NZBC cub reporter Joe “Blowin’ in the Wind” Bowman… who sent me this cautionary tale about the use of stun guns. Oh what a tangled web we weave! Master Bowman is worried that shooting a naked student in the groin may have permanently sterilised the poor fellow or, at least, “severely drained his power crystals”…
U2’s latest video, Window in the Skies, has had the blogosphere buzzing as people struggle to list each of the celebrities it contains, many of whom appear to be ‘lip-synching’ to the lyrics of the song. Annoyingly clever, and whoever was responsible for all the clearances scores extra points for putting Frank Zappa in at the start. But does Gail approve?
This Steve Bell cartoon about the re-arrest of Lord ‘Coo-ca-choo’ Levy in Blair’s ‘cash for honours’ scandal had several of us (well, me) revisiting a recent NZBC post. Go on, read it, you know you want to.
Stephen has a hat-tip to Blair Mulholland, who speculates that this thing may be Ra-Ra-Rasputin’s penis (this not only isn’t work-safe, it ain’t safe anyplace…). No wonder the monk was mad. However, the sceptics aren’t convinced about the provenance of the baby elephant trunk — and besides, who’s that woman admiring the bottled appendage in the picture? Comments on Blair’s blog suggest all Russian women look like this, but she doesn’t look quite so hot without her make-up.
Stephen also notes Cactus Kate stopped bagging Rachel Glucina long enough to offer some sound advice on man-bags. Who needs ’em? I just stuff all my accessories into my tights.
NZBC’s other metrosexual, Mr Broatch, offers this as his headline of the week, from a piece in Slate about gay sheep. And he has an article from the Telegraph that might have you wondering how well you really know your own parents. Also, Hirsi Ali explaining why secular humanists need to defend their ideals in the face of fundamentalist Islamists, and this, which is about one of the Moslem men she criticises. Finally, why some canine geneticists reckon the search for the perfect canine cross is “a phenomenally good idea” — provided it’s done conscientiously.
“This is the end,
Beautiful friend…”
So lollies are on me this week: Norman Mailer has written 35 books. His latest, a portrait of the young Adolf Schicklgruber, is likely to be even more controversial than usual. I also owe a hat tip to Graham Reid for the inadvertent forwarding of this fascinating piece about the links between Bobby Zimmerman and another moustachioed icon, which I in turn forwarded to NZBC cub reporter Joe “Blowin’ in the Wind” Bowman… who sent me this cautionary tale about the use of stun guns. Oh what a tangled web we weave! Master Bowman is worried that shooting a naked student in the groin may have permanently sterilised the poor fellow or, at least, “severely drained his power crystals”…
U2’s latest video, Window in the Skies, has had the blogosphere buzzing as people struggle to list each of the celebrities it contains, many of whom appear to be ‘lip-synching’ to the lyrics of the song. Annoyingly clever, and whoever was responsible for all the clearances scores extra points for putting Frank Zappa in at the start. But does Gail approve?
This Steve Bell cartoon about the re-arrest of Lord ‘Coo-ca-choo’ Levy in Blair’s ‘cash for honours’ scandal had several of us (well, me) revisiting a recent NZBC post. Go on, read it, you know you want to.
Stephen has a hat-tip to Blair Mulholland, who speculates that this thing may be Ra-Ra-Rasputin’s penis (this not only isn’t work-safe, it ain’t safe anyplace…). No wonder the monk was mad. However, the sceptics aren’t convinced about the provenance of the baby elephant trunk — and besides, who’s that woman admiring the bottled appendage in the picture? Comments on Blair’s blog suggest all Russian women look like this, but she doesn’t look quite so hot without her make-up.
Stephen also notes Cactus Kate stopped bagging Rachel Glucina long enough to offer some sound advice on man-bags. Who needs ’em? I just stuff all my accessories into my tights.
NZBC’s other metrosexual, Mr Broatch, offers this as his headline of the week, from a piece in Slate about gay sheep. And he has an article from the Telegraph that might have you wondering how well you really know your own parents. Also, Hirsi Ali explaining why secular humanists need to defend their ideals in the face of fundamentalist Islamists, and this, which is about one of the Moslem men she criticises. Finally, why some canine geneticists reckon the search for the perfect canine cross is “a phenomenally good idea” — provided it’s done conscientiously.
“This is the end,
Beautiful friend…”
posted by Chris Bell at 12:14 PM
1 Comments:
Greetings from Denham, just down the road from Monkey Mia.
You have missed the most shocking news of the week for you boys- your muse Scarlett Johannson is now single again.
Not only that, so is Kylie Minogue, who now fears she will be left lonely all her life.
Well, off to see the dolphins now.
Wonder if I might bump into another emu in the high street.
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