Negative Man

Not today my good persons, not today am I going to be Negative Man.
Today I am light and sweetness. Today I'm everyone's friend. A friend to man and beast alike for Christmas is upon us and I am all things giving.

Now before I hear you becry the words hypocrite, charlatan or even dare I say Liar, allow me to educate you to my reason if not my rhyme. I am of course an educated man, a man of letters (my favorites being; R, I, A, quickly followed by 'hansom man'. But I digress) for I have allowed myself the luxury of niceness for a one week period which we will call One Week in December BC (before Christmas) and in this week I will not think nasty on anyone.

I sit here now with a coffee, one of the things that make me truly believe there is at least one god. Coffee is one of those marvels of life, its makes me happy, takes away my headaches, lets me drift off to tropical climes amid the sounds of tribal drums pounding a staccato of, drink me pretty people; drink of my toasty goodness (or is that just an ad I have stuck in my scull?)

Coffee really is one of my favorite smells though, along with frying bacon and freshly baked bread. I don't know why but it has that homely earthiness to it, which is funny because I can't say I remember those smells from my own childhood.

Mind you I can't remember very much of my childhood at all. Either I have reasons to have blocked it out or if as I suspect I was never a child. Born at the age of sixteen to a poor family, life was a struggle for a spotty fattish adolescent who's parents dressed him as a baby. Nah maybe not.

Well anyway that is my plan, I am the NICE GUY, I will report my progress here and regale you with stories of the great deeds I done onto others and the non nastiness I have spread.

until then, have a wonderful and rich week

Happy Rabbit.

Back to basics

Hya Humans.

I seemed to have drifted a bit of late, my rantings are less rantier and there appears no meat in my message, I've gone soft.

No more. Its pith you will be getting, opinion by the stuffed throatful, bile by the.. by the.. umm bile ductfull. Having said all that, all I'm gonna give you is just a list today.

The what really shits me for 2005 list.

• Political Parties, there is no "party" in Party. An oxymoron if I ever saw one, but more moron than ox I'd say. The factionised system we have in Australia just doesn't work, especially when you only have two points of view; the Liberal its WHITE as in hooded sheet white and the Labour its BLACK as in we are all going to die its all so bleak black. Come on guys give us an alternative or at least an opinion that didn't come from the doctors of spin.
• terrorists didn't create everything in the universe that is bad so far this century, they can not be blamed for every bump in the nite and we don't need a gung ho government response that takes away our liberties with every new decision. We are creating a decision making machine that over responds and manipulates the facts for its own purposes and blames it on unrelated "it might happen here" speculation (you can almost see a gleeful John Howard rubbing his tiny little hands together with every new hint of calamity. "oh boy more 50's regulation and repression for you")
  
• Television from hell, the commercial networks are treating us like they have an monopoly of our time. Oh forget I started this comment I forgot they do, a thousand apologies mr's Murdoch and Packer. Well that bloody pay TV service is a disaster anyway, more ads than all the free to air networks put together, what Packer and Murdoch have big stakes in that as well, I'll just shut up then OK.
  
• Princess Mary, no no no, we still don't have an Australian Prince. Denmark has a new prince, we got rid of a Tasmanian woman. Good luck to all.
  
• Those sick F@#$s in Sydney who tortured a small dog until it died, if I had unlimited funds I'd pay what ever it took to have them beaten to a pulp and left on their parents door steps. Why do so many animal torture stories come out of Sydney?
  
• Industrial reforms. We have Low unemployment, growing economy, stable interest rates, so why do we need to completely change what on the whole must be working. Oh yeah the big end of town wants more.
• Daryl Sommers, Australian Idol, survivor, Ronny Johns. etc, etc, etc THEY ARE ALL PUS

This is just a tempter I'll add to it as I think of stuff that I really hated this year, there is lots I promise you.

Well that your lot anyway.

Go off and be human somewhere and leave me out of it.

Rabbit

Politicide of a nation

Yeah Hi, yada yada yada.

I'm still on a semi politic bent this day, and I'll throw my opinion at ya. (for your benefit I may add)

Industrial reform !!!!
we're about to go through the biggest shakeup this country has seen in fifty years. The incumbent is going to smash apart what Unions (not all bad) and some very brave people have taken 100 yrs to put together, all in the name of progress and the betterment of the working stiff.

It wouldn't take too many fingers to be able to count how many positive industrial changes any conservative government has ever rushed through parliament. And just to give us some cake with our icecream, we are also going to foot the bill for an extremely exorbinent advertising campaign to tell us this is all for our benefits and is for the worker not the bosses.

Now I have been called a cinic in the past but come on, what an entirely opportunistic time to bulldoze it through parliment.

• We have no effective opposition party, which is sadder than it first appears, because the opposition party is the political arm of the union movement in this country and is so quiet on this matter it is frightening.
• The current feeling amongst your average voter is one of dont rock the boat, they are blinded by a feeling of inpending doom, with terrorist attacks forcast for our shores, inflated petrol prices, eninant tax hikes, a falling property market and with just about everybody financialy streched to the max.
• The union movement have so distanced them self from the average family and seem so radical to a generation who have had it so good because of them, that they seem irrelevent.
• I really get the feeling that a lot of people just dont have the energy left to argue anymore, nobody want's to give their employer any reason to give them the flick. Its better to be a small target and not make a fuss.

A sad state of affairs indeed. While as a nation we all seem brash and loud yobs, actually we have always been a bit conservative under the skin, but I think in the past we have kept a pretty good balance. Not anymore though, a hush has fallen over the land, its with tails tucked firmly between legs we go about our business now.

And you know what the real sad thing is, in two or three or maybe more years time, when conditions are so erroded; some brave people will rebuild the union movement and start on an 100 year battle to get back what we have today.

Humans, Learn from history for F@#$ sake.

CYA (while I'm still allowed to write)

Now when I said we should..........

HMM I thinks me spoke too loud, Some bottom feeders just went boom again. A pre-emptive blogg? When I said maybe we should just blow the shit outa someone in my last blogg, I was being sarcastic guys.

I'm really not taking the piss, but I really don't know what to say that would not sound patronising, could be seen as important or significant, I don't think I need to be poignant and any sane person doesn't need to say what is an obvious sentiment, so I wont add my two cents worth (+GST in Australia) Apart from to say, you've just gotta feel for the people of Bali.

Its coming up to mid week when my favorite wordsmith (nah I cant do it, I hate this human, this cretin, this... this... now calm down, it'll be ok... aaagh) Sorry.
Andrew Bolt will be writing his pap piece for the Herald Sun and you can bet he'll

1. State some obvious,.
2. Chest thump how its now so important to close our borders to match our minds.
3. That we should listen to this great wise and protecting government that we have been blessed with.

Do your self a favor and click onto this site www.crikey.com.au. Its slightly unbiased, reasonably balanced, Much better than main stream and apart from a few personal vendetta's, covers the Australian climate pretty ok.

Well I'm gonna leave you with this small offering and say.

Cya Humans.

Around my head in thirty seconds.

Ok, OK. So I've been a bit tardy.
First I lost my old email address, then I forgot my login, ..... Then I ran out of excuses. CRAP... It took me about 2 emails and 30 seconds to re-establish contact with my Blog, so I guess it boils down to care factor.

But really I do care and I do want to write more, you lil people out there deserve more of me and it's my duty to lavish it upon you all. (Hmmm that's the best I've got for you, from 6 months of not posting, sad aint it?)

Don't know if you've noticed, but the world seemed to get even uglier in the past few months, every time I get gooey over something nice, some human goes and blows it. The stupidity of those we put in charge just beggars belief, although I'll stick to my mantra and scream "I didn't vote for the bastards". (note, I always hate that full stop after some other punctuation. Should it be there? Doesn't look right! God I anguish over the little things)

It spooks me sometimes to think that maybe I'm the odd one out and consensus says we should just blow the shit outa someone else, we should decimate a few trees because three guys in country whoop whoop need a job, we should kill any beast, bug, bush or bird; just because we can, or in South Park Speak "It was going to attacked me first"

Note to all those swimming around the wet edges of Australia, "that's where sharks and crocodiles live, yes they bite. No, you are the one with the large brain, use the F@#king thing.

I've discovered a very important rule in politics recently, one which should help me when I finally get up the courage and decide to run the world (or just the interesting bits at least) When everyone says, "don't do it, your just digging a hole for yourself". Start digging and dig fast and frequently and when you are so far down, so deep, everyone then says "well we have to do it now, it would be stupid to stop and leave it like this". Instant consensus. (I should be charging you for this stuff, you know that don't you?)

Well my thirty seconds are up, I'll write at ya's real soon I promise.

Cya Humans.

One Wallow does not a summer make.

Yeah I know bad pun on this title, but I'm still having a go at self pity for a few more days yet.
Actually I'm starting to find the going a bit easier this week, I'm still rather pissed off at myself for the way I"m feeling, but as they say time heals all fools. (well I said it anyway)

At times I think I expect too much from my friends and don't hold myself up to the same standards. I talk up the fact that I don't care about relationships, or that I'm single by choice but I'm starting to think that my defenses are crumbling. Maybe I care a bit too much.

Friendship is a double edged sword, I want my friends to be exclusive to me, when I'm not there they should be in a sort of limbo just waiting for my needs. Now don't get me wrong (again) my friends aren't all single and lonely, 99.827% are in relationships and I'm very happy with that. But... I hate those buts. I still have no answer to those fluttery feelings in my gut when I think too hard about this changed situation.

Anyway this is the last that I will be thinking, talking, typing, philosophizing about this topic. I'm over it. Back to normal nastyness from here on.

Cya Humans.

There Be Pirates.

Ok I don't know why I chose that title, it jumped into my brain and wouldn't leave. So I'm gonna pretend it was planned and has something to do with my logic being hijacked and pillaged.

I've had a couple of sleepless nites lately, all my own doing I'm afraid. I took something a friend told me and blew it all out of proportion in my tiny mind. Not entirely sure why, but I got angry at what I was told, not with my friend mind you but very much with myself, I couldn't believe that I was going through a roller coaster of emotions, (you can fill in all your favorites if you like) I'll just add these ones to get you started; sadness, anger, guilt, jealousy, a healthy smattering of depression, that fluttery sort of feeling you get in the pit of your stomach and oh yeah, a sudden bit of loneliness.

Now what's really annoying is, that nothing has changed in my life, or in most part anything that directly relates to or effects me. But effected I feel. Now I bet you all want to know what this heinous crime was, well I'm not gonna tell you, coz its no ones business but my friends and its not anything major or earth shattering either.

One thing I now know, I left out one other emotion, fear. I think I'm scared that our friendship is going to be over and none of it will be down to her. I've been there through the same sort of thing before and this is no different, but this time I feel threatened by the change and I have no right to and let me add no control over how I feel either.

Now before you jump in with something like you hated your father or something similar, you can forget the analyzing I've done it to myself to the point of distraction.

Its those bloody Pirates I tell you, stole a mans logic.

argh be hearty my humans.

PS More self pity as it comes to hand.