crazybrave

I was excited to hear Paul Barry on RN this morning* saying that the Summer Breakfast show would have a blogger on each morning to blather on about their particular thing.

Ooh! Who’ll be first! How interesting! How will the wonderful diversity of excellent Australian bloggers be portrayed?

I WAS WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Their first “blogger” was Jack Waterford, a name some of you may recognise as belonging to the editor at large of The Canberra Times. He has been a journalist since 1972. I don’t care if the man runs some bloody jumped up page he calls a blog. IT’S JUST THE SAME FECKING DAY, PEOPLE.

A man with a web page perhaps; not a blogger.

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*although not as excited as I always am to hear Fran; I totally ♥ Fran.

“It’s not plausible, it’s not based on anything other than a house-to-house survey,” Mr Howard said.

From the front page of today’s Canberra Times, “Iraq toll study ‘exaggerated’ ” which (really unbelievably this time) is not online.

Hi

I see you’ve become very interested in my site lately. Just so’s you know, I am a mylf, and have no need of milf sites myself. Also, you with the baby peeing pictures – no thanks.

Cheers

Zoe

I’m a big fan of Banksy, the extraordinary English street artist. He’s a pretty popular guy, and even has a Flickr group dedicated to snapping his work.

His latest piece of culture jamming just cracked me right up – sneaking arted-up copies of Paris Hilton’s new “record” into shops, changing the inserts and cd but leaving the bar code so it could still be purchased. This is the new cover (love that sticker):

and some ruder (but not horrid) images from inside are here.

It’s on ebay. And YouTube, too of course:

My favourite bit is the reaction of the HMV spokesman in the BBC’s story:

No customers had complained or returned a doctored version, he said.

“It’s not the type of behaviour you’d want to see happening very often,” he said.

“I guess you can give an individual such as Banksy a little bit of leeway for his own particular brand of artistic engagement.

“Often people might have a view on something but feel they can’t always express it, but it’s down to the likes of Banksy to say often what people think about things.

“And it might be that there will be some people who agree with his views on the Paris Hilton album.”

Yup, it might just be.

A big fat hat-tip to Dean of Dnosauria for all this goodness.