There are some things about bloging that I hate, well three things in particular. I really love most of the aspects of bloging (the community, the creative outlet, a place to air one's views) but I often have so much difficulty with three parts of the blog that I sometimes don't post at all, The Beginning, The Middle and The End. Nah, just fooling, actually I hate coming up with Titles, Intro's and Outro's. The most difficult of those, that most often affects whether there is a post or not, is the Intro. Notice how I handled that with meta this time? Yeah, sharp!
In this issue: News, teh phunny, competition update and a movie a watched in the last few days.
IN THE NEWS
Afrikaans punk rockers Fokofpolisiekar have brought righteous fury down upon themselves in a very Beatle-esc display of blasphemy. Religious leaders are threatening to withdraw church halls as venues for the Klien Karoo Nationale Kunstefees (KKNK) if the organisers allow the band to perform. Sense of humor failure.
The ANC has proposed constitutional change in order to do away with the official position of "Leader of the Opposition". I'm not sure what the official title allows one to do, but trying to getting rid of the position just shows us what the ruling parties attitude to opposition really is. As if we didn't know.
Sudoku has a new world champion. Yes the addictive logic puzzle is now a thrilling spectator sport probably soon to be televised on ESPN. Apparently it's comparative to Darts in excitement levels. "One Hundred and Eighty, What an Athlete!"
A dumb 16 year old daughter of a NG Kerk Domanie has successfully gotten a court interdict against a man she has never met to stop him from distributing or having in his possession any pictures of her exposed breasts and genitals. How would he have gotten these pictures? Did he place cameras in the school showers? Did he hide outside her room with an obscenely large zoom lens? No, she sent them to him, on her cell phone. Read this one, it's amazing how dumb people can be.
Those German's a crazy. A man was given a €400 fine after biting a waitress on the foot. This transpired after the man spilt beer on her foot and she presented the perambulatory aendage in question and demanded that he lick it clean. When the man bit it, drawing blood, she got very upset and had to take ten days off work. Weird.
Alec Erwin seems to be in talks with Transnet unions about the ongoing mass action by their members. Of course next week we'll find out that there were never any talks, there is in fact no organisation called Transnet and the members were hypothetical. Purely based on a pattern of past behavior of course
A women in Covington, Louisiana, has found a very rare and valuable autographed first edition of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. This story would be very boring except for two things. The women who found the 17 volume set in some rubbish said that "Jesus told her to take them" and the book store they talk about in the story is called "The Philosopher's Stone Bookstore", that's a bitchslap right there.
It appears that Slobodan Milosevic may in fact have committed suicide by taking the wrong pills on purpose.
In Korea they've got a problem with excessive yellow snow, even without the huskies.
Has Donald Rumsfeld managed to sway public opinion of the Avian Flu issue for his own financial gain, or is this just another conspiracy theory? You decide.
COMPETITION UPDATE
I like running competitions for the readers here on my blog. So far I've run two, both of which had indefinite running times, they relied on outside circumstances to finish. The Lonely finger challenge was the last of these, and when we found out that it was actually just a lame 5fm ad (honestly it could have been so much cooler) we were deeply disappointed. We did award the prize to the most correct person, but because he was so far from correct I made it a very small prize.
Well it's time for a new competition. I've thought long an hard about what my next offering should be, but I just can't seem to come up with anything. I wanted the contest to run for a finite period and have a clear winner at the end, but I still couldn't think of anything, so I decided that the next prize will be for the person that comes up with the coolest competition!
That's right, all readers will have until the 25th of April to submit contest ideas. At the end of the period the readers, that's you, will have a week to vote on which idea they thought was best and that will become our contest for the month of April. The prize for that contest will be decided based on how cool the idea is, but the prize for this contest is a One Hundred Rand Gift Certificate to you favorite multimedia store (Look & Listen, Musica, Take2.co.za, ect). There you go, you know the prize up front, submit your ideas. I'd prefer you to send me ideas via email so that nobody influences anyone else. My address is schpat at gmail dot com, put "blog contest" in the subject line. I'm waiting for your mail!
There is a catch however, if you win this contest you will not be eligible for the one you suggest. That stops people suggesting that the contest should be for the best male netball player named sean, or something.
TOO TRUE BROTHER
A MOVIE I WATCHED RECENTLY
A few nights ago I saw Angela's Ashes. Man that was a cool movie. It was sad but funny. The characters lived in absolute poverty and some really shitty things happened to them, but they still managed to make the best of situation and have a good laugh most of the time. If you liked other period dramas about poor people who struggled a lot you'll like this one too. What makes Angela's Ashes even cooler is that it was a true story, based on the early life the author Frank McCourt. Oh yes it was a book before it was a movie and the sequel book is call "'Tis".
Schpat Out
In this issue: News, teh phunny, competition update and a movie a watched in the last few days.
IN THE NEWS
Afrikaans punk rockers Fokofpolisiekar have brought righteous fury down upon themselves in a very Beatle-esc display of blasphemy. Religious leaders are threatening to withdraw church halls as venues for the Klien Karoo Nationale Kunstefees (KKNK) if the organisers allow the band to perform. Sense of humor failure.
The ANC has proposed constitutional change in order to do away with the official position of "Leader of the Opposition". I'm not sure what the official title allows one to do, but trying to getting rid of the position just shows us what the ruling parties attitude to opposition really is. As if we didn't know.
Sudoku has a new world champion. Yes the addictive logic puzzle is now a thrilling spectator sport probably soon to be televised on ESPN. Apparently it's comparative to Darts in excitement levels. "One Hundred and Eighty, What an Athlete!"
A dumb 16 year old daughter of a NG Kerk Domanie has successfully gotten a court interdict against a man she has never met to stop him from distributing or having in his possession any pictures of her exposed breasts and genitals. How would he have gotten these pictures? Did he place cameras in the school showers? Did he hide outside her room with an obscenely large zoom lens? No, she sent them to him, on her cell phone. Read this one, it's amazing how dumb people can be.
Those German's a crazy. A man was given a €400 fine after biting a waitress on the foot. This transpired after the man spilt beer on her foot and she presented the perambulatory aendage in question and demanded that he lick it clean. When the man bit it, drawing blood, she got very upset and had to take ten days off work. Weird.
Alec Erwin seems to be in talks with Transnet unions about the ongoing mass action by their members. Of course next week we'll find out that there were never any talks, there is in fact no organisation called Transnet and the members were hypothetical. Purely based on a pattern of past behavior of course
A women in Covington, Louisiana, has found a very rare and valuable autographed first edition of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. This story would be very boring except for two things. The women who found the 17 volume set in some rubbish said that "Jesus told her to take them" and the book store they talk about in the story is called "The Philosopher's Stone Bookstore", that's a bitchslap right there.
It appears that Slobodan Milosevic may in fact have committed suicide by taking the wrong pills on purpose.
In Korea they've got a problem with excessive yellow snow, even without the huskies.
Has Donald Rumsfeld managed to sway public opinion of the Avian Flu issue for his own financial gain, or is this just another conspiracy theory? You decide.
COMPETITION UPDATE
I like running competitions for the readers here on my blog. So far I've run two, both of which had indefinite running times, they relied on outside circumstances to finish. The Lonely finger challenge was the last of these, and when we found out that it was actually just a lame 5fm ad (honestly it could have been so much cooler) we were deeply disappointed. We did award the prize to the most correct person, but because he was so far from correct I made it a very small prize.
Well it's time for a new competition. I've thought long an hard about what my next offering should be, but I just can't seem to come up with anything. I wanted the contest to run for a finite period and have a clear winner at the end, but I still couldn't think of anything, so I decided that the next prize will be for the person that comes up with the coolest competition!
That's right, all readers will have until the 25th of April to submit contest ideas. At the end of the period the readers, that's you, will have a week to vote on which idea they thought was best and that will become our contest for the month of April. The prize for that contest will be decided based on how cool the idea is, but the prize for this contest is a One Hundred Rand Gift Certificate to you favorite multimedia store (Look & Listen, Musica, Take2.co.za, ect). There you go, you know the prize up front, submit your ideas. I'd prefer you to send me ideas via email so that nobody influences anyone else. My address is schpat at gmail dot com, put "blog contest" in the subject line. I'm waiting for your mail!
There is a catch however, if you win this contest you will not be eligible for the one you suggest. That stops people suggesting that the contest should be for the best male netball player named sean, or something.
TOO TRUE BROTHER
A MOVIE I WATCHED RECENTLY
A few nights ago I saw Angela's Ashes. Man that was a cool movie. It was sad but funny. The characters lived in absolute poverty and some really shitty things happened to them, but they still managed to make the best of situation and have a good laugh most of the time. If you liked other period dramas about poor people who struggled a lot you'll like this one too. What makes Angela's Ashes even cooler is that it was a true story, based on the early life the author Frank McCourt. Oh yes it was a book before it was a movie and the sequel book is call "'Tis".
Schpat Out
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