Totally Bitchin

It was Elisabeth's birthday on saturday and we were out the whole day doing stuff, we ended up having super at the Starlight Diner, man that place rocks. And it's open 24 hrs a day as zenstar found out on thursday night.

Also a comment made by Elisabeth months ago prompted me to bake her a special kind of cake for her birthday. It was one of those barbie doll cakes where the cake is decorated to look like a ball gown. For my first attempt at baking and my first attempt at decorating a cake I think it turned out pretty well. The final product was ready at about 23:30 on Saturday, just before the end of Elisabeth's birthday. We ate it with ice cream and chocolate sauce, mmm yummy.

Other than that I didn't play any poker but I did watch an interesting movie. "Waiting..." is an independent film about a group of people working in a chain restaurant. It stars a couple of C list actors and involves a very "interesting" game. The film reminded me of Clerks, but only about a quarter as cool. Still a quarter of infinitely cool is still pretty fucking cool!

I also finally got to see the last three episodes of Desperate Housewives Season One, meh. I think that exposure to Lost has ruined serialised drama for me. I hear Prison Break is pretty cool but compared to Lost it'll only be a fraction of infinitely cool.

I did read a couple of stories this morning that I felt were newsworthy enough for me to mention here:

The first is that an "unauthorised" biography on Thabo Mbeki was pulled from air at the last moment when it was discovered that "internal approval processes were not correctly followed". This was supposed to be part of a series of "unauthorised" documentaries about prominent South Africans. Is it just a coincidence that the one about the most powerful person in the company was not aired? This is after even Cosatu has admitted that too much power rests in the presidency.

The second is a story that outlines one of the many reasons I don't trust the police. Read the whole story for all the details but basically a guy was accused of stealing some coke by a security guard when leaving a shop. Even though the guy had handed his coke (purchased elsewhere) in at the parcel counter and could produce a receipt the security guards physically detained him and cuffed him to a pole outside the shop while they waited for the police. That evening, after urinating on himself and being mocked by the security guards, the police had not arrived and he marched off to the station where the police refused to inspect his receipt and he was thrown in jail until a magistrate freed him the next day. Fucktards. All the evidence was there in front of them, but they just couldn't have given a shit. Wankers! The due also lost his job because he failed to turn up for work and when he explained what happened the boss he was fired for having had a run in with the police. BTW this all happened a year and a half ago and now he's suing the government.

schpat out