Disney is running out of fairytale princesses. They’re the marketing core of Disney’s business with little girls, and they’re running out of fairytales to turn into movies!
I have a solution. Well, two, but the first one is ‘remake the old stuff’ and that doesn’t really count.
The solution is, use operas. Tonnes of princesses in operas. Lots [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Disney’s Princesses
29 October, 2008
Woomera
28 October, 2008
Every now and then, you find a small bit of the world where a lot has happened.
Woomera is in the middle of nowhere and they’ve tested the british rocket programme there, launched spaceships into orbit, tested nuclear bombs there and built a concentration camp for ‘illegal’ immigrants there.
When I went to Europe, you couldn’t walk three feet without [...]
On Racism
27 October, 2008
“I ain’t white, I’m Australian. My skin colour is sunburnt.”
Australia
26 October, 2008
Things I love about this country:
- You can go to jail for not voting.
- Our national heroes are a bank robber and a horse.
- Our most solemn national holiday celebrates a military defeat.
- EVERYTHING can kill you. I’ve almost been killed by trees more than I’ve almost been killed by snakes.
- When it rains, people say ‘Oh, good.’
- We [...]
Neil Gaiman
23 October, 2008
“She killed herself, and now her ghost sits by the curbside as they take her body away, waiting to feel happy.”
Paraphrased from “Endless Nights.”
Ranting is good for site hits
16 October, 2008
Wow, I rant for the first time and quadruple my hits.
That’s right. I got four hits!!!
What’s wrong with a bill of rights?
15 October, 2008
I don’t usually leave opinions up here. Considering that only 3 people view this regularly, I’ll probably lose their patronage if I started ranting. So this will be a rare thing…even though every other blog does it.
A bill of rights is a good thing….if you don’t have a strong, independent judiciary like we have in [...]
Treatment
14 October, 2008
Picture a world where all the urban myths are true.
“1983″
James Turk is a down on his luck crocodile hunter, paid piecemeal for every croc he kills in the sewers of New York. His life takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally rescues a homeless man from an angry mob. The homeless man turns [...]
The Furies
10 October, 2008
Erinyes, Eumenides, gracious and angry. The earth’s personification of revenge and anger of the dead.
I swear, there’s a horror movie involving armies of hot angry babes in there somewhere.
