black mamba my ass

First feature article awaits

I'm working on my first feature article for Cosmos, it's about viruses and how great they are. Joy!

Australian Flag banned at Big Day Out

People fortunate enough to listen to 2GB and watch daytime TV, and eventually anyone exposed to the mainstream media, have recently learned that the Australian flag has been banned at the Big Day Out!

Last year there was a bit of violence and unsavoury behaviour committed by some flag-bearers. This was in the aftermath of the Cronulla riots.

This has been a wonderful opportunity for politicians to point out how patriotic they are - more than everyone else.

I don't know about you, but I find the thought of 60,000 Australian flags in a confined, alcohol and drug-laden space a little scary.

Still, are they right to ban it?

As it turns out there is no ban. But there is a discouragement of flags being brandished inconsiderately leading to increased tension. And keep those giant flags at home! Here's what Big Day Out peeps say.

What do you think?

My alter ego

Spam that made my laugh

Vanced Woodards: bibb tubular accompaniment mw

careful consideration reveals that the truly great nonsense must have a bit of sense in it too. For some reason, this one almost makes sense to me. I found myself nodding in agreement, then nodding off to sleep.

Artful Science is back

Did you know that some people with hippocampal amnesia find it hard to imagine things? Shock!

If you'd like to find out more, check out the full story at Cosmos.

I would like to volunteer my tutoring services to indigenous students

Any ideas on where to look?

interview doctoring

Here's a pretty damn funny doctoring of Britney & JT from Weird Al, whose timing is a little off.

It is very reminiscent of some of Tony Martin's work on TripleM.

In case you're wondering, the pic's from Rocky Balboa, the latest and perhaps final instalment in the Rocky series. It was a good move to drop the VI, as that allows us to temporarily forget V.

Jim Carrey reportedly begged Sylvester Stallone to cast him as Broke Pete, Rocky's has-been next door neighbour who inspires him to return to his previous heights of pugilistic prowess. "He told me he was gagging for it," Sly said. "When a man like Jim Carrey begs you, you listen to him, believe you me."

Either that, or it's from The Number 23, coming soon to a thee8r near you. In it, Jim Carrey plays saxophonist Otto Pfister. The star performance is really Carrey's convicing depiction of a man suffering from worms. Critics are openly, freely and broadly tipping him to be nominated for a Tony this year.

Ever since getting tattooed while on a bender in Philadelphia, Carrey has found it hard to find suitable roles in which to display his 'guns'. In #23, they receive approximately 23 minutes of camera time.

The film's backdrop is the Sydney suburb of Petersham circa the early '80s. Carrey's Australian accent was so good, he was often mistaken for Richie Benaud when making phone calls.

Welcome in my new year

It is with Graham Leisure that I welcome you to the new, adjusted blog.

Wow!

Here's the questions, and my own answers, to a new year's survey my friends and i filled out over on yonder evening.

Highlight of the year: Yellow, at several billion light years
Best Song:Next stop Takadanobaba
Best Album: Crash Test Dummies, Songs Of The Unforgiven
Best Musical Experience: Listening to 2day fm
Best book:Oryx & Crake, Margaret Attwood
Best/most drunken moment. Drinking a beer
Lowlight: kind of murky, at the bottom of the ocean
Short-term goals: be at 3.14159... with the multiverse
Long-term goals: Buy the newspaper and burn it

I wonder what your response would be to these questions, unknown reader?