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31 October 2005 Something to wrap your fish n' chips with That's The Latham Diaries for ya. It is one of the dullest reads since Bill Wyman published his lists of paychecks and sexual conquests in Stone Alone, and at least he had some interesting people to talk about. Christ, it was boring.
You ever gone to a party or a dinner where you've been seated next to the most boring person in the room for hours on end? That's what this book is like, only much, much worse. Latham is self-absorbed to the point of solipsism. I haven't seen much a monument of self-pity and elevated self-worth in my entire life. Unsurprisingly, Latham sees his election loss as the fault of everyone else. The conspiratorial party machine, a biased media, bad campaign managers, a stupid ungrateful public. Nothing of his own public displays of psychosis, his monumental misreading of the public mood, his cretinous campaign decisions. Boy, are we lucky we didn't elect this psychotic fartknocker as PM. The man may be the biggest loser I've ever seen in my life. Good riddance you worthless cunt, you won't be missed. (PS. I borrowed the book from the library, so the Werriwa Retard won't be getting a cent from me)
Why The Simpsons still rules the roost, and why Family Guy and Futurama don't It's true what the critics say: The Simpsons is a ghost of its former self. Too many lame celebrity cameos, too much self-referential smart-arsey humour, increasingly silly storylines.
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loveable main characters. There's always something to latch onto, something to love in even the weakest Simpsons episodes. The same can't be said of Family Guy or Futurama. At their best, they're as funny, and sometimes funnier than Homer & Co. But there's simply too many dud episodes, and - biggest problem of all - too much time spent on characters who aren't even remotely funny. Family Guy is saddled with the problem that the main character - Peter - is an annoying, obnoxious, moron who the writers seem to give screen time to when they can't figure out what else to do. Peter does exactly three things on the show: -
chuckle like a little girl, over and over and bloody over What's truly baffling is that the writing for Brian and Stewie is consistently brilliant, and that Lois and Meg are such likeable characters. It's as if someone else throws in the Peter Griffin scenes in post-production. DVDs are definitely the way to watch Family Guy: that way, I can fast forward through all of Peter's scenes. Futurama had a similar problem: Bender. Four seasons without a single laugh. Not one. But hey, it was set in the future, so they had to have a robot, right? Bender has less range even than Peter Griffin. He just stood around and shouted "bite my shiny metal ass!" a lot, and was the central character in a truly depressing amount of episodes. A pity, because pretty much everything else about the show rocked. I can honestly say I laughed harder during some Futurama episodes than I've ever laughed at anything in my whole life. When it was good, it was truly brilliant. So why waste so many episodes on such a boring, unfunny character? The Simpsons, for all its current flaws, has never had to drag around so much dead weight.
This is the Sachs MadAss 125.
It's an automatic 125cc road-registerable motorcycle with a wicked little 2-stroke motor. Basically, we have here a motorized BMX and hot little wheelie machine. Damn, I want one bad.
Noam Chomsky praises erroneous journalism when it's politically correct. When even the Guardian rates a lefty intellectual as a paranoid, hypersensitive nut, you know you've got a crank on your hands.....
A great read. And very alarming.
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utterly interminable load of shite drags on for 419 bloody pages. That
fat crybaby, paranoid weasel moans about everything: the stupidity of
everyone but himself, endless 'they're out to get me" conspiracies,
American are idiots, military personnel are murderous meatheads, voters
are selfish bastards, why-won't-anyone-listen-to-me, I really won the
campaign, and on and on and on it bloody goes.
But
it's still the best animated show ever. Why?
