Mick's World Tour

Spokey Dokey Okey 2.0

this is much cool, no?

Here is the link.

Thanks Boing Boing, you're so much better than Bong Bong (drugged out) and Bing Bing (Bing Crospby and Bing Lee fusion).

Savage Chickens

I have discovered a new love - Savage Chickens.

There is a link with every new days cartoon on the right side panel of this blog. Today's is Vacation. Click it for your daily dose.

Here is one from the archives.

P.S. The author is not the guy from the wonder years, although that would be funny.

The Wild Adventures of Simon and Michael

Once upon a time, there were two mischievous boys named Simon and Michael. They would play all day in the park or up in the woods behind Valley View, finding adventures or making them up. Their parents would keep them going with  bread rolls with heaps of ham, loads of lettuce and lashings of green cordial. They would sit on the decking under the pergola and laugh and laugh.

Sometimes they would play cricket with their tougher (and less good looking) older brothers, of course honoring the rules of can't get out on the first ball, electric wickets, one hand off the roof and over the roof was six and out. They were all such good friends.

The day of the school Athletics Carnival arrived and everyone was excited. Simon and Michael planned to have a show down in the final. They'd been practicing along Pangari Close all summer. They both won through their heats and waited for the final. Standing next to each other they both bragged about how they would win.

"I'm going to win." said Michael.

"No, I'm going to win." said Simon.

They could talk, or not talk like this for hours.

The whistle blew to start the race, they were still talking to each other, perhaps laughing about that time when Simon sat on the roof of the chunder machine as Michael spun it round and round and would not stop. Or the time that they bought chocolate milk from the milko and put it on someone elses account.

They had failed to recognise that the other top runners were in the race. It was to be the hallmark of their lives. Their report cards would read "Michael has ability but lacks attention to detail." "Simon is very cute but needs to concentrate more".

The race included the elite of year 1 Valley View sprinters. Next to Simon (in his only jacket, the bright canary yellow of Wyoming Tigers) is another Simon (one famous on this blog) who at the time was the dark and mysterious young man (boy). He wore brown because it brought out the dark and mysterious young boy (man) that he was and also because it was school uniform colours and was easy to clean.

Next to Simon, in stark contrast, was Smiley Scotty Bennett. The lean, mean, karate machine who would make a reputation of diving on basketball courts even after the ball had gone out. He would become a veritable Bob the Builder, being the only local kid with a job at 16 that didn't involve a name tag and stupid hat.

Next to Scotty was Arthur,  known as the kid not appearing in this blog.

Standing at the end, hugging himself to keep in the warmth, was Russell Murphy. The quiet one.The one that no one expected to even make the final. The one no one expect to win.  And he didn't.

As Scotty crossed the line in first, Simon, the Curly, and Michael, the boof head, were at about half way, and already starting to cry that this sucked and wasn't fair. Their feelings were boosted by the fact that they still beat the other Simon who had fallen when Hayley Deane (sitting behind them in the photo) had tied his shoelaces together. Kylie Smithson next to Hayley, thought it was the funniest thing she'd seen since Peter Gattenhoff had run into that tree at recess on Tuesday.

Simon and Michael were upset. They were angry. They blamed each other.

"That was your fault." Simon said through the tears.

"No, it was your fault." Replied Michael through his own.

"I'm not your best friend anymore." Simon said through the tears.

"I'm not so sure I ever loved you you ever were." Michael said through his own.

To be continued.........

What is the Media that Matters?

Media That Matters

Last night I went to see the 'Media that Matters' film festival. It was an American produced series which includes twelve short films about various topics that do not normally get coverage in main stream media. The thing is that it was played at the Valhalla in Glebe to an audience that I prejudged to be already more interested in these topics than the average person. A bit of preaching to choir. But I enjoyed it and found it interesting.

My favourites;

1. Ithemba - http://www.iavi.org/ - a South African choir talks about life with HIV and the gap between the drugs to keep them healthy.
2. Meatrix - http://www.themeatrix.com/ - information about the realities of corporate farming and the extremely negative side effects. Fun and informative. Information on what you can do in Australia at http://www.themeatrix.com/australia/
3. Bush for Peace - http://www.bushforpeace.us - George Bush speech cut up and rearranged to say what we'd (some of us) like him to say.
4. Art and Subversion - Ron English - http://adbusters.org/metas/psycho/mediacarta/ - a guy who replaces ad billboards with political messages. Love it.

If you have 10-20 minutes, drop by this site and watch some of the productions. They are really worthwhile.

Ginger Kids

Please give generously...

The statistics show that 9 out of every 10 Ginger Haired kids causes 8 times as much trouble as other kids... I can testify to that, since I am a red head!

:)

NOTE: whilst it has been funny to hear from people who think that this is actually true, I must point out that this is really a joke. It is meant to be sarcastic. If you're angry, just try and read it again with a light heart and see what happens. For further reference, I am actually a red head and I find it very funny. Enjoy.

This page sponsored by St Judes School in Arusha Tanzania.  

Now with 342 Comments - a record of some sort maybe!!

Related links;
Episode on South Park on Ginger Kids - http://www.tv.com/south-park/ginger-kids/episode/561203/summary.html

Ginger Dominance - a video documentary (not);
http://wheel.blogs.com/binary/2006/03/ginger_dominanc.html

International Ginger Kids Foundation;
http://wheel.blogs.com/binary/2006/02/international_g.html

Wikipedia on South Park:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Kids

Red Heads and Freckles Pictures;
http://dougbarber.com/red/

Red Heads are a bunch of Wusses:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2923

Any other links we need to add?