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REVOLUTIONARY MOTHER

Concert clothing cop Marieke Hardy attends her mother’s community singalong:

My mother’s gospel choir - plus other songstrel folk - participated in guerilla group singing in the middle of Melbourne. They took their message from the steps of the State Library, to the GPO, to Federation Square, and Flinders Street Station. Uninvited.

Everywhere they went, they stood as one and sang with one voice: Vote the bastards out. Vote them out. Vote the bastards out.

Gospel choirs sure have changed.

People stopped and stared. Some joined in. Others hollered support. There was electricity in the air.

Electricity in the air? In central Melbourne? That would be the overhead tram lines.

I cried at one point.

Only one?

Posted by Tim B. on 11/23/2007 at 01:19 PM

  1. . There was electricity in the air.

    “Don’t Tase me, mate!”

    Posted by paco on 2007 11 23 at 01:33 PM • permalink

  2. What else would you expect from the daughter of a traitor and a commo?

    Posted by murph on 2007 11 23 at 01:36 PM • permalink

  3. Oh, yes, and there’s the inevitable, “I cried at one point.” Emotion=compassion=moral authority. Pure BS. As a fellow once said, nothing weeps more readily than a block of ice.

    Posted by paco on 2007 11 23 at 01:42 PM • permalink

  4. Gospel choirs sure have changed.

    Yes they have. You should hear The Fred Phelps Five, belt out…O’ Fuckin A, O’Fuckin A. From their smash album…Hate for the love of God.

    Not bad, really.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 11 23 at 01:46 PM • permalink

  5. Guerilla group singing.  The perfect activity for an only child raised by a nitwit to be a nitwit.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 11 23 at 02:06 PM • permalink

  6. Healthy females outgrow the drama-queen stage by age 25, at the latest.

    BTW, for those who remember and for some reason might care, I survived the party at the left-wing filmmaker’s house in Portland last week. We were greeted by a crayoned “END THE WAR” sign on the front door, which prompted my Republican wife to say, “What have you gotten me into?” But the conversation was polite and apolitical, and we got our jabs in simply by bringing chicken-salad sandwiches (I knew I scored when a (rather fat) woman asked about the lasagna, “Is there any meat in it? Is there anything here I should worry about having meat in it”? I helpfully offered that the chicken salad might be a problem. And wondered how many fields of asparagus she must mow down every week to be so enormous.)

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 11 23 at 02:07 PM • permalink

  7. “I cried at one point”.

    So what? I barfed throughout.

    Posted by Merlin on 2007 11 23 at 02:07 PM • permalink

  8. #4: I think some of the traditional tunes have been modified to suit the leftist larynx. For example:

    “What A Friend We Have in Kevin”

    “Onward Christian Shirkers”

    “Rudd of Ages”

    “Ave Julia”

    “The Hallelujah Chorus Ballet” (featuring Peter Garrett’s"Spastic-Chicken-Steps-On-The-Third-Rail” choreography)

    One has to keep up with the times, you know.

    Posted by paco on 2007 11 23 at 02:10 PM • permalink

  9. “I cried at one point.”

    I swear I cried just reading about it.
    [/sobs]

    Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 11 23 at 02:11 PM • permalink

  10. Dave S.,
    You must be in Melbourne or wider Victoria.

    Correct me if I’m off the mark.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 11 23 at 02:17 PM • permalink

  11. #10

    Dave S. is in Maine I believe.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 11 23 at 02:23 PM • permalink

  12. #6

    If she is that big and a vegan shouldn’t she be purchasing carbon offsets?

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 11 23 at 02:25 PM • permalink

  13. Forgot…The Fred Phelps Five, have a hot new single…Calpyso beat, ala Harry Belafonte tune it is…

    Give me de Banana….GAY-O.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 11 23 at 02:30 PM • permalink

  14. #13:  Ha!

    I sense that y’all are somewhat confused.  This is the “gospel” according to Marx, Engels and Lenin.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 11 23 at 02:42 PM • permalink

  15. Non-meat-based diets can be very fattening.  Cows aren’t carnivores.

    Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 11 23 at 03:33 PM • permalink

  16. I’m pretty much a dyed in the wool NSW loyalist but I have to say that Melbourne beats us hands down when it comes to raving lunatic female lefties.

    Posted by Harold on 2007 11 23 at 04:04 PM • permalink

  17. Marieke cried, but eardrums died!

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 23 at 04:26 PM • permalink

  18. oh, Tim, how could you.
    That photo of the tram is obviously fake.

    Blue sky? Ha ha ha!

    #5
    RebeccaH, is it nature or nurture? Genetic or environmental?

    #6

    And wondered how many fields of asparagus she must mow down every week to be so enormous

    you lot kill me. Perhaps they bale it up for her?

    #8 Paco
    Was looking for a picture of railway in Australia showing overhead wires (we don’t have the third rail on the east coast, not sure about WA) and I found this picture of Central Railway Station, Sydney c. 1931.
    It’s changed a bit since then.
    Gosh, that place is a treasure trove for train nuts!

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 23 at 04:38 PM • permalink

  19. Guerilla group singing?  Outside of Melbourne that’s just called busking.

    Posted by romeo on 2007 11 23 at 04:42 PM • permalink

  20. Red diaper baby. Figures.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2007 11 23 at 05:03 PM • permalink

  21. Dave S. is in Maine I believe.

    Yep, I should have specified which Portland. There’s, like, a thousand cities named Portland.

    Oddly, though, America’s two Portlands are pretty much exactly alike, except the ocean’s on a different side.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 11 23 at 05:26 PM • permalink

  22. Lefty gospel group. I cried at one point.

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 11 23 at 05:55 PM • permalink

  23. Gospel choirs sure have changed.

    Mine eyes have seen the spectacle of Kevin eating wax,
    He’s making out a list today, of things he’s going to tax,
    The unions are behind him, so we’d better watch our backs,
    His truth is up for sale!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 06:06 PM • permalink

  24. #23: First rate lyrics, Albury!

    Posted by paco on 2007 11 23 at 06:09 PM • permalink

  25. Nice singalong, Fuckhead!

    Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 11 23 at 06:24 PM • permalink

  26. #24

    First rate lyrics, Albury!

    Inspired by your own chuckle-worthy hymn titles, Paco! Seeing that “Battlehymn” was still available, I rushed in to grab it.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 06:25 PM • permalink

  27. #25

    Nice singalong, Fuckhead!

    LMAO

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 06:26 PM • permalink

  28. I see the Paco corp, ‘tardbots are out to influence a late swing to Howard by assembling in public places and reminding the public why they voted lib in the first place.
    I wonder how many undecided voters saw this herd of smug and made up their minds on the spot?

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 23 at 06:29 PM • permalink

  29. I still like that little photo of the Great Messiah, Kevin, on Marieke’s site, with the attached helpful caption “Don’t Fuck It Up!”

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 23 at 07:11 PM • permalink

  30. Just as well she’s not on the Gold Coast - she would have cried buckets.

    http://tools.goldcoast.com.au/admin/gallery_images/2007/11/21/10555.jpg

    Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2007 11 23 at 07:21 PM • permalink

  31. “There was electricity in the air”.  There won’t be any electricity anywhere if Chemo Garret and Bob Brown hat have their wicked ways.

    Posted by Howzat on 2007 11 23 at 07:27 PM • permalink

  32. #28: On the contrary, Old Top. The Paco ‘tardbots are wearing Garrett masks and doing their imitation of a-scalded-cossack -in-the-final-stages-of-cholera dance.

    Posted by paco on 2007 11 23 at 07:37 PM • permalink

  33. I cried at one point.

    Someone pointed at her and she cried? Eeech!

    Posted by SandiM on 2007 11 23 at 08:44 PM • permalink

  34. It was easier to read than Catherine Deveney’s recent dribble, just. I think Marieke is angry foul-mouth lefty and Catherine’s pour-my-bleeding-heart-out lefty. Neither is worth the time of day, but if I had to choose, I’d read Marieke, even if her self-depreciation’s as fake as Pam Anderson’s tits.

    Which reminds me - catch the Camel Toe song, El Cid?

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 11 23 at 08:48 PM • permalink

  35. #25 - Comment of the day!

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 23 at 08:50 PM • permalink

  36. #35 Thanx fuckheadOops esteemed Mr Tiger

    Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 11 23 at 09:41 PM • permalink

  37. #36 Jack: Your cut to the chase reminds me of that scene from The Maltese Falcon, where Sydney Greenstreet and Humphrey Bogart meet for the first time to discuss “the black bird”, and Greenstreet pours them both a drink and says, “Here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding.”

    Posted by paco on 2007 11 23 at 09:53 PM • permalink

  38. Go easy on Marieke Hardy. Her career has peaked, and her blog (along with its small, tight-knit collection of commenters, some of which are simply Marieke using a pseudonym) is all she has left.

    Posted by Apple77 on 2007 11 23 at 09:59 PM • permalink

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