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This week’s Continuing Crisis column in the Bulletin mentions Oliver Stone, Mark Latham, Russell Crowe, Hungry Jack, Isaac Latham, Oliver Latham, the Olsen twins, Nostradamus, Judy Davis, John Malkovich, Ross Schultz, Jackie Chan, Heath Ledger, and Morris Iemma. Please do click around at the magazine site for other news and columns.
- Very sad news. Death of the London Daily Telegraph’s Michael Wharton (“Peter Simple”) columnist, aged 92. First and greatest satirist against the modern left – coined phrases “Rentamob”, “Race Relations Industry,” Etc. and a gallery of left-wing and generally obnoxious characters such as the trendy Bishop Spacely-Trellis and the mad psychiatrist Dr Heinz Kiosk. First column published in 1955, last on 20th Jan, 2006. Its quality never flagged. A beautiful writer and a truly great and lovely man.Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 01 24 at 11:04 AM • permalink
- An excellent story line. However, if Oliver Stone figures in the thing, shouldn’t one of the hamburger slingers be an expat American Vietnam War veteran, secretly sprinkling the hamburger patties with ground glass, while simultaneously having flashbacks to the day he assassinated JFK? Or is that too subtle?
- Teehee. Great column!Posted by James Waterton on 2006 01 24 at 01:35 PM • permalink
- #6: Ok, how about this: on his way out of the Hungry Jack’s, Latham bumps into Andrew Sullivan while the latter is carrying one of those twisty-looking ice cream concoctions back to his table. Andrew trips and falls face down in the ice cream. He jumps up and utters several hysterical, Sullivan-type remarks (I can’t think of anything specific at the moment; just remember to use lots of exclamation marks in the script).
- So how long until Paul Martin starts behaving this way? Or am I just not up enough on Canadian politics to know that he always has behaved this way?Posted by Monroe Doctrine on 2006 01 24 at 03:55 PM • permalink
- Subtext? With Oliver Stone it is the text.Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 01 24 at 04:12 PM • permalink
- Great column, Tim – nearly spilled the coffee.
Way OT – this appears on The Australian website:
I AM an American who checks out your website regularly. I read with dismay that my Government has failed to appoint an ambassador to Australia.
This would be troubling for any nation, but is particularly so for yours.
Despite the hype about the “special relationship” between the US and Britain, I believe Australia to be our greatest ally. All Australians I have met have been way, way cooler than the British, more laid-back and drink far better beer.
To top it all off, Australians seem to have some backbone to them.
Because of all this, I am more than happy to volunteer my own services to cementing the relationship between our two countries and hereby suggest that I become the US ambassador to Australia.
Although my present job is OK (I am a litigator), it can get a little dry, and hanging with the surfer dudes near Sydney would probably be a bit more exciting.
Although I have never been to Australia, I do have several qualifications. My very first rock concert was INXS back in the 1980s and I saw Midnight Oil not once, but twice. I also recently read Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman and have also read several books by Peter Singer (though I did not like them).
I thought the kangaroos were hands down the cutest animals in the zoo when I went there this summer and I know how to throw a boomerang properly.
You probably have better connections than I do, so if you get this email into the right hands, it might get the ball rolling.
Dan Herak
Ohio, USSounds like the ideal candidate 🙂
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 01 24 at 08:27 PM • permalink
- #20- we need more litigation lawyers down here; why not sign up a couple of paedophiles, disc jockeys and rappers as deputy ambassadors?
#10- Casting completed– she’s just got to get the acent right, and learn how to gibber like a loon on cue. (Alzheimers may help there).
- #20
He does not mention the prime qualifications necessary for a successful US ambassador to Oz. How much beer can he put away at one sitting? Can he run the embassy barbie properly? If our ambassador can’t meet the best that Oz has to offer in these vital respects, I think our relationship will suffer an irreparable blow. How could Oz continue to support us if our ambassador couldn’t drink one-for-one with John Howard?Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 01 24 at 11:29 PM • permalink
- EmieG : re #5 :
No, a common misconception. Gay Guys like Guys, it’s what makes them Gay, to state the obvious.Pardon, gotta go, just popping down to the local HJs for <strike>a quadruple megawhopper with a shake, double everything and large fries</strike> a light salad or something.
- Can I come, I spent 15 minutes in the departure lounge in Sydney, I like The Easybeats and I actually had toast with Vegamite. I figure I’m just as qualified as anybody else to be the US’s next ambassador to Australia. I even know the difference between Canterbury and Canberra though why any would want to know is a mystery to me.Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 01 25 at 02:55 AM • permalink
- Re #20 Can I apply?
I have a good working knowledge of Australian history, language and culture. I will drink any Australian beer so long as it is cold. Even XXXX. I reckon I could out-drink John Howard if he was given a five day start and I had to use a knotted straw. My barbequed marinated prawns are the talk of the state. I like koalas, kangaroos and wombats. I particularly like kangaroo with a hearty read wine jus and a bottle of Henshke Edelstone. I haven’t been a litigation lawyer for ages. I have an interest in both ARL and AFL codes. I hate soccer. I was despondent when the Brits won the Ashes. I am routinely associated with the ruling neo-conservative clique in Washington DC. I am a strong and outspoken supporter of Israel.
Mind you I am not an US citizen. Is that important?
Very sad news. Death of the London Daily Telegraph’s Michael Wharton
Charles Moore mentioned in the Spectator a few months ago how when Wharton worked at the BBC in the 50s, and Stalin died he said to some colleagues “It’s a pity he was ever born”, they wouldn’t speak to him for several weeks after that.
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