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[active_apathy]

Nine are apparently going to start showing Moonlight at 9:30 on Wednesday night (ie, tomorrow). I will, at the very least, try to save the game of cliché bingo¹ for episode two.



Next on the list: graffiti. Not in general; just one very particular bit of graffiti, that puzzled me more than most. I have no idea what it was supposed to end up as, but one 80 speed limit sign kind of on my way home has been spraycan-edited to '80c'. Yes, that 80c - you too can now go 80 times the speed of light for, oh, 500 metres or so³, and presumably get home before you've even left⁴.

Presumably, one day archaeologists are going to see that sign and assume that, in this one place, superluminal personal road transport was reasonably commonplace. Or, alternatively, that the past had stupid people too.



Lastly, and very literally straight from the headlines: Coalition MP 'stripped and handcuffed to pole'. From the story:

A senior Coalition politician has been outed visiting a Russian strip club, where he wound up stripped to his underpants and handcuffed to a pole.

...

"The partly clothed senator fled the St Petersberg joint after a fight broke out between Russian sailors and other patrons," a Sydney newspaper reports today.

Apart from a reminder that the Coalition are our right-wing types, there's... really nothing to add. Except, maybe, clothes⁵.



And that's about all there is for the moment. *clicks post*

1. Like buzzword bingo, but with more of an "Our-Vampires-Are-Different" ² feel.
2. That may be the first time I've ever seen the phrase "Naked Space Vampire Movie".
3. May not be 500 actual at-rest metres. Check length contraction in your local relativistic reference frame for more information.
4. Whether that's 'left home', 'left the office' or 'left infancy' may depend on traffic. Check simultaneity in your local relativistic reference frame for more information.
   
5. If we did present the Nationals with clothes, would they maybe start having independent thoughts instead of just sitting in the Liberal party room, wringing their tea towels and ironing their hands? Discuss.
   

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[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Lastly, and very literally straight from the headlines: Coalition MP 'stripped and handcuffed to pole'. From the story:

A senior Coalition politician has been outed visiting a Russian strip club, where he wound up stripped to his underpants and handcuffed to a pole.

...

"The partly clothed senator fled the St Petersberg joint after a fight broke out between Russian sailors and other patrons," a Sydney newspaper reports today.

Apart from a reminder that the Coalition are our right-wing types, there's... really nothing to add. Except, maybe, clothes.

Okay, this just goes to confirm that the right wing types are just really repressed.

Also, how did Australia's right wing party become known as the Liberal Party?

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

If we did present the Nationals with clothes, would they maybe start having independent thoughts

No, they'd just keep gnawing at the brims of their Akubras.

And Moonlight. I hope your cliche bingo game involves really small prizes, or you're going to be broke soon.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hee, no. No prizes, just the satisfaction of winning.

Or! It may be possible to rig the cards with things no-one ever does anymore, like "vampire has compulsion to count".

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I... have no idea, actually. Such are the mysteries of Australian politics.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Red-haired Serbian vampires! Untying shoelaces!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Religious icon flashcards! Chain-smoking English vampires with chips in their heads!

[kittydesade.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I should have played vampire cliche bingo. It would have made watching Moonlight actually enjoyable.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I think it's a sign of its, er, quality, that we're getting it riiight when the summer non-ratings period starts - and for the most part, our non-ratings periods make yours look like the forefront of quality programming.

There will be viewing. And then there will be opinions, and maybe cliché bingo cards, and possibly peals of laughter or horrified squeaks.

[kittydesade.livejournal.com]

That's more than a little disturbing, that is.

Yes. I'm betting on both the laughter and the squeaks, or at least, going by the reactions I experienced when subjected to watching the show.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Much more than a little, I think.

Mm, probably, from what I've heard. I'll try to keep as open a mind as possible. Or, at least, until it's on, at which point I'll be taking notes of clichés and making up an entry in my head, an entry on which it may or may not be possible to smell Moonlight.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Re 80c: I wonder if someone was trying to make it say "eighty cents", in an amusing ho-ho-ho-the-sign-is-for-sale type of way?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Metaquot'd!

[naewinter.livejournal.com]

There's a Wiki page on small-l liberals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-l_liberal

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Whee! :)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

"Arch-traditionalist" seems an interesting thing to call someone, like a kind of arch-enemy of progress.

...

"As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old, and I'd have liked something older, but there's just not many ways to do this without at least some concession to this modern stuff; suction indeed, in my day we just used plebs and buckets. Well, really that's all this is except that instead of sucking water, I'm sucking progress. I've just sucked one year of progress away. I might one day go as high as five, but I really don't know what that would do to my chances for re-election, so let's just start with what we have. What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest. How do you feel?"

[sniper3.livejournal.com]

*snerks*
Glad to know that right-wing repression isn't the exclusive property of the US.

Also, your background image is entrancing. I love the way it blurs out when it goes under the text panels.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

...I already miss comment editing.

Oh, no; not at all. Unless, just maybe, we count it as a side effect of the Coalition doing its level best to turn us into the US while it was in power.

And, thanks! The image is one of Tony DiTerlizzi's illustrations from Planescape, and the effect's based on this effect, which is very much simpler than it looks. It's explained in a little more detail here.

(...I tend to launch into explanations when people say "Hey! I like $effect!", as though there's an implied "how do you do that?")

[sniper3.livejournal.com]

That's good, because when I take an interest in somthing, there always is an implied "How did you do that?", except I don't want to bother people. =p

[naewinter.livejournal.com]

Costello: Howard, you know how much I love watching you work. But, I've got my party's next policy to plan, the election to arrange, my party's leader to murder, and Labor to frame for it.
I'm swamped.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hee! Poor Costello. Well, kind of; he'll probably never have the party leadership, unless his plan was to avoid item: one chalice, poisoned.


Howard: Good heavens. Are you still trying to win? You've got an overdeveloped sense of social policy. It's going to get you into trouble one day.
McKew: Hello. My name is Maxine McKew. You're ruining my country. Prepare to be unseated.
Hello. My name is Maxine McKew. You're ruining my country. Prepare to be unseated.
Hello. My name is Maxine McKew. You're ruining my country. Prepare to be unseated.
Howard: Stop saying that!

[naewinter.livejournal.com]

Battlers: Now! Offer us money.
Howard: Yes.
Aspirational Voters: Power too. Promise us that.
Howard: All that I have and more. Please...
Bennelong: Offer me everything we ask for.
Howard: Anything you want.
Australia: We want our country back, you son of a bitch. *squelch*