Sunday Morning

Hey all - not too much to report on on the websurfing front yet (news is all Fallujah in my surfing so far - and a few rugby and footy scores checked), but just thought I would put one in the bank, entry wise, so I wouldn't go 36 hours without one LOL.



Went out shopping yesterday, I bought a business shirt, medium blue, some sandals - my old ones were falling apart at the seams - as soon as I got home they went into the bin LOL - and two CDs - Best of Sheryl Crow and Green Day Dookie - yes, I know, I should have had that second one years ago, but just never seemed to get around to it.



Best memories of listening to Dookie for me are having it on while truck touring around Turkey. That, and Crowded House, and Violent Femmes, and The Twelfth Man (Australian comedy album) and just the wonder of being in such a foreign place, and it only got foreigner for the rest of the trip - Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, before the usual tourist traps of Egypt LOL. As an actual trip, would say that that would be near one of my best - Canada trips one and two were possibly better, but only through the addition of having a girlfriend in the mix LOL.



And there were quite a few lookers of girls on that trip, but eh, lucked out on that front with all of them - and yes, it is a defensive move to say you were just looking for friends Paul lol, you were only ever going to know them for six weeks. I guess I was a lot less confident then - and you are any more confident now - well, I say I'm not looking and just needing friends at work, but that is different, I may know workmates for yearsssssss lol. Now, if Angelina Jolie started working for my company, hmm - there is this girl on the train in the mornings that has full lips a la Miss Jolie, and goodness - no, better not go further down that track :)



Had a BBQ last night, my brother's girlfriend's father was over, so we were doing a spot of entertaining. A barbeque just seems to make meat taste better (what with our oven being broken LOL), and my mother does an AWESOME potato salad - with pepper and bacon and its well yum.



Sorry, but I have to go back to Fallujah and this NYT report - amid all the carnage and chaos that is Fallujah, Mosul, Baghdad, Ramadi etc, the last line of the report especially gets me -



' Gazing at the battle through his binoculars, Colonel Formica said, "We're seeing the completion of the liberation of Falluja."'



Liberation, yeah right.



This is an interesting one - Guardian, so beware all you conservatives lol, but is a level headed look at what is going on with the Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip. Makes for interesting reading :) Quote from a sandwich store owner in Gush Katif -



'But my gut feeling is that most of the people here are prepared to take the money and run. There is an incredible amount of hypocrisy. When the media come, they're taken round to the hardliners, but I know the people and what they say in the cafe. They're fed up and all the talki is of leaving. The business of the tunnels is driving people crazy - the mortars, the rockets. The media portrays us as a bunch of ignorant hooligans living on a hilltop by the sea, but we're just the same as anyone else.'



Good quote I think.



I've never thought of Los Angeles as a tourist destination, even less so downtown, but after watching Collateral last week, with its driving around the city, this article attracted me like a moth to a flame - one of the NYT's guides of how to spend 36 hours in a city. And just reading further into the article, who WOULDN'T want to start a day with flowers :)



But a bit hmm on this one - 'Public transportation and taxis can be rare, and pedestrians can expect to encounter transients on many streets after dark.' - or Tom Cruise acting as a mass murderer perhaps LOL.



Hmm, just listening to Green Day's American Idiot, and for some reason had the thought of since when did the Republicans become the Red party of the US of A? Red of course being the main communist colour... thought of that a couple of weeks ago as well, during the campaign with one of the European papers saying sorry to confuse our readership but the conservative party is red in this one LOL.



Sometimes I wonder about music videos. Armand Van Helden's latest, My My My, has three hot girls in bikinis and one train spotter kinda guy dancing around. Yes, I know it is male fantasy incarnate, but really, what is the point? And along the same lines is that remake of an 80s song where there are a dozen girls in revealing lycra and the one guy checking them all out in the gym session - I guess conservatives and John Ashcroft never watch MTV LOL LOL. Let's worry about artistic statues and not so artistic Janet Jacksons...



Leading on from that, ABC was showing Saving Private Ryan on Veteran's Day and some of their affiliate stations were 'afraid' that they would get fined due to the bloodshed and gore and swearing. Oh no, let's protect the next generation of military recruits from what they might find in Iraq - meanwhile, later with Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather take your pick, the latest fighting from Fallujah. Hmmph, if the appropriate warnings are put on in front of the show (or as I found in Canada, after every ad break) what is the problem? You don't watch