Especially since I didn't get a nibble by anyone in the end to go to the cricket (hope it is just a shower at the moment, two hours before start of play) - New Zealand were doing quite well in fact, the batting I was kind of expecting, but with our pop gun bowling attack to have four wickets before Aussie is halfway to our first innings, is good - of course, was better when the fifth wicket hadn't put seventy on LOL. Watched the last hour of play at the pub last night - watching sport is the ONLY excuse you can validly have to go to the bar by yourself LOL. Was kind of hoping I would spot others from work turning up, but when it didn't happen went and did a spot of shopping.
The shopping in which I bought The Sims, Old Skool style LOL, the ORIGINAL rather than the update - unlike my sister, I buy the games to be compatible with my computer rather than buying a new computer to accommodate the games - truly, she bought Sims 2 without even looking at the bottom of the box for tech spec needs. Anyways, that's where I was last night, Simming LOL - addictive little buggers aren't they? Anyways, being on a computer gaming is maybe better than being online forever - at least in the me and V situation, she absolutely HATES the net, even though I have improved a lot from the dodgy Pauly I was in the past - you don't want to know LOL. 90% of the time I spend online now is either journaling or news reading, very little of it is chatting or messaging...
Have the Aussie Top 50 songs going on in the background, and found this review of the top ten of last week - quite good in a witty way, although the only point I probably disagree with is that I don't hate Xtina as much as the livejournaler (yes the opposition LOL) seems to, but yeah, the whole Car Wash video thing is kind of tragic LOL. Also tragic is the fact that a person who didn't even get through the auditions of Australian Idol has a song at umm I think it is eight this week - beat box voice like whatever... god DAMN the month older than the rules thing (I was 28 in April, to be on Idol you needed to turn 28 after June), I could have been up there LOL.
Please pass the sick bag/mute button, here comes Delta LOL.
On the train home last night, sat near a couple of guys who had taken their Dad (looked about sixty five or seventy) to the cricket, and that was an aww moment. And for some reason, they were fellow Kiwis I think, that got me to thinking that the Finn brothers are coming to Brisbane for a concert, and was suddenly in the mood for some old Split Enz and Crowded House tunes, and hmm, maybe a concert I could head to - next Monday, 29 Nov... hmm.
Of course, over the next couple of weeks it is fairly busy - well, Pauly version of busy anyways - three Xmas parties, which is why I haven't been pushing the going out Friday thing the last couple of weeks - although haven't really been knowing what is happening with the girlz the last few weeks anyways - need to do a catch up - Lisa had a girlfriend from Canberra in town, Mel was down in Melbourne, Jo has been quiet... yeah, need to do a catch up.
Hmm, now that is a pretty tragic juxtaposition - big word for the day - following up Alicia Keys on the music show, singing her new one Karma - must be good to be that pretty that talented and be able to make part of your music videos in old Greek or Roman open air theatres LOL - and they followed that up with the Britney Spears Megamix. Ugh, one or two songs perhaps, but bits and pieces of various songs, no thanks. Will she come back, she is only 24 I think and she seems so old hat - Britney this is...
Like really, why do I send myself to depressing stories like this - jury hears the transcript of a police car radio as a constable in the UK gets shot and killed, so if you are not in the mood, consider yourself warned - I am rolling my eyes at myself here for reading it...
And yeah, this is a real hearts and minds operation - let's shoot people in a mosque because they are throwing their shoes at us. Now, unlike the Palestinians, who really do have a pop gun attack compared to the Israelis, I am sure the radical Iraqis have more than enough munitions to hassle the Americans, but raiding a mosque in the middle of Baghdad, where they aren't shooting back, hmm. And yep, a hospital raid in Mosul, and a warning from the Red Cross that all sides are being pretty feral in this conflict...
Now usually Friedman isn't my favourite NYT columnist, but his latest was good - saying that we are at the moment where Iraq could go either way, more chaos or a model for the Middle East.
In amongst all the chaos of presidential hubris and Iraq and living in Gotham, the NYT sometimes doesn't seem like a local paper - but this article made me smile, even though it is at the expense of someone else's misfortune - imagine having 150 year old water pipes :)
Just watching the new Nelly and Xtina video, Tilt Ya Head Back - goodness she is pretty - just wondering what she would look like first thing in the morning LOL. Will just have to wait for her mug shot when she does something illegal - lol, if Hugh Grant can, then anyone can :)
Mmm, this week's 36 hours NYT travel guide is Savannah Georgia - the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil the plot was a bit confuzzling, but the background city was gorgeous :) I guess it is a kind of fascination with me for the South - The Big Easy I liked as well - was thinking the other day of how if I were able to live in America I would actually prefer to be in a red state than a blue one - just to see what it was like, imagining myself in say North Dakota just at the local bar listening to country music or something - and no, not like on Boys Don't Cry, lol my liberalness does not ooze out of me in general life LOL...
Closest I got to the whole country bar feel of life was in Sault Ste Marie at a bar there :) of course, being Canada it was mock American country, lol but there were NFL banners all over the place, and a couple of cowboy hats amongst the drinkers :) hmm, got off the topic a bit there, Savannah and New Orleans are not Grand Rapids or hmm, trying to think of another mountain city and I couldn't think of one, is Milwaukee a red city LOL :) or to be in the bar of the Deer Hunter when they are singing - Can't Take My Eyes Off You - they would be red voters by now I feel, LOL :) wayyyyyyy off topic.
Oh, and how could you keep quiet about a murder for THIRTEEN years??? Another lovely happy story this time from the LA Times - she had gotten away with murdering her husband by saying he had been run over in a car accident. And the body had been in a freezer in a storage unit all this time - eww. Just imagine if that storage unit had been hit by a August last year in the North East and Ontario kind of power outage.
OMG, three bags of marijuana and a gun means 55 years in federal sentencing-land in the US of A. Like the article says, 'That's more time than he would have received if he had hijacked a plane, beaten someone to death in a fight, detonated a bomb in an aircraft and provided weapons to support a foreign terrorist organization.'
This guy had no criminal record before being busted by an undercover fed, and it will cost $1.3 million (not sure whether that's one year or 55) to keep him locked up. Hmm, makes a lot of sense in a country that is as gun saturated as the States :)
And a final word on the whole Saving Private Ryan thing - if I haven't posted it before - Frank Rich at the NYT (what would I do without that and the Guardian LOL) saying that not only is it not OK on US TV to show fake blood and gore from what was all in all a glorious day for the US military (D-Day), let's cut back on the view of the carnage in the latest war, which history still has to decide on gloriousness etc. Reality based news reporting, or questioning the official line is not popular in Washington DC at the moment.
Okies, that seems enough for now :)
Pauly
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