As endorsed by celebrities

Something I find peculiar is the propensity people have to look for famous people who endorse the niche group with which they align themselves. It's never a very honest appraisal either. You can imagine teenaged bints shreiking about how wonderful Paris Hilton is because she likes shoes and is really hot just like me!. And if you are not looking at celebrities themselves, you get comparisons with celebrities closely conflated with characters. I'm so like Samantha, but you're more like Carrie (Why is no-one like Miranda and why do I remember the names?). It becomes a really big complement to say to someone that they are like an actor or character from a programme. Oh Shirelle, it's like Wayne is your Mr Big!
If, like me, you ready trash magazines when they are around, you realise it doesn't stop there. There are personality test and quizes about how much a Bridget Jones singleton we are. Ok so I am outdated on that one. The point is, we are expected to look at an ensemble cast and choose which cliche we are. Desperate Housewives anyone? How utterly boring, and how loathsome I have actually heard people endorsing their own lifestyle choices because some rich fuck enjoys the same pursuits.
What's the point in role models anyway, the individuals presented are generally even more worthless than the rest of us, and hateful to boot since their obvious lack of talent is so richly rewarded.
I guess the moral of this post is, don't encourage them.
And no, I never actually buy magazines so I am not fiscally feeding the promulgation of retardation.

Oh yes, I now have mad skillz

I have just received a complement on my pavlova I made for Christmas.
On an unrelated note, or at least a tangentially connected thread of review. I have just been looking at old threads on Something Awful where I was stunned by a short comment in the celebrity section. Neil Gaiman's daughter sucks at giving blowjobs. This is wrong on so many levels. She is not a celebrity, doesn't even warrant an identity and lets not get started on the terrible opportunity to pun. This may be a back handed complement, only the other day a thread I saw on there started out querying why "fat chicks" love wicked, and degenerated into gobble gobble gobble.
Yeah, it always seems like the threads advertised at the side bar are pretty phobic on that site. I get the impression of a bunch of people who feel pretty cool, much like those using p2p music sharing programmes. Somehow goondom, or collecting music negates the inherent nerdiness of using computers all day.

Surely not that many cool people can exist, all at one time? Totally explodes the notion of reincarnation doesn't it?

Just keeps rollin' along

In honour of our recent visitation, I bring you Kamahl.



He performed in Dunedin on Tuesday, all the classics including the perennial favourite 'Old Man River'. I particularly like this photo, taken from his official website (riddled with typos), even though he is not wearing his more flamboyant kaftans or nehru jackets. I like this picture because it is of Kamahl and Johnny Farnam.

It's like an Ocker overload.