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December 14, 2005

Some Random Things.

BLOG AWARDY THINGOS

I wrote a post about this last week but - and isn’t this becoming a recurring theme? - the internerd slipped out of consciousness and all was lost. As a few of you may have noted, ausculture.com came third in the SmartyBlog awards for the Best Australian blog.

Because we have always tried to emulate tAtU’s career, this was indeed a joy for us. Seriously - we came third in the blog awards and tAtU came third in 2002’s Eurovision contest - coincidence? I think not. Sadly, my attempts to make Patrick dress as a school girl and pretend to be a big muff diver with me have continued to fail miserably. We’ll take what we can.

Here are the blogs who were finalists - I believe the “done thing” is to link to ‘em all.

1. http://www.singingbridges.net/diary

2. http://www.loobylu.com

3. tAtU Wannabes Inc

4. http://www.karencheng.com.au/

5. http://www.problogger.net

6. http://www.trollhattansaab.net

7. http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/tpn

8. http://www.hearye.org

9. http://www.browncardigan.com

10. http://antonyloewenstein.blogspot.com/

11. http://www.camwheeler.com/wine/

So there you have it. Those of you who enjoy a frolic or two in cyberspace may have noted that many folk found the awarding of honours… shall we say, rather controversial? Nevertheless, we entered on a whim and were as shocked as the rest of you to have come third. Still - congrats to all.

However, as the Rock Photogroper points out, there’s another set of awards happening at the moment - The Australian Blog Awards. Go and give some virtual snaps to your favourite bloggers, eh? And no, I don’t mean us. It’s sweet of you to fake it but we don’t pretend to be anything less than a tawdry net fling for you. Vote for your long-term loves, you shameless hussies. Garn!

FAREWELL, ROB CORR!

Everyones favourite Labor man has decided to tell the web to ‘sit on it’ in the Fonzie-ish style he is (not actually) famous for. Or something along those lines. We can only hope that this is because he is attempting to wrassle the Labor Leadership from under everyone’s noses and he’ll eventually become the fellow we’ve all been waiting for him to be… AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER!

DANGEROUS DAVE JOINS THE BLOGOSPHERE!

Here’s a brief time line.

Saturday midday - “You fooken bloggers! Eh? Bet you wish you were blogging now, doncha? Hahaha, bloggers! Fooken nerds, the lot of you!”

Saturday, late afternoon - “Sometimes I get sad when you lazy fookers don’t update.”

Sunday, early afternoon - “(puts arm around me and Kranki and says tenderly) You guys are in my Favourites, you know. Eh?”

Wednesday, morning - “Just to let you know i have finally sucummed and joined the internerd community of world wide bloggers.”

Quickest conversion ever. Go check him out - the blogosphere won’t know what hit it, I suspect.

HOW MANY TIMES CAN ONE PERSON LISTEN TO ‘HAZEL EYES’ BY THE DARKNESS OVER A PERIOD OF A DAY?

Forty, at last count. And I have no plans to stop. ARGHHHHHHH!

FINALLY, WE TALK ABOUT ANGELINA AGAIN!

What Would Tyler Durden Do? have outdone themselves with Jolie related posts.

Firstly, these photos of Maddox and Angelina enjoying some quality mother-son time at the supermarket just about melted my goddamn heart. I would make a great step-mother, Ange.

Secondly, Jenny Shimizu’s talk of making the beast with two backs with Angie had a table full of ladies hearts and loins all a flutter when discussed at dinner last night.

“She is beautiful. Her mouth is amazing. I’ve never kissed anyone with a bigger mouth than Angelina. It’s like two water beds - it’s like this big kind of warm, mushy, beautiful thing. She’s a gorgeous woman.”

Uh-huh.

(sigh)

Tell us more!

“She’s a very dominant personality. Once she displays love for you, she wants to know how much you care about her”

“It’s not so much we were dressed in leather capes and masks and there were chains. It was emotional. I would restrain her with my arms but we didn’t get into buying stuff. We just used whatever props were available if we wanted to.”

Whatever… props… available… I… just… with the… oh…

(faints)

(recovers)

Much - appropriate - thanks to my dear Fruity for alerting me to this. And those of you shaking your head and going “Good god, surely Angelina has become a cliched pin-up for all the les-and-sez-bians out there?” - go and rent Gia immediately. And join us.