Happy New Year!
Monday of 2026, and so much has happened already. We’ve had the spectacular raid on Maduro’s fortress on Saturday, and now he’s in US custody. It took about 5 minutes for the progressive talking points to drop, and predictably the Age newspaper was one of the first cabs off the rank. Yesterday’s front page was a smorgasbord of anti -Trump loathing. Later on in the day we started hearing and seeing this all along the shit stream media watchtower. “Trump’s Iraq, yada yada yada.”
My least favorite was Ben Saul’s opinion piece, “Australia should not lie in bed with a shameless dictator like Trump” You know what? Fuck off Ben, and in the chariot you rode in on. Ben’s a fucking moron, and a hateful one at that, but that’s just my opinion. You can make up your own mind. Shameless dictator? Trump arrests an actual dictator and this shit head says Trump’s the dictator? For fuck’s sake, get some new material. You’re a loser.
Just so you know what Ben is really about….”In November 2023, Ben Saul was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-terrorism and Human Rights. His first report laid out his plans for his term, and stated he would continue his predecessor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin’s focus on counterterrorism’s impact on civic space, the dangers of mass surveillance and detentions of terrorist suspects, but that he would also focus on the risk that the use of “administrative measures” to restrict individual liberties to combat terrorism can threaten human rights, and the question of accountability and reparation for large-scale violations of human rights in the name of countering terrorism.” (Wikipedia)
“It’s the Benny Saul Show” Think of the poor terrorists.
So in other words, good old Ben is the champion and savior of terrorists world wide. The poor terrorists human rights are at risk, and we can’t have that can we? Yes, another “human rights” lawyer, who cares little for the rights of anyone other than the assholes who want to take yours away by whatever means possible, including, but not limited to violence on a grand scale, but Trump’s a dictator because I said so. Fucking Ben. I’m not seeing him helping the poor buggers that the governcunt have locked up Down Under because they (and the rest of us) are sick of diversity and mass immigration that nobody asked for.
The Maduro thing was interesting because he literally flew over my house on Saturday night. The airport where he landed is about 10 minutes away from here. I was tempted to drive over and take a look but it was fucking freezing cold outside. I watched it all on TV instead. I had to turn it off because I was sick of hearing the dumb BBC reporter saying manhah-in. I don’t know how ghetto speak became popular in some circles, it’s curious, not to mention jarring on the ears. The hard T’s are silent, and H’s are added to words like strange or strong. It’s pronounced Man-hattan, not manha-in.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do this week. I thought about buying another guitar but then I looked through my inventory and realized there were perfectly good axes I hadn’t played much at all, and maybe I should try them out again instead of leaving them hanging on the wall gathering dust.
I also discovered a VHS tape of a show that I had done a long time ago at the Crystal Ballroom in Melbourne. It may well have been one of the first incarnations of the Armchairs ever seen. We had a semi regular gig there in the downstairs part where the food and “champagne” (Laurie Richards version of it anyway) was served. It was kind of off Broadway away from the main acts upstairs. Anyhow, we could do pretty much anything we liked, and we did. Johnny Topper and I wrote a song ,”Disco To Dawn” which mentions it.
This line up was Fred Cass on bass guitar, Gerry Joyce on guitar, Andrew Snow on drums, and myself on keyboards and vocals. This thing was videotaped by Jody Borland on an ancient (even back then) monotone video camera and recorder that may have belonged to RMIT. Anyhoo, somehow the ABC got a hold of a copy and they were going to run part of it somewhere on some bloody show. The only problem was that the quality wasn’t too good. I got a VHS dub back with fucking time code burnt into it and the label saying “poor quality”.
Very poor quality
Well I had no idea… Whoever the imbecile was who has transfered it, had put the timecode at the top of the frame effectively masking everyone’s faces for a lot of it. Thanks dipshit. Now however, with the magic of AI, I think I can get rid of the pesky time code and almost restore it back to the way it was. Kind of shitty looking but without numbers on somebody’s head. We’ll see….
That’s what I’ll be doing this week among other things. The new year has just begun, and it’s already very interesting indeed!
Good Day.