


I am SO SORRY...
...but I absolutely have to post about another public notice. I swear I'm not hard up for blogging material - this stuff is just TOO GOOD.
From yesterday's tabloid:
' JOHNSON - Gus.
It is with great pleasure that I announce the demise of my past actions. It has been replaced by a more compassionate, loving and caring fellow of the human race. Family and friends are requested to honestly appraise these ideals should I stray.
Many thanks to Fritz, Jill, Henk, all at the Hospital and Max.
- Gus Johnson, former heartless and selfish idiot.'
Once again, there are a thousand possible stories behind this public notice. What on earth has Gus Johnson been up to? Obviously there's been a hospital stay of some description, though whether it's a BRAIN HOSPITAL I don't know. But who is Fritz? Will he or she really appraise the new Gus Johnson 'honestly'?
What exactly has driven him to place this notice in the paper?
It makes me wonder what I would write if I were placed in a similar position. What facets of my personality would I publicly mourn?
' FITS - Ms
It is with great pleasure that I announce the demise of my overt imbibing and cheating heart. It has been replaced by a more flexible, sober and brutally honest fellow of the human race. Gabi and Bob Ellis (dog) are requested to honestly appraise these ideals should I stray.
Many thanks to Mum, Dad, the B, all at the Clinic, and Cadbury's Curly Wurly.
- Ms Fits, former heartless and selfish idiot.'
How do you grieve aspects of your spiritual makeup? Do you not just let them go and move on? Or can your past behaviour be so bad that you will spend your entire life shouting its absence from the rooftops?
Poor old Gus Johnson. He sounds mad as a box of top hats, but I am kind of sweet on him regardless.
597 days til the next election.
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That has "Landmark" written all over it.
Any "education forum" that encourages people to bail up friends and family at perfectly innocent get-togethers (or in nationally published newspapers) so they can find out what people REALLY think of them has got to be a cult.
JOHNSON - Gus has been sucked into the vortex and is unlikely to emerge with even a shred of sanity.
Run JOHNSON - Gus, RUN!
God, that Landmark shit is scary.
'Landmark Education gives you access to what you don’t even know that you don’t know' with accompanying pie graph illustrating 'what you don't know you didn't know'.
???!!!!????
Poor Johnson- Gus.
Actually, sounds very NA 12-step plan, apologising for past mistakes to me. "Sorry I was a junky, still love me and I'll never do it again. KTHXBYE".
Poor Johnson - Gus. But I am mainly keen to find out more about Fritz, Henk and Max, who sound uber-sinister / jaunty.
Maybe he is trying to trick them (Fritz, Jill, Henk, all at the Hospital and Max)into believing he has changed. In reality he is the same heartless bastard and is gunning to do the most damage to them when they least expect it.
You learn how to deceive your 'friends' in the 2nd year of the Henchmanship course.
There was a time when I didn't pay any attention to the people who write to newspapers and call radio stations to express their view that Steve Bracks is a tame premier who lacks a progressive vision for the state of Victoria. Well, my fellow Victorians, that time is over! Steady as she goes? More like heady as she slows! In light of the recent legalization of civil unions for same-sex couples in the mother country, the recent revelations in The Age that a great many Liberal MPs in Australia and the majority of Australian citizens support legally binding civil unions for same-sex couples, the slow creep of the narrow-minded, inflammatory religious right into the affairs of the state, and his all but insurmountable lead going into the next state election, it is nothing short of a disgrace that Bracks prevented soon-to-be ex-Liberal MP Andrew Olexander and others from drafting a same-sex civil unions bill in the Victorian parliament.
I would say that he doesn't have the courage of his conviction, but I seriously doubt he even holds the conviction!
I call on Bracks to not only allow this bill to be drafted in the Victorian parliament, but to grant the people of Victoria the opportunity to vote on it in a plebiscite at the next state election. Even if you are against civil unions for same-sex couples, you cannot deny that a plebiscite on the issue would be a positive move for our democracy and enliven what would otherwise be an election as dull as Bracks himself.
Here's a poem I wrote specifically for those who are against civil unions for same-sex couples in the US. Needless to say, I found this space constricting.
Roar "HIDE"?
Is Bush rollin', rollin', rollin'
with two eyes on the pollin'
and a third on members swollen?
Will he roar "HIDE...bound for sunny weather
and lynch gays with a tether
when Americans need to whiz down nether?
Is Bush really on your side?
Is Bush rollin', rollin', rollin'
with unholy doomsters who don't hear their tollin'
when down the aisle closeted gays go strollin'?
Will he roar "HIDE...bound for sunny weather
and drown the world in leather...
Necks for a nest to feather?!
Hell, Bush might really be on your side!
Pull 'em up, pull 'em down, pull 'em up, pull 'em down,
pull 'em up, pull 'em down,
roar "HIDE"?
Move 'em in, move 'em out,
move 'em in, move 'em out,
move 'em in, move 'em out,
roar "HIDE"?
Ride 'em in, ride 'em out,
ride 'em in, ride 'em out,
ride 'em in, RIDE 'EM OUT,
ROAR "HIDE"?!
NAH! MORE DIED!
So who's with me?
Did you see that "J" got an SMS from his lover, but he accidentally deleted it - I hate it when that happens...
I suppose I should apologise for my bad grammar. I was in a hurry and I haven't had to recall the poem in a while. I have no excuse for writing the word "constricting" instead of constrictive, however.
Now, I must be off. It's such a beautiful evening I have decided to throw bricks through windows of The Age building.
If nothing else, it will provide me with an incentive to start my own blog.
Lordie... I should start buying the Hun.
i had the herald sun in my hands yesterday on a loop train. i forgot to check the classifieds. instead i tore out an article on the maori haka.
i apologise for my heartless and selfishly idiotic act of leaving the paper behind without interesting haka article.
definitely this is a drug/alcohol rehab attonement because of mention of the Hospital. fritz, henk and boringly-named jill are in one group, max is in a group of his own. lover of gus? star-crossed lovers??
this is fantastic.
More rooftop-shoutery?
Soon there'll be no bandwidth left in the Public Rooftop spectrum for me to bemoan the loss of my one true love - Shaun Micallef on the telly.
I suppose I should also apologise for confusing punctuation with grammar.
P.S. I think The Age appreciates the fact I created two doggy doors in the front door to the foyer of The Age building. I haven't heard from the police as yet and The Age knows it was I who did it. Then again, maybe the police are all tied up, what with the Commonwealth games in town. Or maybe, just maybe The Age has something to hide.
I'll give The Age the weekend to have me charged. If I haven't been charged by Monday I'll have to do more damage. I don't think the people who were paid to construct the new glass wall outside The Age building would mind if they had to reconstruct it, do you?
The police paid a visit to my flat while I was out at the internet cafe. I am supposed to give them a call but I think I'll just wait for them to come back and take me in. It beats taking a tram and walking to the station!
Needless to say, I have already created my own blog. Pay me a visit some time.
After over 34 years of marriage, his wife hit menopause and decided she wanted "out".
As for the man himself: he's a LEGEND!
One day we might get to know the whole story.
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