Here’s a variation on fan fiction: fan you tube. Warning: there’s obvious spoilers in there (if you want to look) , but for Aus. viewers, it’s further irrefutable proof that Russell T. Davies revival of Doctor Who is blindingly fugging brilliant. For example: Davies wrote the episode Gridlock, which included an entire culture trapped on the ‘motorway’ how English, women and cats getting married and having um, er, litters of kittens, a pair of married middle-aged lesbians, psychotropic drugs AND the Face of Boe. Whoah!
Not so subtle TdF link – if you’ve been up late you’d recognise the tune above as “The End Has a Start” by The Editors, as SBS used it in their equally blindingly fugging brilliant TdF wrap. NB: except for that nervous bit on Champs-Élysées where they lost the audio feed & the ancient memory of school girl french totally failed me.
You came on your own
That’s how you’ll leave
With hope in your hands
And air to breathe
It’s all getting too much with the tour, so refer to the righthand image for a pearler of an idea to make those troublesome feed zones slightly less risky. Pink bike baskets. A winner, huh? Bonus: the tifosi will absolutely love the surplus hello kittys getting piffed off onto the roadsides.
Big Jonny from DC(aka: two wheels, one dark lord) gets a little boshie and creatively works out his anger with doping cyclists.
How to humilate the princess bitch face cat in your life. yes you Cleo
And this. Possibly the most disturbing thing I’ve ever encountered on the internets. You’ll possibly require the services of a intensive counseling program if you choose to exercise free will and click on the link.
After publishing a fantastic ode to cycling earlier this week, The Age takes a downward turn and allows a footy hack writer to pull out the current anti TdF cliches. Similarly, can we look forward to indepth stockmarket analysis by Lawrence Money in Business Day? Actually, on the subject of Business Day, cast your eyes over this cracking read by one Elliot Fishman. Now returning to that Greg Baum piece:
Tour de Farce: Greg Baum
Have drug scandals irreparably damaged one of the world’s greatest sporting events? Greg Baum reports. Earlier this year, New York Times columnist George Vecsey likened bike racing to professional wrestling in terms of its credibility.
Clearly Baum has a pathetically limited knowledge of TdF history, and a objective response to his article has been posted on aus.bicycle. Say, what about the early decades, what with riders openly drinking & having a ciggie? Or the tragedy of Tom Simpson? The tour has always survived, including two world wars and it will survive and evolve past this latest transgression by a selfish bunch of idiots.
Regarding AFL, as a thoroughly disenchanted female fan I’m beyond disgusted at hearing the almost weekly despatches of boofhead antics. Oh they’re footy players, hahaha, pat on the back, minimise their crap behaviour by laughing it off in the meedya. Nah fcuk it, I’m taking my sporting allegiances (and money) elsewhere. Also The Age continues it’s downward trajectory towards tabloid by publishing this online poll about recent Hell Ride issues:
Hell Ride: Should the notorious Hell Ride be banned? Vote online.
To clumsily paraphrase James Balwin, if they come for us at night (or dusk) , they’ll be coming for them early on Saturday morning.
July 27, 2007 at 12:04 am · Filed under Now Seriously
With all this mess going on at the Tour, caused by a few cheating idiots, please don’t give up hope for our beautiful sport that is being tarnished (destroyed?) by a few.
This YouTube vid is only a relatively small example of what’s avaliable if you’re interested in learning more about how US authorities targeted activist groups in the 1960′s. WTF has this got to do with anything you say? Plenty. CointelPro may not officially exist anymore, but similar social processes have a tendency to thrive in social environments where there is a relative vacuum of informed discussion, unquestioning obedience to authority figures, flawed value systems and closed review processes.
For example, some corporate environments, NGO’s, community organisations can descend darkly into toxic work environments. Most of these organisations do operate within adequate guidelines, although some individuals, who could have the very best of intentions, can wind up horribly compromised, pressured by work commitments, bullying and peer groups into dysfunctional behaviours that would normally be subjected to valid criticism and disapproval.
There’s numerous analogies I could draw, just by observing recent issues in the Australian media. But on a macro level there’s more to examine. Put simply, if you’ve been privy to apparent exclusive insights about somebody or something that doesn’t sound right, why not discreetly turn the tables on whoever could be repeating distortions as fact? Bullshit conspiracies and rumour-mongering, via the use of media misreporting, reducing facts to the point of caricatures, shills and internet sock puppets can only gain acceptance where people are too lazy to utilise their critical facilities to sieve facts from manufactured fiction.
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” – Winston Churchill
It’s all getting too much with the tour, so refer to the righthand image for a pearler of an idea to make those troublesome feed zones slightly less risky. Pink bike baskets. A winner, huh? Bonus: the tifosi will absolutely love the surplus hello kittys getting piffed off onto the roadsides.
