It’s currently 26C (77F), humid, and the Sun feels like it is about to shoot rays through the back of my skull.
This is not Thanksgiving weather for me. Of course, Thanksgiving is not an Australian holiday (it would be rather odd if it was, given Australian history and climate), so I’m heading back to the US through the end of the month.
Currently in Milwaukee it is 43F (6C) and foggy.
That’s much better.
Sam Worthington is one of those “up and coming” actors who one is supposed to know, even if you wouldn’t bother going to their “hot” films.
Probably a decent guy, but his publicist has pissed Uncle Rupert off recently.
It started off rather nicely and cheeky in The Perth Times.
Got a bit chilly and barbed in The Herald Sun.
Now it seems rather full-on icy in today’s Telegraph.
I think Worthington might want to reconsider his representation.
Border Security: Sydney Airport gets a lot of self-righteous idiots trying to smuggle food and/or drugs into Australia; Brisbane Airport gets a lot of self-righteous con artists trying to sneak into Australia to work; Melbourne Airport gets a self-righteous combination of both.
Highway Patrol: Avoid any P-Plate drivers in Victoria, they’re drunk hoons with suspended licenses.
The Force: Perth has extremely patient cops, drunk teens, robbers, and homeless men; Sydney police really hate counterfeit DVDs.
So in summary: Move to Adelaide or Hobart if you want to do anything dodgy. You’ll likely get caught, but you won’t be on national television.
An interesting article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, which hopefully will get some traction.
Lou Jing is a 20 year old mixed race (Chinese/Black) Chinese woman who was competing on a Pop Idol style show in Shanghai. Her participation has caused the Chinese public and the Chinese media to look at its own biases towards skin colour.
Reading stories like this often make me take a look at how do I feel as a Black American-Australian.* I came to this country with the preconceived notion that I would stick out severely. I didn’t think of that as a problem—(I’m from Wisconsin!)—but I was prepared for it. Surprisingly, I found Sydney to be extremely diverse. Every day I see people of all shades, including my own, many of whom with an Australian accent to boot.
* An awkward description, but the only one I can think of. According to the last Australian census in 2006 there are 11,798 Australians of African American descent out of a total of 71,718 American-Australians.
Courtesy of YouTube here is a clip of Lou Jing’s appearance on Go! Oriental Girl.
Hopefully she will eventually be able to fulfil her dreams and revolutionise her country’s self-perception at the same.
I was in Wollongong today and saw this advert outside the WIN Entertainment Centre
Australia’s secret to beating the GFC? Child labour.
This morning both Sunrise and The Morning Show had MC Hammer of all people on.
Was Hammer so hot that he set Martin Place on fire?
Or was it his desperation of trying to regain some sort of relevance?
The Morning Show did have one redeeming segment--which wasn’t really their own—by showing a clip of Oprah Winfrey interviewing Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. de Rossi’s comments on being a lesbian are particularly notable.
Shockingly, Emdur & Gillies made no reference to the fact that de Rossi is Australian.
