Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.
Joined Jul 2022
And for those who worry about compulsory voting, here’s a thing:
On the left are 98 informal votes counted at the Ted Blackwood Community Centre. They can be mistakes or deliberately unfilled ballots, or whatever.
On the right, 2,569 total votes counted.
If you ask me, having a large turnout (always over 90% because you get fined if you don’t vote) and having 96% of voters make their view known is pretty bloody awesome.
French-style ravioli?
Why, yes! Don't mind if I do!
So, the King's coming to Australia for his pro-forma landlord's inspection or whatever, and our media is full of thoughtful pieces about colonialism, etc.
But not at the Murdochs' News Corp!
For them, it's just shitty puns mixed with pandering to the ardent monarchists/ultra-conservatives, of course!
This is pretty funny.
This by-election candidate was the deputy mayor until her Liberal Party (conservative) couldn't manage to get her candidate registration in time to get her on that ballot, so now they're trying to parachute her into an electorate she doesn't live in to replace their former representative there who had to quit in disgrace after being charged with sex crimes against minors.
The locals aren't having it. I just saw dozens of signs like this while driving around today.
So, it turns out that 319,000 or so people bought the "Dynamically Priced" tickets, and they're now saying there's no space left for more shows.
If we say the average price came to $300 or so, that means Oasis and Ticketmaster will take in $95.7 Million or $US 64.3 Million for 5 Australian shows - if they can keep themselves from trying to kill one another for that long.
Not a bad superannuation fund I guess 🤷♂️
Well, I finally got to the front of the queue, but if they think I'm gonna pay $800+ for 2 *VERY* shitty tickets so that Noel Gallagher can keep living in his golden palace after his messy divorce, they oughta have their heads read.
"Active Ticketing" in action.
Why a group of neo-Nazis stormed a tiny town in NSW
Two observations:
1. These dangerous clowns are getting waaaaay too comfortable, and the RW politicians keep deliberately ignoring how their inflammatory rhetoric is driving it.
2. I need a lot more soup.
The big annual endurance race is on at Bathurst today, and I can't help but feel a tiny pang of loss because we don't make cars here anymore, so it's all Mustangs and Camaros these days.
We used to call this category "Taxi racing" because the cars had to be based on the production model sedans, which also happened to be the cars of choice for taxis. But taxis didn't have 5l V8s generating 650 hp.
To be fair, the coupes do look much cooler hooning up and down the mountain. 🤷♂️ 😂
Just reading a bit of news, and I reckon it might be time to re-up Robert Paxton's definition of fascism which is widely accepted as the best in academic circles:
Paxton, R. (2011). The Anatomy of Fascism ([Kindle]). Penguin Books. p.218
Remember when Brian Dennehey got to have soliloquies in movies? Good times.
Seen here in ‘Silverado’ in which Kevin Kline and Scott Glenn were surpassing good IMHO.
It’s like Christmas every 3 months when my delivery from Jack White’s Third Man Records arrives in the mail. There’s always cool music and fun treats, but it’s all just so beautifully made and presented.
This one will be fun 😊
Koala leads police on chase through Sydney train station
Police? What, is it a crime to catch the 4:38am to Town Hall these days?
Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.
Joined Jul 2022