Monthly Archives: May 2003

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Keanu Reeves on Keanu Reeves: “I’m a meathead man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.” (Guardian, 17.5.2003)

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If only I’d been a grafitti artist instead of wasting all those years studying, I’d have a job by now: “Groundwork Birmingham needs a Graffiti Artist for a 4 day workshop in Kings Norton, Birmingham”.

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Back in Australia, Faye was bonding with the kids:
“On the (bogan) bus yesterday, a group of ratbags were having a friendly argument, and a bogan kid shouts out “go make a clone and fuck yourself”.
“Go make a clone and fuck yourself? In our day, it was just “go fuck yourself”. But I suppose having a clone would be easier than trying to fuck your single self. ”
It’s probably just as well Jacques wasn’t there:
“Damn wish i was one of those kids. I would have turned around and said “At
least my clone would fuck me, yours wouldn’t fuck you”.”

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Read extracts from the journal of lesbian from the 1800s: “Anne Lister was an upperclass Englishwoman from Halifax, West Yorkshire. She lived from 1791-1840, and would not be particularly notable except that she left behind her diaries, and along with describing her daily activities, these journals also describe her romantic relationships with women. Not “vaguely romantic”, but clearly passionate and sexually-involved affairs that she pursued exclusively with women, throughout her life.”

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In the ‘good news’ section today, “The European Parliament in Strasbourg has voted for proposed EU-wide laws aimed at upholding the principle that the polluter pays for environmental damage.” [BBC] and in the bad news section, “Australia has joined World Trade Organisation (WTO) action against a European Union ban on genetically modified organisms (GMO).” [The Age]. Did I mention that I hate John Howard?
Speaking of GM crops, you can sign a petition calling for a “ban on the environmental or commercial release of genetically engineered wheat, and the use of genetically engineered wheat in open field trials.” in Canada on the Canadian Greenpeace site at http://www.greenpeace.ca/e/action/wheat/index.php.

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Bad day, via the Age: “While on the way to an important speech, Thailand’s finance minister got locked inside his luxury car yesterday because of an onboard computer malfunction and had to signal someone to smash a window for him to crawl out.”