Bits and Bobs
Bit quiet around here, eh? Don’t worry, we’ll get back on top of things soon. There’s plenty of stuff to review, but we’re just busy. There’s a revue being put on by the Leonardian Players so we’re taking a bit of a break. Andy isn’t in it but he’s waiting for us to fill in the gaps in the Battlestar reviews. The idea is that we’re taking turns — the further idea is that Jackson will be one of the “we” in this case. This would make it a crazy 9 reviews for him on ATR which I’m not sure the universe is ready for.
Some quick summaries since I can’t quite review them yet — Children of Men is awesome. The Departed is good but not quite that good. I won’t say any more lest I run out of things to say in any reviews which may or may not get written.
While I’m here, may I voice my concerns over Premier Bracks’ desire for new weapons for police? Clearly what our boys in blue need is more weapons. They’ve been doing such a bang-up job with the ones they’ve got. And in general, I dislike grandstanding over big manly words like “tasers” and “semi-automatic” when you know perfectly well that you don’t get to choose how your funding will be spent.
This is irritating because I’m normally a bit of a labor voter (after Greens of course, my responsibility as a young idealist). But I’m vaguely tempted by Ballieu this time around, in part because he sounds like a library but probably mostly because I just like changing stuff around. It’s lucky I’m not in charge.
… oh, and by the way, the details of the Revue:
The Off-Broadway Lounge
Friday 17th November & Saturday 18th November
8:00pm
TC Woolhouse Theatre
St Leonard’s College
163 South Road East Brighton
Tickets $15 at the door
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andy
November 15th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
The Sandringham district is already liberal. To change stuff around you’d have to vote for labor.
Tom
November 15th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Permit me my illusions. One can’t hope to change the liberalness of the Sandy district in any case. I like to pretend that whichever party I vote for on any level will win. Despite the overwhelming evidence that the reverse, in fact, is true.
Jack
November 16th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
It’s hardly fair to single out poor Mr. Bracks for promising stuff before an election. All parties do it. And whatever you view on semi-automatic hand guns, tasers are supposed to be non-lethal. Surely everybody approves of non-lethal alternatives.
I’m not aware of any major problems in the Victorian police force with regard to their use of guns like you are suggesting. In fact, beyond that handful of corrupt detectives the police force seems to be doing a decent job.
I’m really just distressed you’d consider voting for Ted. Of course, you are allowed. He’s just not worth it.
Tom
November 16th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Tasers aren’t lethal and in fact I support them, it was the semi-automatic bit I didn’t like. I was just taking the piss out of him wanting to say cool-sounding words. I should have kept them out of it though.
I’m singling him out for making a stupid promise that particularly irritates me. Not just for stupid promises in general. Though I prefer for governments to waste my time promising things that they at least might be able to do, and even better, promising things that actually address issues that society is actually facing.
In fairness to our Police, it’s not as bad as it used to be. I’m still living in the nineties. This link mentions some context.
As Andy’s pointed out, I’m reasonably sure I don’t get to vote for Ted anyhow. But so far I haven’t heard anything particularly bad from him; this may of course be because I haven’t been paying attention.
andy
November 16th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
(da da duuum) Ted Ballieu won’t admit it, but he likes to stab babies. He could be stabbing your baby right now! Do you want a baby-stabber for Premier? (Ba bom!)
Premier Bracks hasn’t stabbed any babies while leading this state and that’s why we think he should get another term.
ben
November 20th, 2006 at 7:34 am
if only i had read that a few days ago i may well have gone along to it. i couldnt help reading on the website la vie boheme and it sucks to be me. they both are great. were there muppets for it sucks to be me?
Tom
November 20th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
There were no muppets, but the people singing acted very muppet-like, you’d have been impressed.
I should’ve mentioned it on the blog earlier. I’m a bad publicist.