NDBT

The wallabies upset the all-blacks. I heard a few fights break out last night as I was trying to get to sleep. And apparently the Sydney opera house is being named a world heritage site (like the exhibition building here in Melbourne – which is the only remaining building from a world’s fair, or something like that).

I am not at the wildlife sanctuary. Tis okay. There are many, many wildlife parks around. Even if this one won lots of eco-tourism awards. And I’ve been in a zoo vet hospital before… I got a wallet today on sale. Its leather, but oh well. I couldn’t find another. I have to do laundry, pack, and try to read a couple of books so I’m not lugging them all to Sydney.

I went through my stuff last night and realized I’m not going to have enough time to wwoof anywhere else. Sad, but okay. Once I’m up in Cairns, I should start applying for jobs in Christchurch and see if I can find a good housing website. A girl in my room said I should try to apply for trip interruption from my insurance. I don’t think it’ll work, but I guess I can try.

There’s a preview of the new Tek Jansen comic here:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20043846_2,00.html

Long live Colbert!

There’s a good column on looking for America here:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/28/DDG3IQLGJB1.DTL

Patrick sent some more photos, and I’m posting them so I don’t clog people’s inboxes too much. They’re here:

http://community.webshots.com/album/559693384eZSIPP

My brother managed to find Halloween is Grinch Night on youtube (Thanks Ross!):

Brilliance. WATCH IN ORDER.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPcxnJQnzhE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCtpdhh0eo0&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60wWPYfaks&mode=related&search=

As my mother said the last time we watched, “That is so bizarre. I can’t believe I let you watch that as children.”

For those of you who missed it, here’s a re-post (cleaned-up) of a rant I found about it.

First of all, why are you living at the base of Mt. Crumpet? I think that, if I lived at the base of the mountain where the Grinch lives, if I lived in a place where relatively often (often enough that our township has a person who’s job it is to live in a mushroom-bunker and watch for the Grinch), the Grinch comes down the mountain with his “Paraphenalia Wagon”, kidnaps children and exposes them to some sort of insane psychotropic mist which sends them into a black void of terror, surrounded by horrible spectres of evil which rival even The Grinch himself, I’d move.

Don’t want to move? Fine. Build a wall. Dynamite the road down Mt. Crumpet. String some razorwire and lay some landmines. Just kill The Grinch already. What are you, Quaker-whos?

Remove all the tree-stumps. If there are no tree-stumps, then there’s no place for the Gree-Grumps. No place for the Gree-Grumps? No Gree-Grumps period. And if there’s no Gree-Grumps about, then when that sour-sweet wind starts a-blowing, no Gree-Grumps will start a-growling. Those tree stumps just sit there doing nothing but sheltering Gree-Grumps, and as you can see, those Gree-Grumps are nothing but trouble. Do you really need the tree stumps?

Kill the Gree-Grumps. Again, if there are no Gree-Grumps, then when that sour-sweet wind starts a-blowing, then no Gree-Grumps start a-growling. No Gree-Grumps a-growling means that stupid pond won’t start a warbling, or whatever.

And if that pond isn’t a warbling, the Hackencracks won’t start a-yowling. And if the Hackencracks don’t start a-yowling, The Grinch won’t start a-howling. And as the end of the movie showed quite decisively, if The Grinch isn’t a-yowling, he can’t go about his Grinching, he just heads back up the mountain to wait around for that sour-sweet wind to start a-blowing, so as to set the Gree-Grumps a-growling, which in turn upsets the pond, inciting the Hackencracks to begin a-howling, irritating The Grinch into a-yowling, and in general setting off an unfortunate chain of events.

In short, People of Whoville, do the following:

-Stop wasting your tax dollars on that impotent “Grinch Watchmen” who just sits there and (after everyone knows The Grinch is on his way, lets you know that, yes, he’s still on his way.
-Uproot the tree-stumps, thus driving the Gree-Grumps from their home.
-Kill the now homeless Gree-Grumps
-Drain the pond which houses the Hackencracks
-Kill any surviving Hackencracks
-Kill The Grinch

Idiots.

Dude! They have the lorax, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNi7pD04v-U&mode=related&search=

The Lorax, of course, has one of my all time favorite quotes,

“‘UNLESS’, said the Once-ler, ‘Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better – it’s not.'”

Ooh! More fun on youtube: The Rocky Horror Show at the Tonys! I saw them. Dick Cavett was hysterical.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kDpC9zP7Pg8 I like how Jonathan Sharp gets Gweneth Paltrow to dance. And Wicked (yay Indina Menzel and Joel Grey!):

Oh, this is awesome. I love the tonys. It’s like That’s Entertainment. Here’s the Lion King:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JKAHx2v1ANE,

Avenue Q:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJCU4xf5IJE,

Spring Awakening (which swept the tonys this year):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DgkdoIz5tmE,

Hugh Jackman singing dreamgirls:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yv7wWrUZ9_w,

Boy from Oz:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=POmD7Ovje2Y,

Threepenny opera (I still think Cyndi was not a great choice for the role, but everyone else was good):

Sweeney Todd:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4iLKi_8pnz8,

Into the woods (how awesome is Milky white?):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fYHTWE02OaQ,

Cabaret (I saw Neil Patrick Harris in that):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5RF-AFJ5VFs,

Chicago (though its a bit jerky on my computer):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DIstl2PlamQ,

RENT (the best I could find was the 97 opening with Rosie O’ Donnell; RENT shows up about 1:00):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ScLAqVDYcD0,

Thoroughly modern millie:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Q0X2RF5Qh0

And, the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen on the Tonys,”Lot’s Wife” from Caroline or Change (which I then got to see in LA, and she was AWESOME):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nBxPARCbm_I

Ack! – I have to go be productive.

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