Sunday 25th March, 2007 at 10:07 pm
The media in Australia at the moment is useful for two things:
- Giving you biased, twisted “truths” of current events
and
- Blowing things WAY out of proportion.
For example, the AFL season is starting, and already the media train is spitting out all kinds of rumors and hearsays. Ben Cousins, former captain of the West Coast Eagles, has recently been caught drinking and drugging it up in Perth, sending the media into a frenzy. As soon as Ben was caught, the media brought up rumors about other players involving in the same life-style. Now while I don’t condone the act of taking drugs (but drinking, go for it :D), these guys are just trying to have a good time, and when the media follows these guys, the moment they slip up, the media has the big scoop in the next mornings’ paper. They blow the story way out of proportion too. Going back to the Ben Cousins example, he got a whole page dedicated to him in the Monday newspaper. Yet the battles going on in the Middle East, where countless people are dying, got half a page.
Now let me re-state that paragraph in bold and centered to emphasize how ridiculous the media is:
Ben Cousins got a whole page dedicated to him in the Monday newspaper. Yet the battles going on in the Middle East, where countless people are dying, got half a page.
The mind boggles.
Tuesday 6th March, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Gotta love 40-degree-plus temperatures. Went down to the beach yesterday arvo, will probably go down again this afternoon. Drove down and my car nearly overheated while trying to get down there. Speaking of my car, it’s giving me teh shits as of late. The right-side speaker has popped so whenever there is a hint of bass, it starts crackling. Which is REALLY good news when you play a lot of Pendulum or Nine Inch Nails on your radio :(. One of the wheels on the right also has a stuffed brake pad so that squeeks for a little while before the car warms. AND a lot of smoke is billowing out of the exhaust when I start the car, which says that the oil rings are going out.
All in all, around about $3000+ worth of repairs to do. That’s twice the amount I paid for the bloody thing. Lesson here kids is: Don’t buy a bloody car.
Right, now to something a bit more light-hearted, for the 3 or so people who actually view my blog, here’s a preview of the new Gamestah site:
Image removed, it’s too old
If you see the current site, you should see that the new site is much of an improvement. If you want to leave any comments about it, feel free, although I will probably be told off for this because its meant to be secret. 
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