Gentle reader, please, if you agree with this columnist's suggestion that an effort to send monsoon cleanup money and aid to Australia should be made, please send the link for this page to all your posse and suggest that they do what they can to increase a grass roots effort to hold an Aussie Aid Benefit Concert. They have also had a drought and a previous big fire, so maybe they deserve a good will gesture?
It's obvious that it would be better to "go along to get along" and echo the daily cause and join the chorus in an internet version of the chase sequence in "Lady from Shanghai" rather than persisting in an attempt to follow Longfellow's "I shot a column into the ether world . . ." example, but it kindda looks like the Crisis in Egypt is now so last week, why waste the time and energy doing a column that's "a day late and a dollar short"?
Didn't the lady who just sold her news aggregator site for $315 million, once say that bloggers don't need to be paid? Were Murrrow's boys in the union and getting union scale? Was Ernie Pyle in the guild? Will any bloggers see one penny of the proceeds from that sale? Isn't the Ayn Rand philosophy of life so profitable? We digress.
The other day while walking among ghosts on Spoul Plaza, this columnist was approached by a young lady who asked: "Do you like vaginas?" It turns out that she was promoting a production of "The Vagina Monologues," which will be held February 10, 11, and 12 at UC Berkeley. Can you just imagine her doing that in Australia?
In the book mentioned above, Corporal St. George, as he prepared to leave Australia and finally go to a combat zone, described it thus: "I amused myself with some morbid guesses on who, of these men in our truck, would be the first to "go." Some online searches indicate he lived through the war, married an American nurse he met while stationed in Australia, and became a newspaper man in the Mid-West.
Now the disk jockey will play "Waltzing Matilda," "A pub with no beer," and "Dirty deeds done dirt cheap" (did you catch that bit about obscure and esoteric references?). We have to go find a news story about the fires near Perth. Have "Mad Max" type week.
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