Wednesday, November 7, 2007

I refused to spellcheck in support

Television and film writers in the US are on strike. Which you have to admire, given that their's is a profession that practically guarantees unepmloyment for at least 75% of the time.
Their employers are working very hard to work out all sorts of ways to make money off of new technologies like podcasts, but not very hard at all to work out fair ways to share these new profits with the people who provide the words. And the stage directions.
I'm not sure if blogging counts as scabbing, but I guess not because I'm not making any money. Instead, I will be posting the two comic tributes to my striking cousins stateside:





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GTH

River slipped in again with a sly guess at a dusty field. I was actually hoping for more interest around the whirlwind that was blowing in the picture, symbolising all kind of seemingly uncontrollable turbulence in the Australian desert. Or something.
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8 comments:

  1. RiverThursday, November 8, 2007 at 12:24:00 AM PST

    I took a guess at the header before reading your post, thinking it had something to do with the drought, but having since read Nai's posts and your explanation I can see how your header ties in with what she experienced out there in the Anangu lands.
    This new header looks to be following a similar theme, barely controlled turbulence in the Australian cities.

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  2. Kath LockettThursday, November 8, 2007 at 6:13:00 PM PST

    I agree with the venerable River - protest march?

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  3. franzyThursday, November 8, 2007 at 6:30:00 PM PST

    Agreeing never won no-one the Guess The Header points! I want more information! Places! Dates! Motivations! INFORMATION!

    Although, if I had to call it, Milly Moo is winning at the moment.

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  4. RiverFriday, November 9, 2007 at 12:04:00 AM PST

    So I'm thinking the header would be the striking writers picketing at the movie production of Sex and the City.

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  5. RiverFriday, November 9, 2007 at 3:55:00 AM PST

    Then again, the word voted is clearly visible on a placard so it could be a political rally/protest. Back to google........

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  6. AnonymousFriday, November 9, 2007 at 8:01:00 PM PST

    I'm going to guess it is a workplace relations rally against proposed or unfair IR laws - somewhere in Australia. Blue flags possibly Eureka Stockade Crosses (not sure the proper name of them.

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  7. franzyFriday, November 9, 2007 at 8:33:00 PM PST

    Now you're gettin' somewhere!

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  8. BloggerSunday, April 2, 2017 at 11:40:00 PM PDT

    I just got a payment for $500.

    Sometimes people don't believe me when I tell them about how much money you can make taking paid surveys online...

    So I took a video of myself getting paid $500 for taking paid surveys to set the record straight.

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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test

Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.

Have you heard of the band Joy Division?

Chinese food, not Chinese Internet!

Champions of Guess The Header

  • What is Guess The Header about? Let’s ask regular “Writing” reader, Shippy: "Anyway, after Franzy's stunning September, and having a crack at 'Guess The Header' for the first time - without truly knowing what I was doing mind you - I think I finally understand what 'GTH' is all about. At first I thought you needed to actually know what it was. Don't get me wrong — if you know what it is, it may help you. I now realise that it's more Franzy's way of invoking thought around an image or, more often than not, part of an image. If you dissect slightly the GTH explanatory sentence at the bottom of his blog you come up with this: “The photo is always taken by me and always connects in some way to the topic of the blog entry it heads up.” When the header is put up, the blog below it will in some obscure way have something to do with it. “Interesting comments are judged and scored arbitrarily and the process is open to corruption and bribery with all correspondence being entered into after the fact and on into eternity, ad infinitum amen.” Franzy judges it, but it's not always the GTH that describes the place perfectly that gets it. “The frequent commenters, the wits, the wags and the outright smartarses who, each entry, engage to both guess the origin and relevance of the strip of photo at the top (or “head”) of each new blog and also who leave what I deem the most interesting comment.” It generally helps if you're a complete smartarse and can twist things to mean whatever you feel they should mean - exactly the way Franzy would like things to be twisted." - Shippy Blogger and GTH point scorer.
  • Nai - 1
  • Lion Kinsman - 2
  • Will - 2
  • Brocky - 2
  • Andy Pants - 2
  • The 327th Male - 3
  • Mad Cat Lady - 3
  • Miles McClagen - 4
  • Myninjacockle - 4
  • Asheligh - 5
  • Neil - 5
  • Third Cat - 5
  • Adam Y - 6
  • Squib - 6
  • Mele - 6
  • Moifey - 7
  • Jono - 8
  • The Other, other Sam - 14
  • Kath Lockett - 15
  • Shippy - 19
  • River - 32