Tom Reynolds

Dear Mel, Mel, Melly-Melly-Mel,

You know I love Mad Max II more than food, and possibly more than Rachel (she can, and will, confirm this). I also love Mad Max I. I liked “Tim“, cherished Gallipoli and forgave you for Mad Max III, Lethal Weapons II-IV, and for you Dad’s appalling views on the holocaust.

I was all set to forgive you AGAIN for the drink driving thing (hey, everyone’s done it *). But WHAT IN SATAN’S NIGHTGOWN WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU WENT ON A JEW RANT?

Sadly, I can only assume YOU MEANT IT YOU BLOODY MORON. You really are an anti semitic, Jew hatin’ dickhead. You made “Passion of the Christ” to poke Jews in the eye. You are said to be working on a film about the holocaust- can’t wait to see how that’s going to pan out.

you now say you “are sorry”. SORRY FOR BEING CAUGHT OUT! In ALCOHOL LIES TRUTH AND TRUTH IS YOU ARE FNISHED IN HOLLYWOOD.

For the LOVE OF GOD MAN, give it up. The whole pre Vatican II Catholic thing, the listening-to-every-mad-thing-daddy-says-and-then-spewing-it-out-when-caught-driving-pissed.

GIVE UP. The whole thing. Acting, directing, producing. Move to Broken Hill and drive around in a V8 XB Coupe and the world will learn to love you again.

yours,

thomasr

* by “everyone”, I mean “everyone famous in hollywood”

Mel culpa: Gibson sorry after tirade – People – Entertainment – theage.com.au

I’m not certain, but I’m pretty certain the delectable Ms Marieke Hardy will not pimp her appearance on the ABC’s new book program First Tuesday Book Club on her own blog as… well, frankly, her blog is another persona. Of sorts.

So, I feel duty bound to talk it up ESPECIALLY AS IT FEATURES MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE BOOK as an opener. WHOA! SHOUTING! THOMASR!! Well, hell it’s “American Psycho” and frankly it’s the book that made me give up novel writing aspirations. (damn fury!

Brett Easton Ellis wrote the damn thing when he was but 25-ish and it’s constructed like the most perfect piece of engineering you’ve ever seen. I return to this book annually- and have introduced many people to it. Of note, two of the people who did read it were almost complete “non-readers” (one admitted he hadn’t read a book since high school. He read it in two days.)

So, if you haven’t read it, don’t be completely put off by the title. Ok, be slightly put off by the title. And strap yourself in.

Marieke Hardy – About Us – Celebrity Readers – First Tuesday – ABC TV

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I normally don’t respond to meme tags, I just pick the ones I like and go from there…:

1) Four jobs I’ve had.
Coles shelf stacker
Roadie
Windsurfing instructor
Chemist boy

2) Four movies I could watch over and over.
Mad Max 2: the Road Warrior
Clerks
Run, Lola, Run.
Apocalypse Now!

3) Four places I have lived.
North Balwyn, Melbourne, Victoria
Tarifa, Spain
St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria
Mt Martha, Victoria

4)Four TV shows I love to watch
Scrubs
Top Gear
Myth Busters
Lost

5) Four places I have been on vacation
New York, USA
Tarifa, Spain
Seisia, FNQ, Australia
Geralton, Western Australia

6) Four webshites I visit daily
Boing Boing
Reasons You Will Hate Me
Petrol Case
SlashDot

7) Four of my favourite foods
Lamb Chops/cutlets
Beef Stroganoff
Rachel’s Lasagne
Beef Wellington (mum’s!)

Four places I would rather be
With Duncan
In FNQ
In NYC
With Jake

9)Four fave CD’s
Yoshimi Battles etc- The Flaming Lips
The Wall- Pink Floyd
Electric Ladyland- Jimi Hendrix
The Real Thing- Faith No More

1) Five things in my bag
ipod
ipod battery backpacky thingamy
Robert Timms Coffee bag
Computer parts land catalogue
Triumph motorcycle fuel connector (broken)

2) Five things in my fridge
Tonic water (no Gin in the house, sadly)
Ice dispenser that Rachel shows every new visitor
Real butter (no butter tray)
3 X 750 ml Carlton Draught bottles
Some veggies I’m sure Rachel bought

3)Five things in my closet
My car racing shoes (thany you blue wiggle)
4 helmets
3 wetsuits
A suit or two
motorcycle leathers

4) Five things in my car
No CAR!

Honda F1 have been out on the world famous salt flats @ Bonneville, Utah attempting to break the F1 world speed record (or at least set a benchmark). They’ve set 400km/h as their goal and are using an ex F1 car (with minimal downforce) to achieve these big numbers.

The BBC motorpsport website has some beautiful pics of the event (link below). (though I gots ta tell ya, it’s pretty easy to get good pics in the desert…!)

BBC SPORT Motorsport Photo Galleries Honda tops 400km/h

The Gadgeteer – Tekkeon myTalker ET7000:

“myTalker is a Bluetooth gateway that turns your iPod or MP3 player into a Bluetooth headset. It plugs into the earphone jack of your iPod, and then your earbuds or headphones plug into the myTalker.”

Yet another “must have” that I cannot justify as we speak… and yet…

Teen restaurant worker shot in face – National – theage.com.au:

“Police are hunting two men after a teenage fast food restaurant employee was shot in the face in Melbourne’s east last night.
The 16-year-old, working in the drive-through section of a McDonald’s restaurant at the junction of Mountain Highway and Boronia Road, Wantirna, was wounded near her left eye when she was shot at with what is believed to be an air rifle from bushes on Boronia Road about 7.30pm.”

…at this point police have not released the name of the wounded party, though it’s believed the employee’s name is Marvin.

Boy surfer tells of ‘pretty scary’ tsunami encounter. 19/07/2006. ABC News Online:

“I suddenly thought that wave is not a normal wave, that never happened here before so I just started to run. It was pretty amazing because it was like the biggest wave I have ever seen and it probably was”

“… and I can’t belive some guy pulled localism on me? I mean it’s pretty screwed up when the biggest wave you’ve ever seen comes through and some local guy snakes you coz he wants to surf it all the way to his house…”

Stop motion filming- shoot that damned UFO!!

YouTube – Human Space Invaders

We didn’t win- nor lose, but here today I present my best ever game of Halo 2 (Xbox live of course) Here I am playing as St Kilda Wood (Marky Mark’s account)

Bungie.net game stats

Holyhell, did I worked the angles- 39 Kills, 9 deaths, 35 head shots.

Here’s a diagram (as provided by Bungie) of the kills I got in one area. (I am the green “4″ symbol). You’d think they’d work out that I was sniping them with my mad skillz!

Just. A. Big. Kid.