As if I needed another reason to love Obama and the whole The West Wing comparison thing, he's gone and named the inspiration for Josh Lyman as his Chief of Staff ♥

(okay, the ABC news just said it was named, but it seems there could be some doubt. I have hope for a Bartlet White House, dammit!)

Dear America,

On behalf of the rest of the world: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Yours,
Smurfy

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Am about to leave for the Op Shop. Will be checking news websites on phone all afternoon, I swear. I am also girding myself for disappointment; I am a pessimist and I am so used to disappointment. Considering buying more alcohol just in case (and possibly a fall-out shelter for the next four+ years). KRudd was the favourite a year ago, and I ( Read more... )

Argh! We had visitors over for dinner tonight (they were delicious)... one of Papa Smurf's old coworkers from when he was a fitter and turner 20 years ago (we did the maths tonight... that is when he left the factory to start studying for ministry *feels old*). As a result, I not only didn't get to see the Monday elimination on Idol, but I ( Read more... )

history_time doesn't have a lot of people scheduled to post in the near future, so I was considering volunteering and doing a post on Harold Holt (in Australia, we don't assassinate our leaders, we just misplace them). Before I volunteered, however (and I still am unsure as to whether I really want to), I thought I'd Google him and see what, other than ( Read more... )

Most hilarious and incomprehensible secret ever, y/y? (I thought only the Greens had a mosh pit!!)

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Today I caved in and, for sanity's sake, finally created a filter that cuts out only one thing: doctorwho. Which is good, because my normal Sunday morning filter cuts out all communities and feeds, which would have meant I would have missed out on this announcement from Joss. I do hope everyone has watched the teaser, yes? And then there is dr_horriblesingNote: even my ( Read more... )

Hot on the heals of the Australian Anglican Church's first female bishop, we have the first female Governor General. I heard with the former that she was appointed because the WA church wanted to have a female bishop, which kind of takes some of the shine off it for me (tokenism is kind of sexism in reverse after all, no matter how qualified the ( Read more... )

I actually like Obama, but from what I see on Australian TV? He really makes me think of a televangelist.

When I was a child, we had some friends who came from South Africa. The father of the family was born in Africa, but the mother came from England and he'd spent some time traveling around Europe. They left because they could no longer stomach the Apartheid, and came to Australia because it was somewhere he could still "feel the sky ( Read more... )