Mulholland Heft Meer Mmmmmmmm...

Daniel Craig Sux

I watched Casino Royale at the weekend.

I didn't finish the movie.  It was awful.

James Bond does NOT discuss his feelings.  Especially not with the Bond Girl.  Especially not with Judi frikking Dench!  He doesn't show vulnerability - he's the man.  He doesn't beg the Bond Girl for money
- he calls up M and demands a cash advance.  He doesn't get nervous about losing a card game.  He doesn't look miserable and mopey.  And for crying out loud, Gordons gin?!!!!!!  You're having a laugh!  Nobody but  middle-aged chavs drink Gordons.  How much did they pay for that sort of product placement in the script?!

I gave up on the film when they captured Bond, started whipping him, and he started screaming like a girl.

FFS, bring back Pierce Brosnan, cool gadgets and Q.  I don't want a tortured, angst-ridden Bond, I want a kick-arse one with actual testosterone pumping through his veins.

How Do I Get a Date With Hayley?

I'm completely serious.  I want to go out with her.

How could she pass up a date with New Zealand's second most notorious blogger?

Maybe I should start another internet petition?  :oP

One Man, Two Blogs, You Dig?

The Whig is, once again, the web's finest advocate of life lived liberally (I've even restored Haley Westenra to her rightful place).  However, I am not going to shut down Mulholland Drive - I will still post on here also.  After thinking long and hard about what I would put on there and keep on here, I came to the conclusion that there will be no concrete rules, but generally it will work like this:

The Whig - Rants and general sociopolitical commentary;
Mulholland Drive - More personal stuff - anecdotes, current projects, what I've been up to lately.

Or it might be the other way around.  As Denis Denuto once wisely said, it's the vibe of the thing.  And I'll go where the vibe takes me.

Arrive in One Piece

So they want to ban wire median barriers.  Well that makes perfect sense doesn't it?  100kph motorcycle crashes would be easily survivable if you didn't get decapitated in the process.  Daniel Evans would be alive and well today if he'd kept his waist intact.

Come on, is this a news story or are they brainstorming for a new Tui billboard?

Happiness is...

Finding one of your favourite movies on DVD at Real Groovy for ten bucks... and watching it with a bottle of Fattoria il Palagio chianti.  :oP

Easy Rider is liberalism as its purest - life lived liberally.  I don't like dirty hippies, but I love this film.

It also has the best opening credit sequence ever:

The Whig is Back

I have resumed the helm at the Whig.

Now I just have to figure out what the hell I am going to do with it...

Separated at Birth?

Paedophile rapist Christopher Paul Neil aka Vico:

Aural rapist Richard Melville Hall aka Moby:

You Know the World is Messed Up When...

Ross Meurant thinks the police overreacted, and Martyn Bradbury disagrees.

UPDATE:  Frankly, I want to know what sort of half-arsed militia gets ambushed by a police raid without getting any shots off?!  What was the point of all that training?!  I'm disappointed in them.

Furthermore, ask yourself who's a bigger threat to the rule of law in this country - Tame Iti, or Helen Clark and her Blue Belmonts.  I'm looking from Pig to Maori and Maori back to Pig and frankly I can't tell the difference in this crazy Animal Farm anymore.  Who's more likely to take away your freedom of speech in the near future?  Does it matter whether it's done by suits or commandos?  I'll take my odds with commie commandos - it's easier to know who to shoot.

What I think is also important to consider is that Tuhoe is not a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi and therefore has every right to claim itself as independent of the New Zealand Crown and defend itself and its territory militarily.  And there are a lot of things about the Ureweras that compare favourably by comparison to the rest of the country:

"...Pakeha law isn't recognised...here, where buildings go up without consent, dogs routinely roam without licences and dope is grown with abandon."

Sounds good to me!  Pity that the gangsters of Ruatoki wield far more power over their territory than do the the gangsters of Wellington over theirs.  Which is why I won't be moving anytime soon.  But like I say, neither side is on my side, so why make me pick one?

He's Mad

Utterly. Stark.  Raving.  Certifiably.  Bonkers.

He's also a filthy stinking liar, as this shows.

How can a man be in such complete denial of reality?

Clearly Cullen is a student of Goebbels' Big Lie doctrine.  He must figure that the more outrageous the claims he makes about New Zealand's surplus and why he can't cut taxes, the more likely the proletariat are to believe it.  So he insists, with a surplus of 7% of GDP, that we are "too poor" to cut taxes.

The thought that we might be too poor not to cut taxes thoroughly escapes him.

Even the Labor Party in Australia support tax cuts.   What's wrong with this man?!

More Gloating at Bomber's Expense

It appears that Martyn Bradbury, Programming Director for ALT TV, frothing leftie, adjudicator of all things racist, sexist and homophobic, and critic of "the racist, sexist, right wing", will have to shut his TV station down for five hours this long weekend.

Why?  Because, um... they displayed text messages that were actually racist and sexist during their coverage of Groove in the Park last February.  Oops!

If that wasn't funny enough, there's this quote:

"Alt TV responded to the authority saying it had employed a moderator/censor to look at the text messages before they were broadcast. It said unfortunately the moderator became intoxicated on the day and failed to perform the role."

Priceless!