The pond is here to help, yet for a brief time yesterday, the reptiles had prattling Polonius's attempt to watch the media as their 'top of the digital page', 'top of the world ma' chief delight.
This was wrong on so many levels. First, it's not a media watch dog, it's an ABC obsessive-compulsive watch dog.
Second, it's outrageous to charge for it, because such is the preening vanity behind the obsessive scribbling that it turns up for free on the Sydney Institute pages on the very same day.
How is it possible to put up a gold bar and charge for something, when the supplier is offering it for free out the back door? Prohibition and Al Capone never operated like that …
Here's a thought.
How about the reptiles demand that Polonius put an embargo on publication in the Sydney Institute, say of a week, so that the copy stays fresh in the lizard Oz, and turns up at the other location for archival purposes?
How about the reptiles demand that Polonius put an embargo on publication in the Sydney Institute, say of a week, so that the copy stays fresh in the lizard Oz, and turns up at the other location for archival purposes?
This sort of embargo is working a treat in other ways.
The pond generally ignores the Bolter, but if it wants to find out just how offensively racist he is, these days it's easiest to head off to Amanda Meade's Weekly Beast to get the most delectable pickings:
The pond generally ignores the Bolter, but if it wants to find out just how offensively racist he is, these days it's easiest to head off to Amanda Meade's Weekly Beast to get the most delectable pickings:
Shah and co-host Jacinta Parsons replaced veteran Red Symonds on Melbourne Radio’s breakfast show this year and as expected the ratings have dropped for their first survey. Bolt blames it all on the ABC’s political correctness and the replacement of a white man with a brown man.
“And at the end of last year Symons was out, replaced by co-hosts Sami Shah and Jacinta Parsons,” Bolt wrote. “The white bloke with an Australian accent was replaced by a brown one with a thick Pakistani accent and by a woman.
That's as much as the pond needs to be reminded about the Bolter for a month or a year …
There's only so much distilled essence of racism that the pond can absorb at any given time …
Polonius, of course, is a little more subtle about it, but still, he was in the same game yesterday … at a location entirely different from the lizard Oz … please allow the pond to advertise the opposition …
It is of course exceptionally rich for Polonius, who works in the inner city and is obsessively compelled to observe the ABC.
He can't let it go in any way shape or form …please permit the pond to shelter behind the flag, and advertise the opposition … while giving just a hint of where inner city 'leets like to work … the poignant juxtaposition of inner city eerie and inner west is too delightful to ignore ...
Barking mad?
Well indeed … it's perhaps possible that Polonius faithfully sits down to listen to Aussie Rules football coverage on the ABC, and so is naturally indignant, but the pond finds it hard to imagine … you'd need a comedian to evoke the richness of Polonius with an ear on the radio while he mutters and mumbles about marks …
Now all this has come to the pond from an alternative source, Polonius's very own institute.
Why do the reptiles allow it? When will the reptiles institute a proper paywall?
That's the only way to avoid the sight of Polonius going anal retentive, a ritual which happens at the end of his weekly piece.
Polonius imagines he's free-wheeling, lively, satirical, ironic, perhaps even witty and hugely funny in his media outpourings, when in reality he reveals the heart of a pedant, soiled by a generous dose of bile and bitterness…
About the only thing apart from the ABC that gets the old dog going these days is defending the Catholic church up hill and down dale from all that awful talk of pedophiles in the ranks.
Please allow the pond to advertise the source that denies the reptiles valuable revenue while exploring this Polonial obsession …
Around this point the pond usually reaches back to a First Dog from 2008 …
On and on he pounded, as if an argument over statistics was the way to defend the behaviour of the Catholic church … while all the pond could think was the remarkable way that Polonius managed to dodge the suffering of children ...
Wisely the recipient didn't respond, he perhaps realised what he'd set himself up for by providing a reference in the first place … and all the pond could think of, instead of the suffering of children, was the second part of that First Dog ...
Even more bizarrely, the silence of the recipient after Polonius's first missive didn't stop Polonius from carrying on, scribbling furiously to himself, while still offering "best wishes" when it's obvious that his "best wishes" was just a curious attempt to be both hypocritical and offensive …
And that's why the pond is pleading, nay begging to the reptiles that there shouldn't be a next time. The pond is frankly appalled at the notion.
Please, put this obsession with the ABC and the Catholic Church behind the paywall where it belongs. Put an embargo on it, so that the flag-waving inner city Sydney Institute 'leet can't harm the revenue opportunities of the lizard Oz …
The pond means well, the pond is here to help put the entire lizard Oz behind a concrete paywall as solid as the Atlantic coastal defence line in France in the second world war ...
And in the meantime could the reptiles also encourage Polonius to get out a little more, and stop harping on a few predictable things?
Once upon a time, he loved to write of other matters, like the decadence of Hollywood, while celebrating Merchant Ivory films, in a bid to establish that he had perfect, aspirational upwardly mobile middle class credentials, of the kind much in favour at the ABC, as demonstrated back in day of his scribbling for those dreadful Fairfax rags, with this on the 30th March 1993 ...
The result of the reptile follies?
The pond has quite lost the appetite for more Polonius on the weekend … and what a tragedy and a loss that is …
Bring on the paywall and the embargo, and don't delay, bring it on this week …
Who knows, Polonius might be blathering about the wonders of the Trump administration, and the pond can carry on in blissful ignorance, and instead celebrate some of the other entertainment on offer, as entertaining as any Tarantino movie (no doubt Polonius moved on from Merchant Ivory to embrace Tarantino) …
Why not a Rowe for entertainment, with more excessive celebrations of sausage machine Hollywood violence available at Rowe's twitter feed here …
Who the Hail is Michael Medved ? Has anybody here ever heard of him ?
ReplyDeleteWell, no wonder if he wants to rate 'Sound of Music' - a story about an ultra-disciplinarian over-controlled bunch of human noise makers (skilled but not especially wonderful) who have to escape from the epitome of civilisation, the Third Reich - with 'Midnight Cowboy', an overly sentimentalist story about a few human pecadillos in New York. Which includes educated and successful women paying for the good sex they can't get from the usual run of self-centered, low performance males. In short, a genuine BSD makes good.
Anyway, that was Polonius as I more or less remember/imagine him, DP. Fortunately, he hadn't fallen victim to his later obsession with the ABC and the Child Abuse Royal Commission, then. But, oh boy, does he already show the beginnings of the traits that FDOTM would document with such chilling accuracy later on. My, my.
I have been keeping track of all Amerikan loons for 30 years. Surprisingly he is not featured in the Encyclopedia of American Loons when he should be featured.
ReplyDeleteMedved was one of my early discoveries. A real psychotic nut case.
Check out his book The American Miracle, and all of the deranged dingbats that endorsed the book.
“...we retain the personal and communal choice of how to respond to haunting, plentiful signs of God’s continued collaboration in the American miracle.” [Medved 'The American Miracle']
DeleteOh yeah, there's no doubt that Trump has his full share of 'divine right' and a bunch of God's miracles (eg Comey, Putin etc) to help him on His Holy Way.
Medved again: is there "...a sign that there really is a master plan in place?"
And this guy is an "orthodox" Judaist Sheesh. Does that mean YWH has transferred his favour from the Jews to the puritan British 'colonisers' of America ? Really truly ?
I reckon that's about as much as I'll ever want to know about Medved, Anony. He's kinda like a old-fashioned Jason Peterson, I think: whatever happens, however you look at the world, it always supports your fond belief in your own immaculate omniscience (see also 'Murdochian Reptiles').
To offer the most mild defence of Michael Medved, he and brother Harry did put together some amusing books about bad films in the late 70's, which introduced Ed Wood to a wider audience, along with treasures such as "The Terror of Tiny Town" (the worlds first all-midget musical western) and the epically bad "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". Definitely helped my budding cinematic sensibilities.
ReplyDeleteIf Anony and others like American Loons, I would like to offer up one I discovered recently. Before proceeding further, it is worth noting that the author discusses his technique for finding readable books, which consists of dipping in at random and reading three pages, then, if nothing interesting is found, repeating the process, and if, after three attempts nothing wothy is found, giving it away. I recommend the same technique be used on the most...um...unusual "America the Great" - not Sprayregen's worthy compilation of recent satirical cartoons, but the 3000 page meisterwerk of the quite-extremely-loony-indeed Edward H. Sisson.
Makes Polonius look like the soul of wit.
That 'Tiny Town' movie sounds just like it would have been my kind of thing back in the times when I still patronised cinema. Sad that I missed it. And a pity that the Medved Bros didn't just stick to their field of expertise - Ed Wood could do with wider support.
DeleteBut a 3000 page book ? Of course there's no possible way that such a work could be anything but "quite-extremely-loony-indeed". Glad it was you who (tried to ?) read it FD and not me.
PS: there is about 1200 pages in the King James Bible but apparently 4224 pages in total in all of the Harry Potter novels. Which just, I do believe, illustrates my point definitively.
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