bedlam updates

On November 13 I put my art out there for the first time in years. When I say Out There I mean in a little room above a cafe called La Niche in Collingwood, on Smith St. And I'm sharing the show with fellow comic Trav Nash, who paints. We've been mates since I started doing comedy in his room, also on Smith St, the Death Star Canteen, downstairs at a good bar called Caz Reitops. I like the idea of two stand up comics putting on an art show. I hope we keep doing that, it's an angle. Over the weekend I had a minor breakthrough when I found a little lamp on my scrounging travels. The sculptures are Big Balls and Small Balls and the Small Balls were looking pretty shaky until I sat one on a lamp. Turns out my balls look good lit up from underneath. I'm sorry, but I've got to make this memorable at any cost. That's marketing. I've always scrounged, I used to make chairs out of recycled parts, including asbestos brake pads for arm chairs. That wasn't m

Gough Whitlam died today. The important difference between this event and his dismissal from the Prime Ministership in the Australian 1970's? There was no CIA involvement. I was a child in the 1970's. When I was old enough to ask, "What happened? How did that happen?" My elders told me they half expected at the time something like a civil war to break out. People were devastated, they were enraged, they were also electrified. The United States of America, to put it bluntly, includes Australia as a remote colony, an outpost. When Gough Whitlam threatened Pine Gap the CIA had to get involved. Pine Gap, located in remote Australia, is a key asset to United States air and space superiority. Many Australians are excited to be part of an Imperial power structure. Many powerful Australians are over the moon at the opportunity to be included in US games of global domination. Whether conspiracy, madness or just weakness, many Australians were quite happy for the US to take

It seems to me people are going to simply cower by their entertainment units hoping the Coming Darkness by some amazing stroke of luck just never happens. Very experienced activists are telling me they see no hope for the future. None. Well there is one, but the mass of people seem extremely militant about not taking action, they are hanging onto their fucking denial like the expert bullshitters domesticated people are. Settle down, don't be like that, because when I generalise about people it's amazing. You see at every protest that threatens to actually take over so much as a single street the same fucking people trying to calm things down. We're too calm. We're comatose. We are going to open-ended war and that will result not just in terror attacks, we already see ASIO let off the leash. How bad does it have to get? 800 fucking cops came up with one plastic sword that was used to spread terror about beheading plots in Australia. 800 cops and all they've done is

Activists who were assaulted by SAS people at Swan Island last week are thinking about taking legal action. Good idea, because more than a few people have made it clear they believe anything a soldier does immediately becomes okay. Gotta love War Magic, where concepts like Loyalty mutate into irreversible brain damage. That shit needs to make an appearance in court where we can all get a good long look at it and cut it out with our mind lasers. Civil society needs to make decisions about who we're going to be is what I'm saying. swan-island-protestors-seek-legal-action I like the legal system. I don't like handcuffs and jails, but I simply adore that powerful institutions can be made to face the music. I hope the case goes ahead and the SAS is exposed for what it is. I think people already know, but also live in denial. It suits a lot of folks to live like that. Well, fuck that shit.  Does any human suck harder than the one who won't face what it's own decisions

Yeah, good, so now every snapperhead has been given the green light to yell at muslim women, or any woman with a scarf on her head or fabric near her face, or any woman who may or may not have been a woman or planning to be a woman. Anyway, the really exciting part is that these snapperhead fucks so far are mostly men, big men, men driving utes, men who are man men from mantown getting their man on in the manliest manner possible. No wait, there was that one vicious assault  by a woman. While it's tempting to make this all about bogans and particularly manbogans, the fact is this outbreak is driven by very educated people, well paid people, people with careers, people with a lot to gain, powerful people in media and government and intelligence and the military. The drones in the street should be fought to a standstill, but at the end of the day they're just following orders. It's not enough to hate them (though do, why not, fuck 'em) because the whole system thrives

Been thinking about the negative side of conspiracy theories again. Let's define that as a case of joining the dots, which is good, but filling in the blanks, which is bad. It's very exciting to think you can see a pattern, but why do it? Why not wait it out? If you are on such an important mission, why not get all your ducks in a row? Conspiracy theories are exciting, but nowhere near as powerful as learning to live with uncertainty. This is triggered by reading this: http://www.metafilter.com/143387/The-insane-conspiracy-theories-of-Naomi-Wolf I went through a conspiracy theory phase and was saved by Robert Anton Wilson, who introduced me to useful thinking tools. I recommend Quantum Psychology and Cosmic Trigger. He seems to be a hippy, but he's not, he's dead. No one killed him though, he died of old age because people trying to tell you the truth are often no threat whatsoever to the powers that be. Yes, there are conspiracies, but they're often opport

Last night a female friend who is a woman was waiting for a train like a human being when ticket inspectors approached, fucked with her peace of mind, handcuffed her for commenting on this and called her a bitch and a slut for mentioning that shit seemed to be getting out of hand rather quickly. Melbourne's public transport is now a fear lottery due to the baffling behaviour of the Myki commuter mugging system and the sudden appearances of revenue bandits in and out of uniform. I have taken to drawing rude words and pictures on my card, like so.      Australians talk a lot of shit about being easygoing but the fact is most of us are just lackadaisical with our own freedoms. Why bother finding out if you're free or not when you can look the other way? There's always something far more interesting to see. Our freedoms are disappearing but it's often seen as hysterical to mention this because of the freedoms we do have.        I had an interesting momen

My last two blog entries may have seemed hysterical but I have been rescued by Australia's finest killers, the SAS, who yesterday went to fucking town on peaceful activists, cutting their clothes off with knives, assaulting them in various terrifying ways and verbaling them with menace. This happened as part of Operation Straya, where the dumbest among us are encouraged to go into full wild dog mode if anyone with a differing opinion pops up a quizzical head. Activists walked onto the base at Swan Island where SAS killing machines are trained and instead of ceasing operations because, y'know, civilian protesters, these champs used the concerned citizens as target practice, running through their interrogation routines like it was rightwingcunt Christmas. It went like this These sociopaths- and they are, the shit they did yesterday makes me very comfortable passing judgement- will be heading over to fight ISIS and you can guarantee they will be cutting off heads first chanc

I'm having a bit of trouble with social media because I keep wanting to tell people to die of cancer. This is because I want many, many Australians to die of cancer. Today. Painfully. While I watch. Well, I wouldn't be strictly watching because my eyes would be rolled back into my head as I experienced an hour-long orgasm as hate left my system in a crippling wave of ecstasy. The next AFP top cop says this wave of terror is like no other and he's right: the terrorists are all born Australian know nothings, the type who love to hate an outsider because it's the perfect crime. Look at me defending my family, I am a good person and it is merely coincidence that I get to indulge my worst urges. I want to come on their faces. I have urges too. And you're right, it's not sexual, it's about establishing dominance. I am so afraid of these people that I'm a mess of power fantasies. I get it. The idea is to hit the nation like a log until it's split int