Ring (TAR)

 "I mean whatever you mean." The Ring (USA 2002)

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nothing something anything everything

Sometimes everything looms so large.

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The simplest enquiry can suddenly appear overwhelming when encountered by Mark Heap (Spaced, Upstart Crow, Friday Night Dinner).

 She : Is everything all right?

 He : Everything?

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car TAR (1955)

Late last night Ch. 9 showed the 2015 film LIFE.

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Life is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Anton Corbijn and written by Luke Davies. It is based on the friendship of Life photographer Dennis Stock and Hollywood actor James Dean, starring Robert Pattinson as Stock and Dane DeHaan as Dean.

The film is an American, British, German, Canadian and Australian co-production, produced by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman from See-Saw Films and Christina Piovesan from First Generation Films with co-financed by Barry Films Production. Wikipedia

Set in 1955, an important chapter of LIFE is James Dean's return visit to his family's farm in Indiana. He takes with him the photographer Dennis Stock.

Above, heading back to Melbourne, John Brack's The Car (1955) passes Dean and Stock. As does the outgoing TARmobile troupe, below.

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TAR files : I want to believe

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Vale Terry Jones (1942-2020)

MENU

- Egg and bacon
- Egg, sausage and bacon
- Egg and Spam
- Egg, bacon and Spam
- Egg, bacon, sausage and Spam
- Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam
- Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam
- Spam, Spam, Spam, egg and Spam
- Spam, Sausage, Spam, Spam, Spam, Bacon, Spam, Tomato and Spam
- Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam
- Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay sauce, Served in a Provençale Manner with Shallots and Aubergines, garnished with Truffle Paté, Brandy and a Fried egg on top and Spam.

Wife: (shrieks) I don't like spam!

Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam!

Vikings: (singing) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)

Vikings: (singing elaborately) Spam, spam, spam, spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spaaam! Lovely spam! Wonderful spam. Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spaaam! Spam, spam, spam, spaaaaam!

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Vexations of TAR

Don't F**k With Cats  

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see three | the speakers list | Look at what they've become.

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The extract below is from Hansard, yesterday :
Tony Burke in the House of Representatives, Canberra
The video of these proceedings can be viewed here

The SPEAKER: Is the motion seconded?
Mr BURKE (Watson—Manager of Opposition Business) (14:53): I second the motion. Look at what they've become. Let's not forget what we were told before they became the government. Let's go back six years to what they told us a Liberal-National Party government would be like. What did they say about a surplus budget back then? Joe Hockey said this: 'We will deliver a surplus budget in our first budget and every budget after that.' Well, since then, they've doubled Australia's debt and taken it to half a trillion dollars and are now boasting that maybe in the financial year after the next election they'll, for the first time, fulfil what they said they'd do before they ever came to government. That's where they're at now.

That's because the first Prime Minister they tried on, the first Prime Minister they had a go with, started by saying, 'We can now bring back adult, stable government.' That's what he said—that he'd be able to deliver a stable government. It might not have been stable, but it's been consistent, because the number of prime ministers is three, the number of treasurers is three and the number of deputy prime ministers is three. There's been a consistency to what they've done, but it has been the exact opposite of what Liberal Party voters thought they were going to get when this mob were elected. They promised cabinet government. That was one of the things they said they would deliver: proper, orderly cabinet government. Well, there's an embassy decision that you might have thought you would have had a cabinet submission for, an embassy decision where you might have thought, 'Maybe we should let the security agencies know before we announce this one.' But there was no process, nothing other than, from the Prime Minister in this despatch box, 'Our candidate told us it would be a good idea.' That was with all the resources of government and all the things they told us they would be.

The Leader of the House, when he was the Manager of Opposition Business, would say time and time again, every time the parliamentary program was brought down, 'The House is not sitting enough.' He'd tell us each time: 'You're running scared if you're not willing to have the parliament sit. It's a test of whether or not you're a government.' And now, for the first time since 1901, the parliament is planning to sit for only 10 days in an eight month period. A lot of the debate has been, 'Maybe that's because they're scared of the numbers on the floor of the parliament,' but we're missing the other point: every time the parliament meets, the party room meets. The Prime Minister says to us: 'You're all getting so cocky. You all think you're going to be able to beat a Morrison government.' Well, we don't even know if we'll be up against a Morrison government. All the indications and the little publicity stunts from the people who are a little bit more popular than the Prime Minister raise a whole lot of questions. I can understand why they want to reduce the number of party room meetings between now and the election.

We were also told that, if they won the election, there'd be no cuts to health, no cuts to education, no changes to pensions and no cuts to the ABC—every single one of them untrue. But we don't need to go through our critique of them because, in truth, the brutality of our critique of them doesn't match the brutality of their critique of them. In the newspaper articles we're reading now, it's really hard to get a Labor Party quote in because we're competing with every anonymous backgrounder from the front bench and the backbench, and their language is so much more colourful than ours. Having promised adult government, they then give us a Prime Minister describing his own mob as a 'muppet show'. It wasn't us who described the Minister for the Environment as being on L-plates; it was one of their own senators. It wasn't us who ridiculed the Leader of the House as being a legend in his own lunchtime; it was the man sitting next to him, the Treasurer of Australia.

The Prime Minister seeks to describe who cares about the real issues and what sort of work people are doing here. This is the speakers list that's been distributed on the Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill, which is being debated in the chamber right now. It's a list of Labor speakers, with only one government member speaking for the government's own bill. It's not that their backbenchers are busy—they're on the phone, ringing up people there. They've got lots to say about the government but very little to offer to the Australian people. (Time expired)

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Regarding Women's Work

The Handmaid's Tale 

Season 2 Episode 8 

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The Handmaid's Tale - Season 2 Episode 6 Roll Credits :

Oh Poly Styrene !

Some people say little girls should be seen and not heard
But I say... 1 2 3 4
Oh Bondage! Up yours!
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! 1977

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Mother Tongue

 

 Batman : Season 2 Episode 9 

 The Greatest Mother Of Them All

 Scene 1 : Mother Tongue Twister

 

Dick Grayson : Gosh, Bruce, Greek is
still Greek to me.
Aunt Harriet Cooper : It's Greek to a lot
of Greeks too. Heh. It's one of the
world's oldest, most important, most
beautiful languages.
Dick Grayson : It may be, Aunt Harriet
but can't we take a breather and work out
in the gym for a while?
Aunt Harriet Cooper : But the mind needs
exercise too, Dick.
Dick Grayson : Well, my mind is getting
muscle-bound.

Bruce Wayne : There's an old saying,
Dick. A sound mind and a sound body.
A worthy goal.
Aunt Harriet Cooper : Now, what do you
wanna do first? - Parse, conjugate, or
decline?
Dick Grayson : Decline.

Alfred the Butler : It's the Batphone,
sir.  
Bruce Wayne : Hm? Yes. It just occurred
to me, Dick. Commissioner Gordon is a
Greek scholar of note. He may be able
to tell us more than books and
blackboards.
Dick Grayson : I'd like to talk to him.
Bruce Wayne : Excuse us, Aunt Harriet.

 Scene 2 : Dick Does His Homework

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A script within a script | a play without actors. How bizarre!

In last night's SBS re-run of the original Batman TV series, the illusionist Zelda the Great and her clever criminal companion Eivol Ekdol watch through periscopes as Batman and the Boy Wonder enter the Inescapable Doom Trap : 

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 Look, Batman, a note on the counter :

 "To whom it may concern. Try interesting volume

 on top shelf last book of back row."

 Gosh! Could it concern us? It certainly could.

 Look at that title : The Truth About Bats.

 Wow! That book worked a concealed switch.

 Let's see how the plot goes, huh? 

 Bizarre! A play without actors.

 This script could be for us.

 One way to find out.

 Let's get in the limelight.

 Look, in this booth : It's a bat.

 I bet it means something. 

- Episode 10 : A Death Worse Than fate (1966)

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Terrance and Phillip do TAR

Everyone loves T & P in their box orifice sma shit
'Asses of Fire'.

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After that, who could f f f fu get this grate scene 
  

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...from T & P in 'Not Without My Anus'.

South Park  

Up Date : Terrance & Phillip to sTAR in
'E is for Effart, F for Art'

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TARgets

 AtlanTAR Season 1 Episode 5 : Darius goes to a shooting range.
 He books a bay, buys some bullets, pins up his TARget and 
 starts shootin' ...

 Nice cap, yo!

 Pretty soon, the dog TARget gets some special TAR attention. 

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L ] M O (((( )))) O N [ S

 
Yesterday, high noon, this liquid crystal screen 
untwist again old Sengai's paper scroll 
moon illusion 
         

       
Last night, at 1% wane, watching RAGE
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Killing Moon
           

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"Heads should roll" declares PM

As responsible journalists in this whose-side-are-you-on Australia under the Abbott Government, we have to be careful
in so many ways.

This from a Canberra Doorstop Interview today:

25 June 2015

Prime Minister

Subjects:

Address to Australian Strategic Policy Institute; defence white paper; national security; future submarines project; Q&A appearance of Zaky Mallah.

E&OE

QUESTION:

PM, can I just ask you, what do you make of the ABC's decision to repeat Q &A yesterday, and have you banned Government ministers from appearing on the show?

PRIME MINISTER:

Utterly incomprehensible – utterly incomprehensible. Here we had the ABC admitting a gross error of judgment and then compounding that terrible mistake – that betrayal, if you like – of our country by giving a platform to this convicted criminal and terrorist sympathiser, they compounded the mistake by rebroadcasting the program. Now, frankly, heads should roll over this – heads should roll over this. I've had a good discussion with the Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. I know he has made a very strong representation to the ABC. We've announced that we are not satisfied with an internal ABC inquiry because so often we've seen virtual whitewashes when that sort of thing happens. There is going to be an urgent government inquiry with recommendations, and frankly, the ABC ought to take some very strong action straight away.

On 7.30 (ABC.TV), the Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, is asked about this :

LEIGH SALES: Do you agree with the Prime Minister that heads need to roll over the Q&A broadcast?

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, look, I'll decide what metaphors I use and the manner in which I use them.

Was that witty and weird, or what? Or just a little bit of history repeating?

The word is about, there's something evolving,
Whatever may come, the world keeps revolving...
They say the next big thing is here,
That the revolution's near,
But to me it seems quite clear
That's it's all just a little bit of history repeating.

'History Repeating' (Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey)

JOHN HOWARD, PRIME MINISTER ( 2001 You Tube ): 

We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.

                    

This morning's The Age Editorial (read the full text here) : 

Free speech Forgotten in the Q&A furore

Zaky Mallah made a hotheaded outburst on live television during Monday night's Q&A program on ABC-TV. He has since claimed his tone of voice was perhaps too harsh, which is sophistry, for his words alone were enough to cause offence. Yet Mr Mallah has the freedom to think and say foolish things. Australian ears are not so precious that he must be silenced. Better he be heard, and his muddle-headed logic exposed.  ...

In that light, Prime Minister Tony Abbott was wrong to demand of the ABC "Whose side are you on?" after the broadcast, and again on Wednesday after the program was repeated. This smacks of populist point-scoring rather than a genuine concern about the security of the nation. Is Mr Abbott's faith in the power of free speech so feeble that neither he nor the members of his government can puncture Mr Mallah's opinion, so instead seek to attack the messenger?  ...

                    

This evening, 'Head of the ABC' (sic) Mark Scott delivered the 2015 Corporate Public Affairs Oration : a powerful defence of the role of the ABC. 

Read the full text here (extract below)

Watch the video presentation here

As someone said to me this week, free speech arguments would be easier if you were always defending Martin Luther King. At times, free speech principles mean giving platforms to those with whom we fundamentally disagree.

It was the crux of the Charlie Hebdo argument last year and of course, the source of the maxim that was used to describe Voltaire’s beliefs — “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

     

Here at the offices of bLOGOS/HA HA, our experienced and responsible rédacteur en chef  is not easily intimidated. Nonetheless, pinned to her door - irony? caution? - is this 1872 depiction by CHAM, clipped from our files of Le Charivari : 

a giant of a man, a journalist accused of insulting The Assembly, mockingly crowned with his own publication, sentenced to a year of public derision. LOGOS/HA HA : The Laughing Stock

Que pendant un an le journaliste ne porte d'autre 

coiffure que le numéro dans lequel il a insulté 

l'Assemblée.

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