31/03/2007 29.21m
In the train on the way home from the first Swans game of the season. Why I haven’t done a podcast and why I’ve been busy. Some words about the Blue Mountains.
Adiemus II: Cantata Mundi – Cantus “Song of the Plains”
Email me at andrew@andrewfaith.com
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Position:
Bottom = Bottom
Versatile/Bottom = Bottom
Versatile = Bottom
Versatile/Top = Bottom
Hi I’m from Adelaide/Perth/New Zealand = Bottom
Age:
19 = 15
29 = 35
35 = 45
42 = 65
45 = Did you know they have Gaydar in nursing homes now
Bodyshape:
Average = Fat
Large = Really Fat
Stocky = Really Fat in a kind of rectangular way
Rugby Players Build = Really fat but wearing footy shorts
Muscular = I have more fat on my upper arms and chest than most people
Defined = You can clearly make out a head, two arms and two legs coming out of my torso
Swimmers Build = Flippers and tusks and 200kg of blubber to protect againts the cold Arctic seas
Penis Size:
Small = Only ever written as a joke or by men who like to dress up in nappies (the exception being iwearnappies in London – AYE CARRUMBA!)
Average = Small
Large = Bigger than small
Extra Large = Extra bigger than small
Drugs:
Never = Not so far today
Socially = Crack Whore
Rather not say = I am a drug dealer
About:
I am straight acting = My nanna still doesn’t know I’m gay
I’m not looking for a relationship = I only want to sleep with hot guys with big dicks
I have sorted my priorities and I am looking for new challenges = I just dumped my boyfriend and would like to be topped by someone with a really, really big dick
Really loving life right now = Doctor increased my medication
Someone intelligent = Someone who thinks I am fascinating
Someone who takes care of them self = Once you are my boyfriend I won’t have to go to the gym any more but you should keep going anyway
Someone caring = Someone with scads of money so I can quit my lousy job and become the Prada-wearing trophy-wife I have always dreamed of being
Recent photos = Yes this picture of me with massive shoulder pads and fingerless gloves in front of my Kajagoogoo poster is quite recent
Scene:
Skin = I fucking hate faggots but I luuurve fucking them
Goth = I am strange and unusual and I spend a lot of time shoplifting mascara and fishnets from Target
Casual = I have lost all interest in my personal appearance and will wear anything that isn’t stuck to the floor
Trendy = I wear strangely long square toed shoes with little rectangular glasses like a lesbian solicitor
Alternative = Too fucked up to fit into any other category
People from Adelaide/Perth/New Zealand aren’t speaking to me at the moment – at least they make great bottoms
This Saturday is Earth Hour here in Oz. I’ll be a the first Swans match of the season, so I really hope they don’t turn the lights out.
It’s still a great idea and I hope other cities around the World follow suit.
I really don’t understand the people of NSW. Labor romped in yesterday losing only one seat. I think if the Labor Party put a baboon up they’d still win.
Welcome to another four years of hell.
Same shit, different day.
Today’s editorial from the Sydney Morning Herald says it much more eloquently than me about the State election tomorrow. If you live in NSW, make your vote count and DON’T VOTE LABOR.
Editorial
The election campaign has been an undistinguished contest between two lacklustre leaders manoeuvred by teams of image managers. If the public have been excited at all by the battle or inspired by either of the antagonists, they are disguising it well. Every state election is said to be of vital importance; it is a cliche of politics. But cliches are worn out through overuse for a reason: they are true. When electors enter the ballot box tomorrow, they must weigh up which side is best equipped to run NSW for the next four years. That is no small matter. Despite the fog of competing claims and spin-doctoring, and the general air of resigned indifference in which the contest has been staged, this election matters. And we believe the choice for electors is clear.
The Government managed to blitz the airwaves as the election approached, both with publicly funded political advertisements spuriously called information campaigns, and with legitimate party-funded advertising. The first have attempted to lend an air of optimism and renewal to a tired 12-year-old Government; the second have attempted to smear the Opposition as incompetent and a risky choice. These are not arguments, of course. Advertisements rarely are. They are image management. But opinion polls have suggested the images of Labor as sometimes fallible but basically reliable, and the Coalition as inexperienced and therefore risky, have stuck in many voters’ minds. Those voters should think again.
The government of states in the Australian federation is about management. It does not deal with visions of national destiny, but with nuts and bolts – the provision of services, the upkeep of infrastructure. In the Australian political spectrum parties of the right philosophically tend to reject government action, fearing it may lead to oppression and the reduction of individual liberty; parties of the left foster government as a way to limit the distortions of capitalism and promote equality. Labor being, notionally at least, a party of the left, it might be assumed that it would bring vigour and talent to the task of managing this state in government. Under Morris Iemma, Labor has done neither. Its record has been little short of appalling. Government services are in disarray. Trains are slow, late and prone to breakdown. Buses and ferries are in poor condition. Roads are pitted and holed through lack of maintenance. Government schools and hospitals are dilapidated, with a long wait for funds to patch them up. Queues for elective surgery are long.
If maintenance has been neglected, so has investment. Off Newcastle, scores of ships lie at anchor, awaiting their turn for the inadequate port facilities where they can take on cargo. Essential road links such as the Pacific Highway remain largely primitive and dangerous single-lane corridors. The Government has tried to build infrastructure with public-private partnerships but its record is poor. While the M7 has succeeded, the Cross City Tunnel has been a disaster – a model of how not to run such enterprises, and a deterrent to private investors across the world. NSW is feeling the effects of this second-rateism. It languishes near the bottom on the states’ economic league table.
Moreover, as the Herald has repeatedly shown, this Government is addicted to secrecy. The cracks in the edifice of management may be wide and getting wider, but attempts to reveal or inquire into the true state of affairs meet denial and obfuscation at every turn. While pretending to support freedom of information, the Government does little to foster a genuine culture of openness. Only this week, we have reported on attempts to suppress documents on safety risks to the rail network, and on the maintenance backlog in state schools. They are two of many examples. These are not the actions of supporters of freedom of information, but its opposite. The Government’s stated position is straightforward hypocrisy.
SUCH hypocrisy is one of the diseases that over-long incumbency brings. Another is the politicisation of the public service. The Government has no time for independence in the executive. Those who refuse to toe its line are removed or bullied into submission. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, has cited the fate of the former heads of the Roads and Traffic Authority, Paul Forward, and of Transgrid, Philip Higginson, as examples. To these may be added, at a lower level, Labor’s attempt to bully the nurses who revealed problems at Camden and Campbelltown hospitals. They are all examples of a Government grown arrogant after too long in office.
If the Government’s attempt to disinfect its record is faulty, what of its campaign against the Opposition?
As the Opposition Leader, Peter Debnam has run a disappointing campaign. Outgunned by Labor in advertising firepower, he has been defined by the Government as inexperienced and therefore risky before he has had a chance to define himself. His team has not been in evidence around him. Yet on the Coalition benches sits a core of talent that could form the nucleus of a good government. In Victoria, Steve Bracks came to power with a similarly small pool of front-bench talent to draw on. By concentrating power in that restricted group, his Labor Government was able to run that state effectively – to the point where, with fewer natural endowments its economy now outperforms NSW. Given the same opportunity, the Coalition could be expected to do the same here.
As for inexperience – the argument has no force. In any democracy it stands to reason that a new government will be less experienced than the one it replaces. So what? In any case, Labor’s experience of government has been of repeated and widespread failure. Its supposed experience should be seen, if anything, as a liability.
Labor’s best talent resigned soon after Bob Carr. When Michael Egan, Craig Knowles and Andrew Refshauge also quit the scene, Labor lost its edge in ability. Labor and the Coalition now face each other as equals in talent.
It is, we admit, an uninspiring choice for voters, but when they enter the ballot box a choice must be made. As voters look from Labor after 12 years – tired, talentless and arrogant – to the Coalition’s untried and patchy team, they must assess the risks each represents. We believe the re-election of Labor is simply one risk too many.
I spotted this meme over at The Other Andrew so I figured I’d give it a go.
Some of my more gentle readers might want to stop reading at this point – you’re likely going to learn more about me than you care to know.
Have you ever had sex with the opposite sex?
No. Never. Not in this lifetime.
Who is the first person you came out to?
I’m not sure I really came out. I always knew. So did other people. I just confirmed it when they asked.
Are you out to your parents?
They both now/knew.
Do you want kids?
Yes! And I have a wonderful son called Alexander.
Do you have more gay friends or straight friends?
Probably more straight friends.
Were you out in school?
Yes. But not really until I changed from an all boys Catholic School to a State School.
Is your best friend the same sex as you?
No.
If your best friend is the same sex, have you ever kissed them?
N/A
Have you ever done crystal meth?
Not in this lifetime.
Have you ever been in a sling?
Yes. Once.
Have you ever done a 3-way?
A few.
Have you ever dressed in drag?
No.
Would you ever date a drag queen?
Never say never.
Are you a top/bottom or truly versatile?
Versatile, but prefer top.
Have you seen an uncircumcised thingy?
Oh yes. I like them. (Thingy?…)
Have you had sex with someone of a different race?
Yes.
Have you ever barebacked?
Yes. A long time ago. Never again.
How many Cher CDs do you own?
None.
Name your first true love?
Peter. My 6’4″, balding, ugly bastard – his words, not mine.
Do you still talk to them?
Yes. Even though he lives in London we talk occasionally on the phone and email.
Does size matter?
If I was honest, I’d say yes. Not meaning that small is bad, but I don’t think I’d like it to be very small.
Biggest turn on?
Confidence, smile.
Biggest turn off?
Starfish.
Ever been harassed because you are gay?
Yes. It was in passing and I didn’t react, because that’s what they’re looking for.
Worst gay stereotype that applies to you?
Gardening. Knitting. Artistic.
Ever been to a pride rally?
Yes. Mardi Gras, Pride, Candlelight vigils.
Would you marry if you could?
Yes, applications are open.
Would you rather be rich and smart or young and beautiful?
Rich and smart.
Do you sculpt your eyebrows?
No.
Do you trim your body hair?
No. Does shaving your balls count?
Ever had sex with more than one person in a day?
Yes.
Ever been to an orgy?
Yes. I’m more modern than tomorrow.
Have you dated your best friends ex?
No.
Would you vote for Hilary Clinton if she ran for president?
N/A
Do you want monogamy in your relationship?
Yes.
Do you believe in true love?
Not sure about that anymore.
Do you have any tattoos?
Yes, two.
Do you have any piercings?
No.
Would you date a smoker?
Have done. Would prefer no to.
Do you know anyone who has died from HIV?
Too many.
Do you know what Stonewall was?
Yes.
Wonder Woman, Xena, or the Halliwell Sisters?
It’s a toss-up between Wonder Woman and the Halliwell Sisters.
Strangest place you have had sex?
Back of a taxi.
Strangest place you’ve woken up?
On someone’s floor.
Are your best years behind or in front of you?
They’re right now.
Favorite porn movie?
They’re all different. But if it has Eric Evans in it, I’m there.
Are you in love now?
No. Sadly. But I do have a crush.
Ever been in love with a straight guy/girl?
Crush, yes.
Did you ever have sex with them?
No.
Have you ever been to a nude beach?
Lady Bay/Jane at Watsons Bay.
Have you ever been to a bath house?
No.
Ever had sex in public?
A public place? Yes. With an audience? No.
I’ve just ordered my new laptop.
15 inches, 2.33GHz, 160GB hardrive of MacBook Pro goodness.
It should be with me in 8-10 days.
I can’t wait!
What should I name it?
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