Tag Archives: Australia

Australia’s aural whiz kid takes on H.R.Pufnstuf.

Yup, that’s a Great White. But it’s OK, that one’s totally small.

Last week famed author Armistead Maupin and his husband Christopher Turner were treated shamefully by the bartender at an Alice Springs, Australia restaurant. According to Mr Maupin, they were told to take a seat, after which Mr Maupin’s husband Chris asked if he could use a rest room. “The guy said, sorry, we don’t have one in here but you …

Yup, same song.

Another 80s retro electro flashback.

Via Good As You, here’s a short film on how to prepare your family for the coming global disaster of gay marriage.

“It is very sad that this dark chapter in Australia’s history is led by an atheist Prime Minister in Julia Gillard and an openly homosexual Greens leader, both who have no regard for God nor prayer. Now we have a new crisis brewing in the seas of Australia with Cyclone Bianca in WA just passing through, and Cyclone Yasi in …

NASA published the above satellite photo of this week’s massive storm over North America as another huge system over Australia is being called the worst cyclone in that country’s recorded history. Meanwhile the wingnuts are chortling all over Twitter as to how this winter’s U.S. storms are “the final nail in the coffin of global warming.” Science, they don’t has …

Lovely retro late 90s-ish trance, reminds me of the fantastic album by Grace. Proceeds go to Australian flood disaster relief.

Hilarious Australian comedian/musician Tim Minchin made his U.S. debut on Conan O’Brien last night, performing his classic Inflatable You. (A less censored version is at that link.) You may recall the last Minchin song I posted, the insanely catchy Pope Song.

In what the prime minister is characterizing as the “worst natural disaster in Australian history,” torrential rains have brought massive flooding to Queensland and its capital city, Brisbane.

From his coming World Remix project.

Copyranter notes that Lady Gaga’s biography is being promoted in Australia’s meat cases. OK, then.

Another brilliant entry from the Australian wunderkind.

A just-released poll shows that 57% of Australians now support legalizing same-sex marriage. Via the Sydney Morning Herald: The poll of 1400 voters, taken from Thursday night to Saturday evening, finds two-thirds of Labor voters and 86 per cent of Greens voters support same-sex marriage, while 51 per cent of Coalition voters were against it and 42 per cent supported …