Corner of solitude

Tommorow is another day, but then it’s also a special day because it’s Valentine’s day. St Valentine’s day or just Valentine’s day is named after Saint Valentine. Saint Valentine is traditionally a medieval figure, a martyr for Christianity, but whose origin is so shrouded in mystery that it turns out that there may have been two or even three Valentines.

My first valentine was the whole of my Kindergarten class. Yep, like every other class in every other schools, the teacher made the kids give out their badly made coloured paper valentine cards to other classmates, even though they didn’t even understand the concept.

Nowadays I can’t get a way with giving out badly made, crayon written, valentine cards any more. Because the joke’s been done before and it’s getting old. But I’m sure if I did do it, Lauren would still manage to laugh or giggle or at the least smile. She’s a sheila with a sense of humour.

I only look for three thing’s in a partner. An appreciation for fine food and music, an all or nothing attitude (that goes for love as well as in life), and the most important thing of all a great sense of humour. And she’s got all of them.

Ah yes! the inaugural Fag of the week. Who will it be? Is it my boss from work? Perhaps the head teacher of Electrical at Meadowbank Tafe? No, it is none other than Oscar winning, phone throwing, TOFOG frontman, Gladiator, Russell Crowe.

That’s right folks, if Bill and Ted were to meet Russell Crowe they would only have one word to say to him, “FAG!”

Crowe’s decision to sack the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league club’s Cheerleaders has earned him the inaugural Fag of the week. People might point out that his wife, Danielle Spencer (a very lovely lady I might add) clearly has him by the balls when it comes to decision making, and hence not entirely his fault.

But after being qouted as saying “. . . our focus is to re-establish rugby league and women. The focus on game day should be a positive experience for the crowd. We feel the cheerleaders made a lot of people uncomfortable . . . and would like to replace them with drummers . . .” makes him head and shoulders the Fag of the week.

How can rugby league be re-established with women when it is the women who are the ones getting the boot? For people to have a positive experience they need something positive to focus on, and I thought that was what the role of the cheerleaders was in the first place. Perhaps the football team should try winning a few more games before this positive focus is to be shifted.

The only people who are made uncomfortable by the cheergirls are the ones who seriously need a private place real quickly after seeing the lovely ladies in action, to try to reaquaint themselves with their right or left hand. And to replace the ladies with drummers of all people, WTF? Perhaps his TOFOG drummer needs a steady day job, Har Har Har.

Writing a story was something I always wanted to do. Something like the old saga’s of the mythological period, with gods, castles, monsters and heroes.

As I was secretly an insatiable reader, I knew I wanted to create something of my own when I read the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, who created a world that was base on our world yet at the same time totally parallel to our past.

But my biggest inspiration was reading the Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. Pratchett’s genius combined witty writing with an engrossing way of story telling, which not only left the reader mesmerized but doubled over with laughter as well. If only I could emulate his way of story writing for just a fraction of a fraction I would be very happy.

So I missed the first episode, I really hope channel seven puts on an encore because I can’t find it anywhere on the web for me to download.

From what I hear and from watching the previews it’s a lot like X-men. The concept of ordinary people finding extraordinary powers and struggling to deal with it, plus the notion that it might be the next step to humanity’s evolutionary scale is totally X-men stuff.

I’ve been hanging out for a show like this to come out, I guess I’m pretty geeky in regards to what I like to watch. Ever since one of the best 90’s tv series, the X-files, stopped airing on tv I’ve never paid much attention to what’s on on the idiot box.