My World

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I was reading the Vancouver Sun today and was stunned to see yet more coverage of the whole “We were duped by the Borat movie people” fuckwittage.

I’ve read the same story about 17 times now about how the people were told the film wouldn’t be shown in the US, the people were plied with drinks before they signed the waiver form, the people were abducted by aliens and hypnotised just for the movie, etc etc. Ok, I made that last one up, but it’s almost as ridiculous as the real claims that are being made.

People. Honestly! Here’s the deal: Sure, you may have been slightly misled.. some might even say duped.. but ultimately you signed a legal document and gave them permission to show the clips with you in them. Didn’t want to be on the big screen, being an ass, being laughed at? BZZZZT you shouldn’t have signed the form! It really is that easy! So instead of getting all het up and sweaty about it, take your money, buy some booze, and laugh it off with your friends. No one really cares that much. Give it a week or two and it’ll all blow over. Either that, or face up to what you said and stand behind it?

I meant to rant about this in my podcast (which may have been slightly more entertaining), but I forgot. Oh well.. at least we got a blog update out of it eh? ;-)

Walking back from the cinema last night I saw this.. and it made me laugh.. I said it was podcast worthy, Steve said I should take a picture. So here it is:

(click image to see full size version)

I’m loving the word “turbidity” right now! (although I’m loving the actual turbidity of Vancouver water slightly less..) And with no other title springing immediately to mind (there’s no real theme to this week’s show), I went with the title I did “just cos”.

Link: podcast63.mp3 (24:38, 11.3Mb)

In this week’s show:

• Aren’t libraries funny?
• Christmas decorations and Santa Parade rant
• The water situation in Vancouver (aka high turbidity!)
• Larging it for the weekend (aka going clubbing on Friday night)
• TV that rocks: Dr Who, 3 Lbs, Life On Mars
• Blog and email spam rant
• ..finishing with an ending that’s a lot better than many have been, of late :-)

Stuff I Forgot: When I was talking about seeing Stranger Than Fiction, the bit I forgot to mention was that I found it slightly surreal everytime they said the word “Crick”, being as how it’s my last name too.

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