Archive for May, 2005

Kneel before the ultimate idol of U.S. Cultural Imperialism!

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

(image is of a Darth Vader Battle Buddy, currently an ebay auction item.)

PARENTS! Uncertain of whether or not to take your young ones along to a screening of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith? Worried about the effect that uncompromising portrayals of violence and vengeance may have on your golden-haired children? Studies […]

Celebrity Character Assassination: back by editorial demand

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

Third post in a row that’s treading old ground: we’ve officially hit our creative apex and from now on hell’s paving stones is going into decline. Enough! Back to the regurgitory task at hand!

Here’s a picture of the little demon - we know how much you like pictures:

HPS was toying with the idea of liveblogging […]

Update: Somare’s Soles

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

In the past few weeks there’s been some interesting developments on the ’shoe incident’ - the diplomatic quibble that’s acting as a proxy war for tensions between Australia and Papua New Guinea over the forms of aid to PNG.

On Tuesday, Sir Michael Somare, the PNGuinean PM, made a speech to his Parliament saying that he […]