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 | Posted by The Editor on Friday 19 October 2007, 5:42 pm Categories: Australia Decides '07, GrodsNews, Lachlan Connor, Independent Tags: campaign, election, Fraser, HelenRazer, independent, LachlanConnor, SamuelGordon-Stewart |
I’ve been away on a work thing since Tuesday with no internet access. I’ve got to admit that getting away from the tubes now and again is cleansing for the soul. Then again, being on the beach was pretty bloody cleansing as well.
But isn’t it bizarre that you walk away from your laptop and website for only a few days and heaps of shit happens that is really blogable? Bridgit and John have done a great job covering the best of the week’s events but here are two things I noticed when I returned home this afternoon.
1) Lachlan Connor, Independent reviewed by Helen Razer
I spent the mid 90s listening to Helen Razer on Triple J breakfast and think she’s just grouse. Now she thinks Lachlan Connor is at least slightly better than total shit. Here she is writing in Crikey:
As we know, J-Ho and Kevin-in-The-Back-Seat-Of-My-Cadillac have thrilled cineastes the world over with their sterling YouTube contributions. And if this wasn’t enough to convince you that top-down media had been displaced rather in the fashion of a buttery upside-down cake, just have a look at what the electorate is doing.
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The offering by Lachlan Connor, Victorian independent candidate for Senate, is rather like John Howard’s scalp. Which is to say, rather dry in patches. This is certainly the Wayne’s World isomer for Election ‘07.
Awesome! I’ll get a warm fuzzy for the rest of my life whenever I think of those quotes, although as GrodsReaders have been debating, nobody seems quite sure about what Razer means by “isomer”. Now that I know that Helen Razer is watching I might have to have a crack at writing some actual — gasp — scripts, rather than making it up as we go along.
2) Samuel Gordon-Stewart, no longer independent
In disappointing news, Canberra’s own Samuel Gordon-Stewart has withdrawn from his tilt at the seat of Fraser.
the mail reason for my withdrawal from candidature is a lack of support. Despite the handful of people who have put their hand up to sign my nomination form this week, I am still well short of the required fifty signatures. At the beginning of the week, when I made this decision, I was short of twenty signatures, and had about a week to get just over 30 more.
It wasn’t impossible, but at that stage, with a couple other minor issues getting in the way (issues that I could have overcome but were just incredibly inconvenient and poorly timed), and the fact that I have non-refundable bookings for a week-long holiday in Sydney next week that I booked nearly two months ago, I decided that the best option for me, and for Fraser, was for me to withdraw from the race.
Another thing which really hit home on Sunday whilst I was standing outside Government House waiting for the Prime Minister to arrive and meet the Governor-General, was that as much as I was telling myself that I was there as a candidate to witness an historic event, I couldn’t shake the fact that I was there as a journalist (and before any of the usual suspects get started, no, not just for this website). I enjoy journalism, I enjoy being a caller on talkback radio, and oddly, I like the little bit of anonymity that affords me. These things just don’t mix with politics.
Should we start printing up some Samuel10 t-shirts?
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Friday 19 October 2007, 10:22 pm #Mikey
Oh please. LC is awesome as is. The creativity you guys have in the moment is Larry David good. You don’t need to be furiously scripting stuff.
That ‘brother it ain’t chicken’ needs to go on a T shirt complete with photo of Billy.
Saturday 20 October 2007, 10:29 am #Big Ears
Scripting is for pigeons. Like Mikey says LD doesn’t use one and futher, neither does Chris Lilley.
Now that Samuel hasn’t ruled out a tilt at deposing Chief Turnip, maybe Jacob can act as his campaign manager. Failing that maybe LC and SGS could form a party. If that does not work, they can use their blogs as a pincer movement of blogging pundits like zig and zag (bolt and blair) I could start a wordpress blog and parrot everything you write.
*Should we start printing up some Samuel10 t-shirts?
No, they should be Samuel10 red skivvys.
Saturday 20 October 2007, 11:26 am #Goobermetrics
Fellas - You can rest easy. There certainly wasn’t
a sign of a script during the shooting last weekend.