grodscorp@grods.comAlexander Downer: blogger
 | Posted by The Editor on Tuesday 22 April 2008, 3:15 pm Categories: Blogosphere, Politics Tags: AlexanderDowner |
I suppose that one advantage of being demoted from Foreign Minister to opposition backbencher is that you all of a sudden have a bunch of time on your hands. Some politicians write memoirs, some take up golf, and others start blogs.
From this week onwards I’ll be writing a blog on current issues in Mayo and beyond. You can send me an E Mail and tell me what you think as it’s important for me to get feedback.
As opposed to some other politicians’ “blogs” this one is an actual blog, in that it allows comments (although I’m not sure if they’re moderated.) The few entries so far tend to be long and thoughtful pieces on a range of topics, which is admirable regardless of one’s stance on Downer’s politics. However, as the friend who sent me a link to this blog said in her email “I can’t tell you how much joy this is bringing to my life especially as so many begin with ‘just last week I was talking to [insert former world leader].”
Here are some choice quotes from some of the posts.
Last Wednesday I caught up with an old friend, Chris Patten. He was the last British Governor of Hong Kong…
My putter is Korean. It was given to me by Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations after I cleaned him up on a splendid course in Seoul.
18 months ago I arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris and was greeted on the front steps by President Chirac.
Over breakfast with Madeleine Albright…
This week I asked Condi Rice if she was backing a horse in this race.
I look forward to reading more of Alexander Downer’s name-dropping blog-of-showing-off.
GrodsThink Ep.29 (26/8/08)
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 3:20 pm #Bron
OK, now I’m really confused. Who are supposed to be the elitists? Leftards or rightards?
Or perhaps just the Downers?
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 3:21 pm #Almost Always Wrong
aww dolly lernt to internets. I wonder if costello will join him in his experiment?
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 3:35 pm #krypto
yes, yes I’m sure all those big names will be beating a path to Xander’s door now that his biggest claim to fame is “member for Mayo”.
I’m trying hard to think of a mayonnaise joke to insert here but, you know, this stuff doesn’t just write itself.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 3:40 pm #krypto
OK, I had to google one but here goes…
The mayonnaise joke:
This walrus had his car break down so he took it into the shop to be fixed and walked across the street to get a bite to eat while he waited. After a few minutes the mechanic walked in and said to the walrus, “Looks like you just blew a seal!” The walrus wiped his mouth and replied, “No man, that’s just a little mayonnaise.”
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 4:20 pm #Damian
Bugger: too slow with the elitist comment. Can’t wait for the anti-elitism attack dogs to get hold of Lexy and tear him to pieces. And Aurora will love to hear that he’s chummy with spawn-of-satan enemy-of-freedom and general commie bastard, Ban Ki Moon.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:25 pm #spuddgunner
‘Over breakfast with Madeleine Albright…’
The mind boggles……what a lovely couple they would make……
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:30 pm #John Surname
Over drinks with Geoffrey Rush, he mentioned that Downer was a lovely chap. Maybe.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:31 pm #spuddgunner
ooohh, ooh, oooh…..almost missed this gem of gems:
‘No offence meant but today our State politics is so dull, so managerial, so prosaic. It’s soulless.’
Lexi made adelaide politickings exciting. The shapely fishnet ankle, lest we forget. Those were the heady days, days of wine and roses…(or, alternately, the days of whine and posers…)
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:33 pm #Bron
Come to think of it, Downer’s lunches, dinners, drinks, meetings etc with the rich and famous is NOTHING. I hung out backstage with Lenny Kravitz at one of his gigs in Australia.
SO THERE.
And it was completely free of sex, drugs but not rock’n'roll. Waste of time, actually.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:35 pm #Bron
Yeah, you’re right, Spuddgunner. Don’t forget the heady days of the Things that Batter, either.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:41 pm #spuddgunner
Yeah, rightiyo Bron, between Lexi and Hanson they put the traditional art of potato/piscatorial purveying in the perennially defiled file.
jeez he’s a nub. Does Lenny K have an attractive chest wig?
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:48 pm #krypto
“Over breakfast with Madeleine Albright”
“what a lovely couple they would make”
That’s hysterical, one ugly old woman and another, even more ugly old woman.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:53 pm #spuddgunner
And one has the power to enact change that can affect the entire world…and the other one ….doesn’t. Unless a walrus is involved, or a 9 iron. Or both.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 5:54 pm #Dave from Albury
Does Georgina Downer still work at DFAT?
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 6:07 pm #The Editor
Welcome, new kid.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 6:20 pm #Bron
Does Lenny K have an attractive chest rug? You know, I can’t remember. I think he was covered up. Which, come to think of it, is strange for a rock star.
Tuesday 22 April 2008, 11:29 pm #Wah
How many times does he say Mummy, short pants, boarding school and Vaseline?
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 12:23 am #Ray Dixon
What surprises me about Alexander is that here’s a bloke who was born in 1951 meaning he became a teenager in 1964 in the early days of Beatlemania and lived his entire teenage years through the youth revolution of the 60s.
Yet he comes across as someone born in Howard’s pre-war generation. I bet he’s never even heard of The Doors.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 5:06 pm #droo
And some even do what they are paid to do, ie. represent their constituents in Parliament. Not good ole Dolly, though. That’s too much like earning a living…
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:29 pm #Mikey
I actually clicked on that link.
Damn you Grods fuckers! Damn you all to hell!!!