Monday, 29th October, 2007

I got up at 3 o'clock the other morning and watched Dylan Moran on YouTube. There's nothing like a few good belly laughs to get one off to sleep again. He said, of Australia, that the whole continent is uninhabitable and that we are all in denial about that fact. There are days when I am inclined to believe him - it's 33 degrees today but I have to cut short any Pommie whinging about the heat by reminding myself that I only came here for the climate.

We are in the throes of a general election in Australia and the longer the campaigning continues the less able am I to dispute the claim that "politics is Hollywood for ugly people". Kevin Rudd is looking older already and he hasn't even become Prime Minister yet. The only politican who seemed able to escape the ageing process was Bill Clinton who still looks pretty tasty even now. Probably the fun he had with Monica stopped him from getting too serious about being the world's most powerful man. It's a shame President Shrub didn't settle for doing party tricks with an attractive woman and a cigar instead of going in for shock and awe tactics in Iraq - although the American people seemed to think that a fiddle in the Oval Office was far more despicable than killing hundreds of thousands of people. Value system slightly out of whack, one would have thought. Hey-ho.

Back to Dylan Moran for some sanity: “I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.”