Kicking ass and taking names... old chap!

One of my last posts was about how I was setting up a team called The Burgers to grow a mo and support the Movember thing. I sent out an email to all of the usual suspects (Barnes, Chaz, Naut, HAVOCK etc) only to find that I had been pipped at the post by Naut who had set up a team called the Tom Selleck Allstars or some such name...

You can click on the link above to see how this lame-ass group of girlie-men have managed at their pathetic attempts to grow some facial hair - it almost makes me laugh out loud!!

The silly thing is that not only have I grown more manly whiskers in the time so far but I have also raised over THREE HUNDRED BUCKS for supporting men's health issues such as prostate cancer - the illness we all wish never to see or hear from...

This is more then that entire team of reprobates has managed combined.

So now is the time for all of you people out there to either show them or myself the colour of your money!

To make a (sizable) donation to my mo - please click on this link here or for those Tom Selleck people click at their link above. I mean it is embarressing that some of them have no donations at all!

After all (jokes aside) that is the reason that we are all looking like strange guys who think the seventies are still happening - it is all to raise money for a very worthy cause...

In the meantime I will be chowing down on the free hamburgers that you get from Grill'd when you raise over $25 in donations - see I knew there was a reason I called my team The Burgers...

This one is for Barnes...

Article on weird show on the ABC about Robot Wars which was actually pretty interesting...

Are we men or are we MICE?

I was going to get back on this bike of a blog and talk all about my recent trip to Cairns, how great it was to get out and feel that humid tropical sunshine hitting me and my melanomas and the emotions of catching up with longtime friends after a prolonged departure.

But instead I am here to see if you will join me brothers? Can this ragtag crew of Burgers get-together and grow facial hair for men's health?

Yep - it is that time of year again when men throughout Australia start sprouting the unthinkable on their upper lip and Sweet Thang has said that facial hair won't have any effect upon our sex life as long as it is for a good cause. So I am joining the ranks of the brotherhood of Movember...

It is scary as hell but I can do it if you guys are with me... Join the The Burgers here and stop shaving! Or if you lack the testosterone to make a real mo then you can always just donate to the cause at this site.

Go The Burgers!

Been busy

I was just reading JB's blog post about blogs and realised that I have been most remiss in my netizen duties here, so will post a quick update about a few things.

I finally found a house whose owners were prepared to sell it within my budget - it wa spassed in at auction and I was the highest bidder. After a starnge three way discussion with the Real Estate guys they agreed to a price which suited me and before I knew it I was signing a contract... Settlement isn't until January though and the place needs some work so now my weekends are spent looking at renovation and kitcehn displays and worrying about money again...

I have also gotten a mild addiction to Company of Heroes at the local net cafe and find myself sneaking away there after work to take on whoever I can in an online game way too often.

While I have been lurking around Cheeseburger and Bluntie without making much of a contribution but have been spending a lot of time over at Facebook posting whatever inanities I can think of but am finding it hard to get into the whole Tweet thing...

By the way I just neded to post this - hilarious in-joke!

The more things change...

Last week we had a spectacularly succesful Burger get-together here in Melbourne with JB, where we were joined by an old uni-mate named Mr Dave Sag who also happened to be in town on a bit of a suprise visit. Apparently he is now involved in some sort of carbon trading company which sounded too good to be true.

However for those of us who have known Dave for a while, nothing would ever suprise us. Although today I was surprised to see that Dave was quoted in a front-page article in The Age on 'Carbon Cowboys' ...

All aboard

We had a little bit of wind yesterday afternoon down here in sunny Melbourne. As I was heading home I saw this little scenario just down from the Essendon station. The funny thing is that the train will be full of soem very pissed off commuters because it was a V-Line which services regional Victoria so some residents of Bendigo and Catslemaine were going to be very very late getting home...

State of the World

I see that the North Koreans have released the imprisoned American journos after a visit by Bill Clinton to make their case. I think it was Chaz who pointed out on JB's blog that our man Hu in Beijing probably won't get as much sympathy or support here in Australia because he doesn't look like us. It didn't seem to matter much to the yanks that the two journalists were of Asian extraction though, and although it may be ALP "Real Politik', it shouldn't matter to us either.

However which former statesman would we send to Beijing to get Hu released anyway? I can't see John Howard doing the job, now that he is a former PM he doesn't have to pretend anymore about all of that multicultural Australia stuff, Paul Keating would just offend them all over again and Bob Hawke - well I don't think we should bring him up do you? Fraser would just lose his pants again and that only leaves Gough...

Well my money would be on Gough, after all wasn't he the one who did a Richard Nixon and opened up relations with the PRC anyway?

Of course there is always the possibility that the reason that Rudd has been so inactive on this issue is that Hu really is an Australian spy? But I think that would be giving way too much credit to ASIS and too little to Rio Tinto...