Ethan Switch - Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 18:02:37
Shuffling on the sweep away, not to be seen again for another four years, and even then ever so briefly, the parathletes of the 2004 Paralympics held in Athens, Greece farewelled the remnants of a crowd still seated and still glazed over their doughnuts, fearful of a painful encounter with a hard surface.
Over the eleven days of the 12th Paralympic games, competition was hard fought to raise any kind of awareness back home. Advertisements and backhanded glares remarkably upbeat in the absent face of displayed sport beyond much delayed coverage provided ably by SBS.
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Belvedere Jehosophat - Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 18:19:19
Sad eyes peering out of a returned book of poetry divulge the history of a man and a quality of despair unmatched.
(Instant in a bar; glasses clash, clink, collide)
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Ethan Switch - Monday, September 27, 2004 - 18:41:31
Season 2004/05 of the National Basketball League is about to slide into full scale motion and the mind games and territorial land rights have already started between cross city rivals the West Sydney Razorbacks and reigning champions, the Sydney Kings.
Making a guest appearance at Cabramatta's Moon Festival yesterday, three players from the Sydney Kings—along with some radio DJ from The Edge 96.1 running under the moniker of Sharpy—where on show for the main stage surrounded by moon cakes, dancers and little children walking around with lighted (and flammable) paper lanterns.
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Ethan Switch - Friday, September 24, 2004 - 17:58:47
On the seventh day of paralysed competition in Athens, Greece, the pressure continues for the other sports to keep on their funding toes as search engine Google celebrates the birthday of Ray Charles, despite the singer/songwriter having been dead since June this year.
With the AFL grandfinals looming extremely soon on the weekend and the NBL to start up not far from now, tactics are getting desperate and highly questionable for the much forgotten, largely ignored Paralympians winning and losing medals and breaking their own world records.
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Jimmy Weasel - Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 21:38:14
"Disgraced" businessman Rene Rivkin was today granted the ability to serve out his sentence in prison in one bite-sized chunk as opposed to the recent dripfeed pseudo-sentence. Reports vary as to the reason for the change in plan—some venture that it was due to recent psychiatric assessments, and a suicide attempt.
"He's clearly brainsick," mumbled one bystander, shoving off political pamphlet-givers at a nearby train station. "We yield to this idiot when he threatens life, but stand up to terrorists? I'm tired of hearing about him and his reeking shenanigans."
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Ethan Switch - Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 18:13:25
Race this hunt and burn the candles tapioca. Yesterday, Indonesians cast their votes in the country's first direct presidential elections. Heading into the polls were two flavours of particularly similar tastes: bland, innocuous and down the middle at the same time. Holding over the country with a lightbulb from the old house recently put on the market after a little excavation, Megawati Sukarnoputri faced her one time chief security minister, and an army general from the Suharto times, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Mere blasts in the recent shock of the not too distant cried out families and friends of the victims around the outer of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, target prime for the "terrorists" and their lot. Shorts leading up to an election, the current stay of power resulted in a short circuit and the opposition slid home on the mud of metaphor.
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Ethan Switch - Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 00:03:49
With no shows from the legged basketballers (still out of the play on Spain's not so intellectually disabled Paralympians at Sydney 2000), day one of the twelfth Paralympic Games closed out with medals from the likes of shooting, fencing, judo and cycling.
Aiding a few thousand here and there in the backwash, acid drops and dragon runs to capture an expected surrealism to the opening ceremony was lost. Peacocks playing Country (Celebrity) head leading countries and their players into the cauldron of aired out sweat. An extremely massive tree sitting in the middle of the stadium waiting to be engulfed by the spark and flames of the torch lighting and celebrations. A Daft Punk feel to an opening number and this is what the viewers across the globe via less than half of the Olympic broadcasters were served.
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Ethan Switch - Monday, September 13, 2004 - 17:22:25
National security, strength of will, health and education of the masses. Topics and issues which reared their collective and finely grotesque heads and featured prominently in last night's Great Debate between stand under Prime Minister John Howard and the fist balling alternative, Mark Latham.
Showing the fine form seen at many buffets, the panel, moderated by two seater Laurie Oakes, failed to snap back and forth with witty repartee as the combatants drew their barbed tongues and sworded each other at length. Composure was markedly present as the interjection was kept to minimal lunges.
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Ethan Switch - Friday, September 10, 2004 - 14:05:34
Fighting against the Angus & Roberston spruiker on the start of the end of the last three days of a four day sale, as well as a lone hairdressing leaflet man, the Children out of Detention group stored centre in the Pitt Street mall in the left aorta of Sydney's CBD earlier this fine weathered day.
On the subject of Human Rights, the group featured an appearance by silent Big Brother 4 evictee, Merlin Luck. Surrounded by an island of black tshirt wearing supporters, Luck garnered the occasional applause as onlookers in their lunch hour watched on. Centre stage to the left of the stage, a young boy no older than ten was snapped into line after his metre and a half placard/sign fell victim to a top heavy lop.
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Ethan Switch - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - 17:52:42
Whirling winds like a tour for the gaping jaws, Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins has thus far been seen as one rather "accident-prone" woman. Within ten days, less than a week apart, two incidents have surfaced of this ex-Newcastle Knights cheerleader. Last week, amid a throng of cameras and constant televisual replays, Hawkins found herself bearing her red G-string uncovered arse to a crowd gathered in slobber at Westfields Miranda in Sydney. Yesterday, during Melbourne's Spring Fashion Week, along the banks of the Yarra River, the cheerleader-cum-model slipped on the wet stone steps, her minders reacting with the pace of snails underfoot after a rainy day as it was.
"Oh my God, what is my luck?," said Hawkins of her predicament. A set up no doubt. Endearing herself to the Australian public would be their calls. Their suspicions raised now to the circumstances surrounding her rise to the top of the crop amongst a bevy of other Earth-based contestants in the Donald Trump owned Miss Universe pageant.
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Ethan Switch - Monday, September 6, 2004 - 17:41:05
Hand in hand, the mounds of sticky and soiled tissues prepared for a load shot by PM Howard's release. Out for the day amidst the family skin and the win they would bring, the throat croaked, "There is no greater priority than the protection of Australia's children." Bracing for the planned attack on wholesome values, an initiative to wipe out the pornography that taints minds and empties out pockets.
Eyebrows and the man were shoved hard against the light as the Arts and Sports minister with no chin and a name of Kemp was trotted out. Calculations were made, monies were counted and portions on funding were exposed. Magic Dirt, touring the land with a Government grant and a show of rock across an outback of schools. Their style of explosion not the focus here, or how long they've been fighting for some cheese, instead, the squeeze is on their lyrics and the profanities, debauchery and drugs laced within.
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Ethan Switch - Wednesday, September 1, 2004 - 23:59:34
Welcomed home amid a throng of flashbulbs and uncontrollable tear ducts, the Australian athletes of the Athens 2004 Olympics. From one campaign to another, their first steps onto terra firma were into and alongside the arms of the greasy politicians set now into day three of Election 2004.
Cheesy grins and handshakes whole hearty, the players in the game watched in awe as the tussle to brace their full set of front teeth rattled the other. Howard over Latham, Latham over Howard; the sparks were bright and gloss sheens high in the afterglow of such a raw performance.
Read the rest of Greased all over, they win gold medals for this
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