Promise yourself…

- To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
- To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
- To be just as enthusiastic about the successes of others as you are about your own.
- To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
- To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
- To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
- To be to large for worry, to noble for anger and too strong for fear.
- To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but in great deeds.
- To think only the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

Wishing you all the best for the future. May you truly live all the days of your life.

Anyway… you can catch up on the story here.

Personally I think the guys been a bit (shall we say) silly… why is the only complaint coming out now? Why hasn’t anyone else complained (especially since the book has been out for ages)?

hmmm… maybe because they realize that its a story??

The homosexuals I know who have seen the movie think it was brilliant and laughed over the jokes made.

However… JC does make a valid point… where do we draw line with regards to this kind of humour?

Enough about this crap… what I’m wanting to share is the open letter written to JC by John Spud Milton…

It’s brilliant!

Dear Justice Cameron

I have never written to a judge before and I must admit that I am rather nervous about doing so, especially to one as decorated and widely respected as you. Wombat, my grandmother, forbade me to respond to your open letter to Ross Garland and the subsequent newspaper reports because she said if I made a cock-up or any silly spelling mistakes you could get me hanged. (I think it’s now only Wombat left who thinks the death penalty is still in operation here.)

Unfortunately, I then saw the headline of the Daily News: “Spud endangers gays – Judge”

The article was faxed to me by a triumphant Boggo eight seconds after it was published. Boggo clearly hadn’t followed what you were saying in your letter because he squawked down the phone, “Hah! Always knew you were gay, Spuddy!”

When I tried to inform the idiot that there was a vast gulf between homophobia and homosexuality he sniggered and hung up. I don’t think he’ll ever get it.

Anyway, after numerous false starts to this letter I decided to consult Reverend Bishop, who grew instantly pale and told me that responding to you in writing would be akin to David taking on Goliath. Unfortunately, I’ve never been one to throw stones and since Mad Dog was expelled, I don’t even have access to a decent slingshot. So if these sentences strike you as lacking in intellectual rigour or as the mere ramblings of an inconsequential young lad, please cast them aside and think no further on them nor me. Better still, you could pretend that I am not even real and that I only exist in the imaginations of deranged people.

Let me first begin with a sincere apology on behalf of The Guv for his insensitive treatment of lesbians and gays in his English class. I agree that the term “rogering lesbians” was totally uncalled for and that our English teacher deserved finger tongs (or worse) for his poor form and obvious intolerance. (There’s probably a good chance that The Guv was drunk at the time and he was most probably showing off like he always does with his bizarre references and shocking opinions.) Remember he’s a cranky guy and often strange sentences pour out of his mouth. He frequently uses the word “rogering” like in first year when I was a still a spud and he advised me to “Roger the entire chorus line before the end of the month.” I don’t like his occasional bigotry, or his heavy drinking, but he has still changed the way that I look at the world around me. It’s tempting to saythat I shouldn’t have written that offensive statement down in my diary and then it never would have reached the screenplay and now the papers. I could have simply replaced it with a line as tame as a sleepy orange house cat. But that would not have been my true account.

Like you, I also enjoyed the film but had one major reservation that also kept me awake at night. It wasn’t the homophobia, or the sexism, or the racism, or the scene when I had my balls polished. It wasn’t even the examples of statutory rape which Eve repeatedly deals out to Rambo (this despite Rambo greatly enjoying them). Nor was it when The Guv made me drink alcohol at age 13 and filled my head with the notion that life is absurd and insane and that we are all poor players in some never-ending Kafkaesque farce. What really drove me bonkers was that the character of myself was played by a blue-eyed Australian! I mean, if that isn’t a low blow, what is? Not that I’m xenophobic, mind you; it’s just that ever since Shane Warne, I just don’t like Australians that much.

I guess the point I’m making is that it would probably be impossible to read any of my diaries or watch Mr Garland’s film without being slightly offended by something or other if you feel really strongly about that particular cause or standpoint. Seeing other people laughing at something personal and serious to oneself is difficult, like when people repeatedly mocked my late development and its nasty repercussions. My limited experience of life is that many people say offensive things, like Rambo, who deliberately tries to antagonise people with his verbal abuse and ultra cool demeanour. You mentioned the word “faggotism”. I guarantee that you won’t find that word in any dictionary because Rambo made it up to look cool and have power over us because the word was his. I don’t like the word either and would never have thought to use it myself, but I still wrote it down because he said it and I was there and the moment happened before my very eyes. I don’t think Rambo accused Vern of “fagottism” by lazy accident. He said that word specifically to demean and humiliate Vern for stealing everybody’s underpants. For that in my experience is the way that boys humiliate each other.

The third and final incident of lazy homophobia that you identified in the film was around Mr Lilly the art teacher. Fatty’s sage comment made whilst leaning against the wall of the tuck shop was, “What’s so terrible about portraying a flamboyant art teacher who tries his luck at organic rugby coaching?” What offends you, makes others lurch, makes some people laugh, makes a few debate and the odd person walk out. Still, it’s good to have debates about these things and perhaps I need to see the film again, this time with a pen and pad.

I do apologise if this letter seems in any way immature or insincere or if it offends or irritates you further. That is not my intention. I also apologise for the offence that my words caused and I don’t argue that you have the right to voice your offence about the Spud movie. I once read that honesty trumps guile every time, and if I’m being honest, then I’m really sorry that you didn’t invite Mr Garland, whom you know to be an intelligent, generous and talented man, around for a fragrant coffee and discuss this issue with him face to face. If that bastard Sparerib hadn’t caught me running to dinner yesterday and given me a month’s detention, I would have loved to have been there, too, for what I would imagine could have been an excellent discussion.

Thank you again for your time and I hope to meet you someday – just not in
court.

Best regards

Spud Milton

Senior Dorm

Friday 14 January 2011

(Taken from here)

However… despite this, the one thing I always look forward to is when LifeChurch.tv begins including Christmas carols in their worship sets. It’s always fresh and it always gets ones foot tapping…

Check out this video of Trent Austin’s version of “The Little Drummer Boy.” The drum solo is just phenominal!

Earlier this year, the operator unveiled a new corporate identity, which involved an advertising campaign to promote its new HSPA+ network. Cell C appointed South African comedian Trevor Noah as its brand ambassador.

The operator’s bold move came under fire as some customers felt “set up” by the entire campaign, arguing that Cell C was making a joke out of its customers’ complaints.

Shortly after the unveiling of the new corporate identity, Cell C’s new logo got provisionally rejected by the registrar of trademarks.

Most recently, the operator’s reference to its 4Gs network has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The authority found the term to be misleading in relation to network technicalities; however, Cell C argued that it was meant to be used as a marketing term: “4 great speed and 4 great service”.

Hoping to ride in the limelight of this controversy, the new Nando’s advert pokes fun at the operator’s campaign, by introducing a “Chicken Experience Officer” responsible for ensuring that Nando’s keeps up service levels and delivers quality food.

The fast food franchise also poked fun at Cell C’s recent 4Gs debacle by introducing its 5Gs special, which offers “5 great sauces”.

In response, Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt is arranging for the delivery of two of its new 21.6Mbps USB speedsticks with 60GB of data to the marketing director and CEO of Nando’s.

“I trust that the Nando’s executives will enjoy their new super-fast Internet connection and that they will consider adding ‘Speedchicken’ to their menu,” he suggests.

(Article taken from here. See the Nando’s ad here.)

He’s here! Christopher Titus is in South Africa!!! Even better, he does his first South African show in CAPE TOWN tonight!!

If you haven’t yet got your tickets, get hold of me asap! Great news is that as a reader of this blog, I can offer you a awesome special on ticket prices! I am able to offer you tickets at a lower price than what computicket can offer!

The show starts at 20h30 with host Mark Palmer and opening act David Newton.

If you’re in JHB, he’ll be at Gold Reef City tomorrow evening!

For more info on the show click here.

Hope to see you there in the front row!

This guy is a legend and I can’t wait to get to see him live!

If you have no idea who he is… firstly, SHAME ON YOU, and secondly head over to youtube… there are loads of clips for you to cry with laughter over.

If you haven’t yet got your tickets, head over to Computicket now and pick a date:

Cape Town – 26 November

Joburg – 27 November

Get more info here.

THIS “NEVERLUTION” WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

Read this interview from EXPRESS NIGHT OUT with Christopher Titus about “NEVERLUTION” –

» EXPRESS: Your new show is called “Neverlution” — can you give your definition of that word?

» TITUS: It’s a made-up word. The word [defines] any country that needs to have a revolution, but due to their big-screen TVs, refuses to.

» EXRESS: What are you trying to say with this new show?

» TITUS: The whole point is that I establish why we need a revolution again, and then I point out why it’ll never happen. We used to be the best in the world at revolution. We started this country, we told England to screw off, we came here, and we were the best in the world. And then we got fat and happy. The last revolution we had was in the ’60s, and white people just kind of watched that. The whole show is about taking the country back from our kids, because they’ve just become weenies, taking the country back from the technology that’s running us and taking the country back from politicians.

» EXPRESS: So do you subscribe to any particular political party?

» TITUS: No. I voted for “Bush I” once. I voted for [Ross] Perot, I voted for Bill Clinton and I voted for — and I hate to admit this — Bush II the first time. And then I voted for Obama. I am like most of America — in the middle. Anyone is who in the wind tunnel with Nancy Pelosi on the left or in the rifle hut with Rush Limbaugh needs to take a deep breath. That’s not the way the world works.

» EXPRESS: Is there ever any fallout in your personal life from your act?

» TITUS: Yeah. Well, my dad hated “Titus.” I literally had to have testimony from my brothers and sisters to make my dad accept it. I released [the one-man show] “Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding” on DVD recently, and there’s an interview with my dad we put in with the extras. And my dad in the interview goes, “You know I never abused him, and if I did, he deserved it.”

BOOK NOW to SEE THE “NEVERLUTION” happen LIVE in SA by clicking on www.neverlution.co.za

(Interview taken from here)