Venture Bros

I've been really getting into a show called Venture Brothers recently. It's a cartoon that features in the adult swim lineup on the Cartoon Network, and its frickin hilarious. The Venture Bros is a take off of Johnny Quest and the Hardy Boys, both of which I've never seen or read, however, there is definitely enough humour and violence in every episode to keep you interested...
The story is centred on the lives of two twin boys Hank and Dean Venture, completely innocent in nature, due to their being raised solely inside the Venture Industries compound. They do, however, seek a life of adventure, and every episode only narrowly escape death or at the very least dismemberment. Their father Dr Thaddeus Venture is basically the failure son of a genius and all around hero super scientist, the founder of Venture Industries. Dr Venture lives off the ideas of his father, and just never seems to be able to match up to him. Dr Venture's bodyguard Brock Samson is the hardest and coolest instigator of death that you will ever know. He is a secret agent with a licence to kill and he takes every opportunity to make sure that he uses it. He cares deeply for the boys, and will rain death on anyone who even thinks of harming them. Brock has utter disdain for firearms and does the majority of his killing with his bare hands or ever present bowie knife.
Can't really say anything more without ruining it, so just get your hands on a few episodes and you'll be hooked.

Caveman fun

It took a whole lotta work for that short bitta fun. A video to make you glad that we've entered the cyberspace age. he he

Great Article in the Australian today

This is a very powerful speech, designed to make people sit up and have a think about what the consequences of sitting around and being a kid for your whole life really are, for not just yourself, but the whole of your society. Well, that sounds a bit dire, and you probably won't want to read it now, but DO...

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The best part or me was Costello's line about having babies (I've missed out due to living out of the country)- a boy for you, a girl for me, and one for Australia. The author Mark Steyn, says that Costello's call to the nation is more of a security concern than how much is spent on defence. Quite a statement really, if defence spending is really about protecting a way of life, then he's absolutely correct in my book.

Summer Break

It's been ages since I last contributed anything to this budding site. The main problem is that my work schedule is a bit stuffed at the moment while I'm on summer holidays from school. Every day stuck in a small room filled with other bored foreign teachers, tryin' to pass the time till the required time is up. I'll try to get onto it a bit more this week, and stick up a bit of something interesting. At least gotta make it a bit worthwhile to type in this address every now and again.