The Jamjar

News@Eleven

Formula One Fiasco in Indianapolis

OMG.. did you SEE this?? can you believe this? 3 Teams/6 Cars - what a joke!

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Michael Campbell Wins the US Open

I don't know much about golf, but I know about time: last time a kiwi won a major golf anything was the year I was born so that was a bloody long time ago. Nice even par Mr Campbell!

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Lara Croft Gets Married

Was it just me? or was there zero chemistry between Pitt and Jolie? Plenty of bullets - not enough bullet-proof vests. Bit like War of the Roses meets The Fast'r and the Furious'r [or something equally as dumb but with lots of explosions)

I think this'd be a great date movie: Pitt for her, Jolie for him - nothing to concentrate on so it's okay to make-out in the theatre.

LATE BREAKING NEWS: I did have a smile in Mr&MrsS - the guy wearing the Fight Club t-shirt. And hearing Joe Strummer's vocals on a couple of songs. Oh, and the extremely distressed walls of their hotel room in La Paz. But not in that order.

And now to the weather.. it's dark and.. cold.. and Mouse smells of winter: chimney smoke and outside.

Goodnight.

FQ TOPIC: Bad

FQ1: Something you like to do or say that's considered to be bad.

There's a word I use - rarely, but I argue: appropriately - that, in mixed company - hell, in _most_ company - is unacceptable. The wrath that follows its use usually comes from another woman within earshot and so I am careful where I use it. I nearly always use it to describe a man, funnily enough. It's a four letter word and I'm not going to say it here today.

FQ2: Something you like to watch or listen to that's considered to be bad.

I like to download midi files and listen to them over and over. That's actually more like a "dirty little secret" but now it's out, I'm sure it will be thought of as bad in some quarters.

I know my television viewing habits are considered slightly unusual given my gender (Formula 1, Top Gear, League) but I think it's my passion for the first few seasons of Fear Factor seems to get peoples noses screwed up as I describe the stunts - especially the food challenges!

FQ3: Something you like to eat or drink that's considered to be bad.

My food consumption is only considered "bad" by the company I am with. A vegetarian friend, for instance, might considering my order of rare lamb to be "bad". Or someone who doesn't like tamerillos having to watch me gobble those eggshaped droplets of tastey goodness into my mouth might consider that "bad".

I wished, for a moment there, I could have answered this question with "dolphin fillets" or "whale spam" or something.

FQ ASSOCIATION: Tell us something "bad" you associate with the following ten words:

movie: Phantom of the Opera

song: anything by Celine Dion/My Little Venus by The Feelers (I hear the word 'penis' when they sing 'venus' and the lyrics are just too painfully appropriate for an entire 3 minutes)

television: The Biggest Loser

place: the airport and watching my Love leave

book: The DaVinci Code

taste: Lemon flavoured Panadol Soluable

smell: bad salmon

sound: fingernails on a chalkboard

touch: Slime (long chain polymers *shudder*)

sight: 'dogeared' page folds/crooked pictureframes on a wall/bushy unkempt eyebrows