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A long standing tradition, that I've been doing since the dawn of time, is to do a blog post on the first day of each new year, usually ...
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At some point in the past few years, the penny dropped and I realised Apple, Microsoft, and later, Google, were all set up by the deep stat...
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“I t is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the adm...
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Friday, 11 July 2025
Thursday, 10 July 2025
HOW TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Americans know how to dress themselves better than any other nation.
The key to making America the greatest nation on earth again is for Americans to be proud of their bodies and their sexuality, and to stop being inhibited – to show the world they are proud to be their true selves.
And the best way for them to do that is to dress for success.















Wednesday, 9 July 2025
NOT SAFE FOR AMERICANS (NSFA)
The internet is being made safer for Americans.
This is long overdue as many Americans have been offended. Sites like Fakebook and Youtub are now leading the move to protect Americans from gratuitous offense danger (GOD).
Here are some offensive things that qualify as NSFA:
Use of taboo words that should not be spoken
There are certain words that no American should ever have to see, let alone hear uttered. These include:
The “N” word (NIGGER), the “C” word (CUNT), the “F” word (FRIES), the “P” word (PADS), and the “Z” word (ZEBRA)

Questioning of sacred cows
Long held icons of American culture are beyond question. Pointing out that any of these may not hold up well to background checking, would certainly qualify a post as NSFA.
These might include Microsoft, Atomic Bombs, Dunkin Donuts, Alex Jones, The Moon Landing, McDonalds, Bill Cosby, Google, and Mickey Mouse for example.

Discussion of American statistics that don’t look very good.
Especially anything to do with health. Or money. Or crime. Or war. That sort of thing is just inappropriate. And NSFA.
Statistics such as: 66 percent of all Americans are considered to be overweight, the U.S. has never gone a decade without war, Americans watch 4 hours and 42 minutes of television PER DAY on average, doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year, and the United States has the most laws of any country.

Exposing mainstream propaganda
Some subjects can be argued about until the sacred cows come home, but there is always someone still left who hasn’t grasped that they haven’t got a leg to stand on, and will keep attacking the official story. The official story is official, so that means it is true. To say otherwise should be NSFA.
Some things that should never be questioned include: 911, vaccinations, global warming, low fat diets, autism, democracy, water fluoridation and anything in Wikipedia.

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Being offensive
There are certain subjects that should never be encountered by any civilized American. Like money, religion, politics, or going to the bog (restroom) to take a massive dump. These subjects are cheap, unchristian, and politically incorrect…
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
HOT KARL ACTION
HOT KARL ACTION – KICK ARSE ROCK MUSIC FROM THIS CENTURY

HAS THERE BEEN ANY KICK ARSE ROCK MUSIC SINCE 2010?
Following on from my HOT BABOON ACTION CD compilation, and still armed with my trusty CD burner, I made my last compilation CD back in 2009.
It was called “HOT KARL ACTION” (2004 - 2008)
Several times since I’ve had a crack at doing another one, but I’ve never found enough awesome tracks to do a full CD’s worth, so I haven’t ended up doing any more compilation CD's.

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The last time I was inspired to have a serious crack at it was 2016, and my 2016 compilation was going to be called “HOT FART ACTION” (AKA. Am I just a boring old fart?) and only contain tracks from 2016. But I didn't manage to find a CD’s worth of tracks even ranging from 2008 to 2016, so "HOT KARL" ended up being my last compilation CD.
Here it is, my final compilation from the tail end of the great era of rock music (1967 to 2007). HOT KARL ACTION 2004-2008:

2004 – Arcade Fire – Power Out
2004 – Fix up, Look sharp-by Dizzee Rascal
2004 – Upholsterers – Pain (Gimme Sympathy)
2005 – Bloc Party – Helicopter (The Whitey Remix)
2005 – Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen (2006)
2005 – Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor
2006 – Cold War Kids – “Hang Me Up To Dry”
2006 – Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
2007 – Brakes – Cease And Desist
2007 – Kaiser Chiefs – Everything Is Average Nowadays
2007 – Kings of Leon- Knocked up
2007 – LCD Soundsystem – “Time to get away”
2007 – The Shins – Phantom Limb
2007 – The White Stripes – Catch Hell Blues
2007 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs 10×10
2008 – Beck – Gamma Ray
2008 – Flight of the Conchords (NZ) – Inner City Pressure
2008 – The Raconteurs – Consoler of the Lonely
and a bonus track from 2009
2009 – Karen O / Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock (Acoustic)



Monday, 7 July 2025
BADCOCK GOES APE
This is what I did to one of John Badcock's paintings. John Badcock is a NZ painter whose paintings pull in surprisingly high prices. Here is one of a naked man beating a woman with a stick.
I took a photo of one of his paintings in a gallery and carefully added some Toyota HiAce van reflection to give my photo of his painting some added social context.
And then I let rip with a few filters which seemed to bring out the beating aspect a little more. There is nothing like a good beating!
The things you see in the street…
Are we being traumatised by these images? Well I guess that depends how sensitive we are.
I didn’t make any of this up – really I didn’t – Here is a photo of John Badcock:











