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Bird Turd, Let the Bird Poop on Bad Tweets #poop
Bird Turd :: Let the Bird Poop on Bad Tweets
Bird Turd makes Twitter a game. In Bird Turd, YOU are the bird. And when you see a tweet you don‘t like, YOU CAN POOP RIGHT ON IT.!!
That‘s right, facebook doesn‘t have a dislike button, but now twitter does! So if you have a love/hate, or just a hate, relationship with twitter, you can show your dissatisfaction with Bird Turd
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Princess Internet – Katherine’s Strange Blessings #Melbourne International Comedy Festival #geekgirl
Katherine’s Strange Blessings for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Or how to put on a variety show with one person or less.
Katherine has experienced many strange blessings in her life. Her new show entitled Strange Blessings being amongst them.
Strange Blessings is the story of the Blessington Community Variety Show. Every year the citizens of this small town strut their stuff: the librarian reads her saucy poetry, the plumber shows off his skills at air guitar, and Lord Mayor Frank the Bunny-Eared Angel demonstrates that his toes are indeed twinkly, performing a dance number with the mistress of ceremonies. This year something special happens when two of the performers discover true love.
Katherine says, “As a child if an activity proved creative, I was in it boots and all. So the only job that seemed to ’sensibly’ combine my interests in comedy, writing, singing, dancing, acting, and macaroni necklaces was creator of Broadway musicals. I studied playwriting at the University of Washington where one of my schoolmates was Kyle MacLachlan.”
Katherine’s first job out of uni was editor-in-chief for a computer game magazine. This job led her to become the author of Australia’s first Internet book for the average punter, Surf’s Up: Internet Australian Style. The book sold out in a week. The media dubbed her “Princess Internet”. The book then led to a PhD scholarship for studying storytelling for computer game design at RMIT. Later it was sung on Spicks and Specks.
Since 2006 she has been working on her skills as a stand-up comedian and TheatreSports
improvisational actor performing at such venues as The Rhino Room, Comix Comedy Cellar and The Grace Emily in South Australia, and Willow Bar in Victoria. She has even done some writing for Monkeystack Animation and Nickelodeon. “I’m back doing theatre, but now I have the technological know how to do it myself using multimedia. Blessings don’t come much stranger than this.”Strange Blessings is a one person show making use of soft toys, balloons, and audience
participation to bring quirky and endearing characters to life. It will be on throughout the Melbourne International Comedy Festival at POP Upstairs, 68 Hardware Lane, Melbourne CBD, 24 March–17 April 6-7pm Tues-Sat.Tickets through Ticketmaster outlets or call 1300 66 00 13, Comedyfestival.com.au.
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Deadly Funny – An #Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comedy Competition
Get ready to laugh your MOOM off with Deadly Funny – An Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Comedy Competition that celebrates distinctive humour of the First Nations Traditional Owners.From now until March, 2010 the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is sending some of its finest comedians to ATSI communities to hold free workshops and community showcase gigs with emerging performers in search of the best up-and-coming stand-up talent.
Deadly Funny provides a unique opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to
come together, celebrate and share humour and have their deadly yarns workshopped by a professional stand-up comedian. The workshops provide deadly tips and advice on writing, performance and help boost performers’ confidence to get up on stage.To register, contact Deadly Funny Producer Jason Tamiru (Yorta Yorta) info below. For the workshops bring along five minutes of your best comic material. Pretty much anything is ok – stand-up, a music piece, joke or a funny yarn – as long as it’s Deadly Funny. You must be Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander to enter.
The deadliest jokesters from all six states will play off at the Deadly Funny National Grand
Final in Melbourne April 10 for their chance to win $2000 in cash and a deadly trophy.Note: You must attend comedy workshops
Details of National workshops and to register at www.deadlyfunny.com.au
Or contact Jason Tamiru on 03 9245 3700.
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Check out Mozo’s Vice Calculator and become Australia’s first vice president.
It’s on the search for Australia’s first “vice” president using the quirky Vice Calculator. The “vice” calculator shows how much you will spend on vices in your lifetime.
Here’s a chance to figure out your vices, either giggling heartedly or nervously at the results! Mozo is asking people to post their “vice score” and a campaign pledge on Facebook to win $5,000. Perhaps a great way to bring some levity to the excess of the silly season and fuel for a New Year resolution!
Check out the campaign landing page and maybe find out your vice score:
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RAW Comedy – Registrations now open for 2010 National Heats
Who’s going to be the greatest unknown Daredevil of Funny?
The Evel Knievel of the mic?
RAW Comedy is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s annual hunt for Australia’s as yet undiscovered wit – it’s the country’s biggest, largest, fattest, most prestigious open mic competition. It gets under way for 2010 in January, with heats held across the nation.
There will be razzle-dazzle displays of blatant idiocy cloaked in heroicism as contestants willing and able to make the bravest of comedy leaps get to battle it out for the crown of 2010 RAW Comedy Winner at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in April.Anyone who has earned less than $500 from performing comedy is eligible to try their luck. Five minutes of new, original comedy material is all it takes - stand-up, sketch, double and triple acts, musical comedy are all welcome. Would be comic geniuses wishing to swap the bread-line for a punch-line can register at: www.rawcomedy.com.au
Those who want to witness the witticism of contestants with crash-proof nerves of steel as they take part in RAW Comedy heats, can find venues and dates on the website.Heats will be held in Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Newcastle, Canberra, Geelong, Wollongong and Byron Bay.
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South Park Season 13 Whale Whores
Preview – it’s the Japanese!
Things turn bloody when the Japanese attack the Denver aquarium!
Ok, you’re right it is South Park highlighting the issue of dolphin slaughter in Japan – watch.
PS. Save Japan’s dolphins.
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The Yes Men fix the World. Goofball indeed.
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks.
From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.
Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed.
Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun?
GG: if only it were as easy as they make it out to be
Cool trailer though. Watch it.
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Hitler Finds Out About iSnack 2.0
Hitler is unimpressed with the name Kraft have chosen for their new Vegemite-based spread.
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FULL TILT at the Arts Centre presents CANDY BOWERS in Who’s That Chik?
Event InformationWho’s That Chik?
A hip hop tale of a brown girl with big dreams. After the smashing success of Sista She and The House of The Holy Bootay in Australia and abroad, Candy Bowers is back in Melbourne with her Adidas smokin’ and this time she’s flying solo.
Who’s That Chik? is a razor-sharp, personal and political ride through the highs and lows, blocks and flows of growing up brown with an afro and big dreams in Australia. It is served up in Candy’s own hip hop comedy style – with plenty of sass, and a pinch of Lionel Richie to boot.
As the only brown girl in ballet class at Seena Bird Dance Academy, the only brown girl in drama class at NIDA then graduating into an industry of whiteness – this is the true story of Candy B, born to South African parents in North Dandenong.
In Who’s That Chik? Candy re-unites with her sister and long time musical collaborator Kim Bowers A.K.A Busty Beatz – the nastiest female beats producer in the Southern Hemisphere.
@ the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 30 Sept – 4 Oct
Pricing
$28 - $23
Preview on 29 Sept: All tickets $14Groups 6+ $20 per person
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