Fired Up

Greetings this morning from the smokey Blue Mountains.  There has been a combination of back burning and a small fire in the Grose Valley that has resulted in the entire mountains area being covered in smoke.  Walked out the front door and the hillside across the valley we sit in was covered in it and when I drove to the train station, in the lower parts of the drive, the smoke was across the road like fog.  At least they’re back burning and its not a real fire…

But what I am fired up this morning about is the ridiculous amount of coverage to the stupid Tom Cruise / Kate Holmes wedding.  Seriously, does it need to be the lead story with live crosses on Monday morning?  In my hungover state yesterday I awoke and Weekend Sunrise just wouldn’t shut up about it and had some “Social Commentator” from Dolly (yes, Dolly!) on the set being interviewed about the whole thing.  Social Commentator… how does one get that gig?  I consider myself a social commentator of a different bent… I’d perhaps commentate that “we should all shut up and forget about what rich people do with their oodles of cash as it does nothing but encourage them.”

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, poverty rife throughout the world, local issues being drought, interest rates and politicians calling each other pedophiles under the privileged of parliament and what do our news reporters give us?  Fucking TomKat.  Ridiculous.  Its about time that people grew up and realised that living your lives vicariously through celebrities isn’t important.  What is important are things closer to home and that we all should be mightily concerned that the weather is swing 10-15 degrees a day and that we can have snow and bushfires in a space of 24 hours. We should be worried about US foreign policy causing friction everywhere in the world and yet we blindly follow. We should be worried about these things instead of what Posh Spice wore to a wedding that was actually not legally binding between a washed up actor more concerned about his cult and an actress so B-Grade that I can’t recall her being in a movie…

/rant off