Sunday, November 14, 2010

And the award for the worst ARIA Awards telecast goes to ...


The somebody at Channel Ten whose job it is to check online copyright breaches must have been particularly proud of themselves to have discovered the following post on the Pedestrian TV website.
They've removed all four videos containing some of the biggest trainwreck moments from the 2010 ARIA Awards televised on Channel Ten last week, live from the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
With the following statement plastered across the video windows ... 'This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Network Ten' ... the somebody probably thinks they got to the website just in time to save the embarrassment caused by 'presenters' such as Jessica Mauboy making a monumental de-butt of herself, Angus and Julia Stoned, er, Stone, and Bob Mad-As-A-Katter still trying to solve the mystery surrounding ARARIA Chamberlain.
But in actual fact, nothing can save the TV Network from the aftershocks of harm the 2010 ARIA Awards caused, after initially making the music-loving Aussie public quake in their boots to Ten on the Crapter Scale
So if you missed the cringe-worthy telecast on the night of November 8 - let's face it, even I was having a life that night and doing something else (I'd like to thank GOD for that in retrospect of how awful the show was)- click on the link below to see what I mean.
Well, actually thanks to the somebody at Channel Ten, you won't see it at all - but you can read one the best ARIA Awards reviews ever penned on the Pedestrian TV website that's undoubtedly much more entertaining than the ARIA Awards ever were!2010 TRAINWRECK ARIAS RECAP
And thanks to my sleuthful friends on Facebook, here's a site that still does have a video to show you what all the fuss was about - prepare to laugh hard and think WTF? all at the same time ... ARIA AWARDS 2010 MOST AWKWARD MOMENTS

As to what I've been up to this week, well there's a cute photo of a dog climbing a ladder whilst wearing a toy tool belt with his construction worker master in That's Life magazine out now (see this week's cover above), or for something completely different, a piece in the same issue I wrote on a Brisbane nurse who flew to the Congo to help Aussie doctors operate on the poor Congolese women left to suffer with no other medical care - and soon learnt that whistling in the operating room was not advisable considering the Congolese custom was to stone women to death who dared to whistle.
By the way, the hospital was newly built because a lava flow from a still-active volcano had just burnt the previous one to the ground.
Fun place for a holiday? Hmmmm, even a coup in Fiji sounds friendlier!