<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from matthayden.blog-city.com</title><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 matthayden.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:25:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from matthayden.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Leftie lounge lizards&apos; latest scaly scam</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/leftie_lounge_lizards_latest_scaly_scam.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/leftie_lounge_lizards_latest_scaly_scam.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=leftie%5Flounge%5Flizards%5Flatest%5Fscaly%5Fscam</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You may recall that earlier this year there was a bit of a stoush over a so-called &quot;superb parrot&quot;. Assorted lefties &#39;n&#39; luvvies believed that preserving some of the spoiled squawker&#39;s habitat was more important than a thousand]]></description><category>environment</category><category>rorts</category><category>scams</category><category>greens</category><category>reptiles</category><category>victoria</category></item><item><title>Perth, Australia&apos;s hoon capital</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/perth_australias_hoon_capital.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/perth_australias_hoon_capital.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=perth%5Faustralias%5Fhoon%5Fcapital</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Having returned repeatedly to Perth, Western Australia over the last two decades, I&#39;ve seen a lot of changes. The place practically doubled in population, became ethnically and culturally way more diverse, and is now far more aggressive and fast-]]></description><category>perth</category><category>western</category><category>australia</category><category>hoons</category><category>cars</category><category>law</category><category>order</category><category>culture</category><category>society</category><category>machismo</category></item><item><title>Rudd&apos;s apology a calculating act</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/rudds_apology_a_calculating_act.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/rudds_apology_a_calculating_act.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rudds%5Fapology%5Fa%5Fcalculating%5Fact</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Interesting that Rudd&#39;s apology to &quot;the forgotten Australians&quot; is described as &quot;emotional&quot;. I&#39;m sure heaps of people were sooking up in the crowd, but he sounded creepily cold as he always does. He always tries to give emo]]></description><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>apology</category><category>abuse</category><category>prime</category><category>minister</category><category>kevin</category><category>rudd</category></item><item><title>Val Kilmer&apos;s eco-themed thrillers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/val_kilmers_ecothemed_thrillers.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/val_kilmers_ecothemed_thrillers.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=val%5Fkilmers%5Fecothemed%5Fthrillers</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Was down at the local video store, having a squizz at all the flicks on the shelves. Saw a title that looked like a bit of a hoot called The Steam Experiment. It&#39;s about some nutty boffin who decides to show what we&#39;re all in for as the plane]]></description><category>val</category><category>kilmer</category><category>movies</category><category>cinema</category><category>thriller</category><category>horror</category><category>entertainment</category><category>global</category><category>warming</category><category>climate</category><category>change</category><category>dvd</category></item><item><title>Blogging nemesis returns!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/blogging_nemesis_returns.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/blogging_nemesis_returns.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=blogging%5Fnemesis%5Freturns</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just got some very disturbing news: My nemesis Derek Sapphire has returned to the internet and resumed blogging. Derek and I are enemies from way back, and we&#39;ve clashed many times before both online and off. When I started blogging, he quickly f]]></description><category>derek</category><category>sapphire</category><category>feuds</category><category>blogging</category><category>stalking</category><category>leftwing</category><category>culture</category><category>wars</category><category>gurus</category><category>hypocrites</category></item><item><title>Falcon Heene will be haunted by hoax</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/falcon_heene_will_be_haunted_by_hoax.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/falcon_heene_will_be_haunted_by_hoax.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=falcon%5Fheene%5Fwill%5Fbe%5Fhaunted%5Fby%5Fhoax</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While this couple who faked this balloon boy incident are obviously total pillocks who deserve to be punished for what they did, you&#39;ve really gotta feel sorry for them. I mean, imagine being that needy and insecure that you would even consider d]]></description><category>reality</category><category>television</category><category>media</category><category>fame</category><category>stardom</category><category>psychology</category><category>culture</category><category>society</category><category>abuse</category><category>hoaxes</category></item><item><title>Golliwogs now an endangered species</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/golliwogs_now_an_endangered_species.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/golliwogs_now_an_endangered_species.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=golliwogs%5Fnow%5Fan%5Fendangered%5Fspecies</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Hey Hey It&#39;s Saturday! blackface furore made paranoid shop owners move their golliwogs to the back shelves. Understandably, some think the reaction is unjustified. Store owner Diarne Revelle is quoted in the story above: &quot;Kids aren&#39;t]]></description><category>political</category><category>correctness</category><category>multiculturalism</category><category>golliwogs</category><category>toys</category><category>racism</category><category>culture</category><category>society</category><category>australia</category><category>uk</category></item><item><title>From Newtown to Leichhardt</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/from_newtown_to_leichardt.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/from_newtown_to_leichardt.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=from%5Fnewtown%5Fto%5Fleichardt</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Am in the process of relocating from Newtown to Leichardt. It&#39;s a helluva thing, moving. And it gets harder and harder the older you get. I&#39;m almost a quasi-codger, now, so it&#39;s not easy at all.&nbsp; And it&#39;s not just the physical ef]]></description><category>leichardt</category><category>newtown</category><category>sydney</category><category>nsw</category><category>lifestyle</category><category>accommodation</category></item><item><title>Right-wing street theatre in Sri Lanka</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/rightwing_street_theatre_in_sri_lanka.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/rightwing_street_theatre_in_sri_lanka.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rightwing%5Fstreet%5Ftheatre%5Fin%5Fsri%5Flanka</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Sri Lanka, street theatre will be used to warn people of the dangers of trying to enter Australia illegally by boat. Now that&#39;s gotta be a first! I mean, the medium was invented by dirty, smelly hippies with no talent to inflict their moronic]]></description><category>illegal</category><category>immigration</category><category>culture</category><category>wars</category><category>street</category><category>theatre</category><category>leftwing</category><category>rightwing</category><category>australia</category><category>sri</category><category>lanka</category></item><item><title>Sex, violence and reality TV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/sex_violence_and_reality_tv.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/sex_violence_and_reality_tv.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sex%5Fviolence%5Fand%5Freality%5Ftv</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s pretty obvious that reality TV shows don&#39;t exactly attract the creme de la creme of society. 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It&#39;s like a bloody straight-to-DVD thriller, with a touch of Agatha Christie thrown in. Barely audible tapes, political powerbrokers, dodgy development deals, notes naming potential killers,]]></description><category>sydney</category><category>crime</category><category>murder</category><category>corruption</category><category>media</category><category>journalism</category><category>law</category><category>order</category></item><item><title>Kylie and Dannii&apos;s double whammii</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/kylie_and_danniis_double_whammii.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/kylie_and_danniis_double_whammii.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kylie%5Fand%5Fdanniis%5Fdouble%5Fwhammii</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Singing sisters Kylie and Dannii Minogue are both currently in serious relationships, so they&#39;re intending to get married simultaneously.&nbsp;I think doubling up is a fine idea. They&#39;ll certainly save a heap of moolah by doing so, and that m]]></description><category>celebrity</category><category>entertainment</category><category>music</category><category>relationships</category><category>media</category><category>marriage</category><category>divorce</category></item><item><title>Chloe Traicos, filmmaker and actress</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/chloe_traicos_filmmaker_and_actress.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/chloe_traicos_filmmaker_and_actress.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chloe%5Ftraicos%5Ffilmmaker%5Fand%5Factress</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here&#39;s some info about Chloe Traicos, a dynamic young woman working in the Australian arts field. I first met Chloe via the comedy scene in Perth about nine years ago. She was only nineteen or twenty then, yet she immediately impressed me with he]]></description><category>cinema</category><category>film</category><category>zimbabwe</category><category>documentary</category></item><item><title>Reaching middle age</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/reaching_middle_age.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/reaching_middle_age.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=reaching%5Fmiddle%5Fage</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Looking through my blog stats, I recently realized that this blog is now middle aged. I&#39;ve racked up just over 1000 posts, which is half of what I get from this host and plan (which is excellent, by the way). 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Kind of ironic, since that city has more than its fair share of criminal rock apes running free.&nbsp;]]></description><category>perth</category><category>western</category><category>australia</category><category>crime</category><category>law</category><category>order</category><category>odd</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Nice work if you can&apos;t get it</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/nice_work_if_you_cant_get_it.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/nice_work_if_you_cant_get_it.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nice%5Fwork%5Fif%5Fyou%5Fcant%5Fget%5Fit</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We all despise &quot;dole bludgers&quot; who sit around on their fat arses doing sweet far call, having all their needs met by the state. 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See, Australian film-makers don&#39;t make mo]]></description><category>australia</category><category>cinema</category><category>culture</category><category>entertainment</category><category>movies</category><category>political</category><category>correctness</category></item><item><title>Lohan does a Neal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://matthayden.blog-city.com/lohan_does_a_neal.htm</guid><link>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/lohan_does_a_neal.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://matthayden.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lohan%5Fdoes%5Fa%5Fneal</comments><dc:creator>Matt Hayden</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan left her Blackberry in some deli, and when the owner quite reasonably demanded that she show proof of ownership before he handed it back she went completely spacko. 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