On my brother getting married

My little brother is getting married. Well, Civil Unioned. He is marrying a brit so they have the option open to them. I think it’s a beautiful thing. I wasn’t all for gay marriage at first (of course I believed we should have the same rights under the law as straight couples) and we should have the chance at divorce too. But I never thought it would be something that I would feel very emotional about, since it’s such a load of crap.

I have never seen a more baseless argument for preventing a minority from accessing equal rights than the gay marriage debate. We’re told that you can’t have gay marriage because it will undermine the sacred institution of marriage. What is that? So sacred that marriage and divorce rates are equal, so sacred that it can happen because a woman is pregnant, so sacred that more planning goes into the wedding than into the couple having a life together.

To be honest, if you want marriage to be more sacred ban divorce, or prevent straight people marrying (if history is anything to go by). I think if Liza Minelli can marry a gay man, I should be able to as well.

So I’m all for gay marriage now and I’m all for the emotion behind it. I like the idea of a couple (any couple) publicly saying to the world “This is person I love. I’m going to commit, in public, to building a life with them”. That in essence is what marriage should be, and no human being on the planet should be denied that sentiment.

On going to Priscilla Queen of the Desert

My family came down from up north to see Priscilla… I wasn’t going to go because it’s just too gay. But at the last minute, mother had purchased another ticket and there I was.

One of my friends works at a make up artist for the show and I didn’t realise that another friend was actually in the show.

It was pretty brilliant to be honest. Then one of my mum’s friends was in the audience, she works for channel 10 and was escorting Nigel Lythgoe and Bonnie Lythgoe from So You Think You Can Dance. Pictured…

During half time, I was having a chat to Bonnie and Nigel. The only intelligent thing I could think of to say was “Gee, I wish we had presented gay marriage like that [like the musical], we might have got it”. Bonnie went on to give me her sympathies about how it had been handled in the US. Amen sister.

All in all, a great show. It didn’t make me want to be on stage again, like these things tend to do, but it did make me want to date a dancer.

J.

On getting in trouble at work…again

Cast your mind back to the dark ages, when girls attending school would have to measure the distance from the floor to the hem of their skirt. Or even further back when a glimpse of stockin’ was looked on as something shockin’. Or the flash on an ankle could produce civil war. Well I ask you, have we really come that far?

Today, I wore what I considered to be a professional outfit to our mufty day at work. I had a collared shirt (tucked in), a nice belt, shoes and canvas shorts in white. Apparently though, we have a dress code. A code that prevents the wearing of shorts. What is on the list though of acceptable items are skirts, pants, t-shirts and so on.

Of course my direct boss was quite supportive, she said how silly it was that a woman can walk around with the fabric equivalent of a hanky covering her legs, a guy can be wearing a t-shirt and jeans and looking like the sleepy end of Field Day and meanwhile I got comments.

Since I’m not quite out of my probation period yet, I’m keeping quiet about the whole thing. As quiet as I can possibly be. So that involved telling them I was sexist and asking if next mufty it would be ok if I wore a skirt (as per the guidelines) and that I didn’t think the sky would fall if a customer did see my knee.

As usual, I’m tired. So maybe I’m overreacting. I’m also itchy. I better go. I’m right, right?

On why I can’t stand corporate crime

So I’ve been watching re-runs of Michael Moore’s ‘The Awful Truth’. Love it so much. Such a brave show, such a clever way to present it. I compare it with the tutting shake-your-head shame files that shows like ACA and Today Tonight present, as if they should even be compared when they’re covering issues of such zero value. And they have no bravery.

It was actually a dream of mine to work on a show like ‘The Awful Truth’ and you wonder how something like that starts.

It has certainly done this. I cannot be silent when something is clearly wrong. I would rather be unemployed than work for a morally bankrupt organisation. And, I think it’s up to people who work in social media and online marketing to use what skills they have to be Mini Moore’s where they can.

Anyhoo…

We’re approaching Christmas and I’m going to be writing an email to the company asking them to give money to charity. As one of the lowest paid people there, I know I can afford $20 to take a tag off a tree and buy a present for a kid who probably isn’t going to get much else. If people don’t embrace it, I’m going to be mad at them. But of course, everyone is so sensitive there so I can’t guilt people into it because it will be “inappropriate” a word now used to justify an unsustainable or logical position on something.

I’m working on the right words in my head and I’m going to start writing it tomorrow. One thing I do believe about language is that is has the ability to hit the right note. You can always find the right words, I think they’re floating around in the space that holds every idea every had and you just have to reach up and grab them.

Let the grab begin!

On the tote bag that never was

I’m really happy it went the other way. Shame though, I have 20,000 of these sitting in a rent-a-shed. Great stocking stuffers I guess…wait, great stockings!

Brilliant.

The John McCain Tote

Meanwhile, I attended a conference today. It was run by a Harvard Professor of Marketing. Very smart…old man. He talked a lot about stuff I already believed to be true about marketing today being completely customer centric. It has to be. Not sure? Ask your customers. It was interesting too how he talked about marketing working better with sales. The sales people in the room all went “yeah, marketing need to work with us”, all the marketing people were “yeah, sales need to support our initiatives”. I think it was at that point the good professor gave up and re-focused our attention.

He wasn’t getting ‘into it’. Amen sister.

On public transport

Yesterday I was on the train and this guy sat down next to me. He stank. I don’t know why I did this, but the turned the volume on my iPOD up in response to the smell. I think it helped.

On rednecks with money

Dumb political parties, products that release GBH through the plastic in the glue, Crocs and the name of this company (pictured). All reasons why dumb people should be kept away from enough money to be dangerous. Still, made me laugh.

I came up with a really good EDM today, it was funny and would have grabbed the attention of the readers so that they distracted their minds for long enough that something worth while got in. Apparently, the concept is too “risky” for the company. It was to advertise our mobile rates.

This is what I did…

If you know what the G-20 summit is,
please phone the U.S. for just 22c a minute

Then it went on to talk about the deals. Meh…

Lucky I have a blog.