Gary O'Donnell interview

Bombers assistant coach Gary O'Donnell discusses the round one loss to Melbourne, and previews the Carlton match.

Click to see the interview

Tribute To Paul Hester

Crowded House bass player Nick Seymour will join fellow Crowded House members Neil and Tim Finn at the Royal Albert Hall this week to pay tribute to their late drummer Paul Hester.

In a statement at the Finn Brothers website Neil says "It was with deepest sadness and shock that I learned yesterday of the passing away of one of my closest friends, Paul Hester."

"Nick Seymour will be joining Tim and me here in London today to share our grief. The Finn Brothers shows this week at the Royal Albert Hall will go ahead as we don't know what else to do at this time other than to be with those closest to us and Paul and to play music to remember him by."

Paul Hester took his own life in at Elsternwick Park in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton on Saturday. He was 46.

News reports today suggest Hester suffered from depression and had been seeing a therapist for the last 8 years.

Hester was the host of the Foxtel cable show Music Max Sessions. In November 2004, he compared a program featuring his former bandmates Tim and Neil Finn. The show featured Hester reuniting with the Finn's on drums and performing their Crowded House hit 'Weather With You'. It was the last time they played together.

R.I.P. Paul Hester

Former Split Enz/Crowded House drummer Paul Hester has taken his own life.

Hester, 46, the father of two young girls, failed to return from walking his two dogs, Stan and Rose, on Saturday night.
Police later found his body in Elsternwick park near his Melbourne home. They said there were no suspicious circumstances.

Peter Green, President of the Split Enz and Crowded House fanclubs broke the news to fans. "Everyone, sitting here in the office trying to figure out what to write, we are a bit messed up at the moment" his letter reads.
"Last night, our mate, and Crowded House drummer Paul Hester took his own life."

"Over the years Paul has swung the extremes of happiness and sadness, but none of us ever thought this would happen. He loved life too much, and it really seems like a bad dream that we hope we'll wake up from tomorrow."

"It doesn't seem real, but (sadly) it is."

Paul Newell Hester was born in Melbourne on January 8, 1959. His mother Ann was a jazz drummer.

Hester joined Split Enz in 1983 fresh from Deckchairs Overboard. He was recruited into the band with a reference from Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst. His first album with The Enz was 'Conflicting Emotions'. He played on the hits 'Message To My Girl' and 'Strait Old Line.

When Split Enz broke up one album later after 'See Ya Round', Hester stayed with singer/songwriter Neil Finn and together with bass player Nick Seymour, was a founding member of Crowded House.

Last night, the former Crowded House members said they were reeling from the tragedy.

Finn, who is currently on tour with his brother Tim is due to perform four live dates in London, but is considering returning home to Melbourne today to mourn his loss.
"I am devastated," Finn told The Daily Telegraph from London. "I have lost one of my best mates."

Hester recently played with Tarmac Adam, a band featuring his Crowded House band-mate Nick Seymour.
He also hosted The Music Max Sessions for Australia's cable music news channel Music Max.

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After first reading this horrible news, I turned on the Music Max channel and they have devoted the afternoon to The Music Max Sessions.

The first band that I saw was The Finn Brothers, and the first two songs I heard were- Won't Give In and Nothing Wrong With You. I thought that was apt.

Then Paul got on the drums to play one of my favorite Crowded House songs Weather With You. One of the lines in that song is "Everywhere you go, Always take the weather with you"

The weather today is beautiful, so Paul, I hope you did so.

'What not & so forth' is starting to get around.

Click here to see a Technorati search that someone in Canada did useing the word "Scientology"
Have a look at the 4th one down the list.

Also click here to see a Yahoo search done in America for the Hoodoo Guru's DVD. This time look at the 10th one down.

In the last six days W.N.&.S.F has had hits from Australia, USA, Canada, Malaysia, Philippines and Argentina.
It's amazing how many people are willing to read crap.

Gary's Glamour Boys.

Gary has requested that I put something from the H a w t h o r n Football Club up on here because he thinks I've got to much Essendon stuff.
So Gary, here you are. Three pictures of your boys. Click on them to make them larger images.

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Also, click here for a link to the Hawk's website.

Sheed's Predictions

Kevin Sheedy previews the 2005 AFL season, with his teams and players to watch.
For all you Non-Bombers fans, don't worry, it's not all about Essendon. It's about the league in general.

Watch the video.

Go Julio, You Need A Serveza.

Here is another little online game. This one is from Brad in North Carolina.

Play the game.

I'm So Thirsty.

Have a look at this for a bit of fun thanks to Anthony Ward.

Virtual Bartender

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Give her commands like "jump" and "dance" and then use your imagination from there.

Enjoy

SACRILEGE!

As you can tell from a previous post, I'm not a religous person. I think thats why I find this funny.
Good Friday is coming up soon. A lot of people regard that as a very important day, and they make the sacrifice of not eating meat on that day.
Also a lot of religions don't eat Pig at all. For whatever reason, they just don't eat it.

Having said all that. What is the Comedy Channel going to broardcast on Good Friday? Such a holy day.

All three installments of Porky's back to back!!!

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They're all going directly to hell.

Batteries Included (but where do you insert them)

A blow-up sex doll has sparked a bomb alert in a German post office after it started to vibrate inside a package awaiting delivery, police say.

"Workers were unsettled when it began vibrating and made strange noises," a spokesman for police in the eastern city of Chemnitz said on Wednesday. "They were worried the package might be a bomb."

Officers brought the sender to the scene and discovered the source of alarm was an electrical device inside a life-size female sex doll. The man told police he had wanted to return the doll because it kept turning itself on at the wrong moment.

Order was restored after the sender removed the doll's batteries so the defective product could be returned.

L. Ron Hubbard Can't Save Your Life.

I had a message on the answering machine when I got home from work this morning from The Public Relations Department of The Church of Scientology.
They invited me to a function and left a phone number to ring to get two tickets.
I'm not going unless I get to meet Kelly Preston or Nicole Kidman.
Anyway, according to the last census, My religion is on the record as being "Jedi"

Scott's Latest Quote

Scott is very proud of this latest quote.

"OK I'll get you some hand lotion and a mirror"

Just A Timely Reminder

BLUDGER: noun, a person who lives off the efforts of others; a person who does not pay his fair share or who does not make a fair contribution to a cost, enterprise, etc., a cadger; an idler, one who makes little effort.The verb to bludge (on), a back formation from bludger, has existed from the turn of the century.
The verb mirrors the various senses of the noun. There is a verbal noun and participial adjective dole bludging, but a verb to dole bludge has yet to make its presence felt.Throughout the history of the word, most bludgers appear to have been male and overweight.
The term bludgeress made a brief appearance in the first decade of this century—‘Latterly, bludgers, so the police say, are marrying bludgeresses’—but the term had the decency to cark it shortly thereafter.

Pete Put's Johnny on the Back Foot

Question Time, 10 March 2005

Peter drew an interesting admission from the Prime Minister when he asked him, in Question Time on 10 March, a question regarding the government's recently released Skills at work report on new apprenticeships.

Mr Garrett: Prime Minister, isn’t it a fact that, according to the Skills at work report, nearly half of all people who completed a new apprenticeship said their level of skill remained the same and that six per cent of people said they had ‘less skills’ than when they started?

Mr Howard: ... I think what that report shows is that there can be improvements ...

excerpt from House of Representatives Hansard, 10 March 2005

Jacko's Got A Gun

Charlie posted this back in 2003. But I think it's perfect for today :

Click here to play a little game

Lloyd Down as Bombers Lose Again

Winless this year but "It's only the Pre-Season"

In a major blow to the Bombers, spearhead Matthew Lloyd will miss the start of the AFL season, after breaking his arm during Essendon’s eleven-point loss to Geelong in Bendigo last night. It was a tight and competitive game of football, but it is the injury to spearhead Matthew Lloyd that will be the talking point of the match.

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William Shatner's Common People

Thanks to Pat from Yorktown Virginia In America, I'm able to put this song up for all to enjoy.
Pat was kind enough to host this song for me because I can't host it myself.
This a song by William Shatner and Joe Jackson, produced by the one and only Ben Folds.
Pat's Blog "Don't Fall Through The Stars"can be seen here.

You can enjoy this great song by clicking here.

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If you have dial-up internet, please be patient. I think it's worth it.

Newest Essendon Supporter

Against both his parents wishes, Josh is the newest bomber fan.

STOP, STOP, STOOOPPPP!!!

This is what happened on Saturday at Jason's work! It was on Channel 7 news for those of you who watch the news on a Saturday night.
A 25 year old girl pressed the accelerator instead of the brake!!! She hit a 54 year old man who was looking at the photos in the window and she pushed him through the window!
The guy had a huge gash all down his leg and Jase sat there with him with a towel pressed on it until the ambulance turned up. He ended up going to hospital and having an operation on his leg and came home today only because his wife is a nurse.
And Jasons PA who is a 19 year old guy was also taken to hospital with minor leg injuries. The car came through the window at such a speed that he was unable to get out of the way in time.

So it was a very eventful day for the Wilson Pride people on Saturday.

Click on thumbnail to view larger image.

It's ironic though, Because only two days before, I was in Frankston with Jason looking at the Real Estate windows on Nepean Hwy and he was saying how much he liked his windows!