Quote of the Week

"I am more determined than ever to fight to clear my name."
- Tony Veitch outside court after he was charged with 7 counts of assault.

Ummm, dude - you already admitted to beating her. Remember that?
Unless you plan on taking that back and find some magical spell to make EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE FORGET, then I don't know how you plan to clear your name.

Also, pretty funny that he claimed it was a one-off 'lashing out' (you know, when he made all those excuses about it being a very dark time for him and all that), yet he's been charged with another 6 counts of man on woman assault for incidents between 2002 and 2006.

Enjoy calling the inter-prison rugby tournaments, scumbag!

Where Has Logan Been?

On his couch.

Yes, Logan got a bit sick a couple of weeks ago. And by quite sick, I mean had no energy to go anywhere or do anything or walk or talk. So he spent a week or so lying on his couch watching Miami Viec and La Parka. Not at the same time, silly. But how awesome would it have been if La Parka was on Miami Vice? You don't care? You don't even know who La Parka is?

Don't say I never do anything for you.

Anyways, I'm feeling much better now - thanks for asking.

So much better, in fact, that I have been spending my evenings back at work on my music. Figured I need to resume the work I started 4 months ago and finally get all these songs done and over. Have laid down the drums on about 40 of them now, so that is good progress (I hope).

The problem is, I totally lack inspiration. So if anyone has any ideas or wants to get me some for Christmas, I would gladly appreciate it.

That said, I am actually alive and can now resume my life online.

Tales From NZ - The Land of Idiots

Looking at all this furore over Tony Veitch beating the stuffing out of his partner in 2006, I find one thing very interesting:

Namely, so many people think he is still a "great guy" and that this is no one's business. Furthermore, that he shouldn't be prosecuted because he paid her so much money and has said he is sorry.

I'm sorry, but what freekin' century is this country stuck in?!?! Have we all gone backwards and decided that hitting a woman is OK? How about knocking her to the ground and repeatedly kicking her with such force that she suffers broken vertebrae and head injuries - is that what a "great guy" does??? Or was it the fact that he gave her $100,000 to keep her mouth shut so he wouldn't lose her job? Yeah I guess that was pretty "great"

I am honestly sickened by the reaction by people of this country. On the radio the other night, countless women called in to say that people should just leave him alone and that if she didn't press charges then it must be OK. Yes, I'm sure that's why she didn't press charges - I wouldn't be at all afraid of someone who had just beaten me to the point where I had a broken back and couldn't walk.

The other common argument in his defence is 'If he was just an average guy not on TV then no one would care.'

WRONG! And on so many levels.

Firstly, if he were not on television it would still be reported by police and therefore public knowledge. And a court case that garners public attention, as such a violent crime would, is not going to be attractive to ANY employer.

Secondly, the fact is this guy IS on television every night (and the radio as well) and as such has the public image of his employers at stake. Would you hire Mike Tyson to present your sports news? No. And not just because his speech is mangled and less intelligent than an old man eating a box of marbles. You wouldn't hire him to do that job because it would make your station look completely bogus to have it fronted by a nut job that beats women.

And thirdly, if this was just an average guy from down the road you would all condemn him and expect him to be prosecuted. I hope.


And if it is indeed true that TVNZ knew about this incident long before the public, then someone needs to answer some questions over there too.

Maybe Tony Veitch can place a big rugby ball under his arm and the hell off my TV as well?

I'm Right! Now Get Lost

I had to laugh this morning...

Everytime I bash rugby, people tell me how much money it brings the country - despite the fact that 'the country' doesn't actually see that money, but the rugby clubs and and players with their ludicrous salaries do. Sure tourism can help, but I doubt many people come to New Zealand specifically to see the Canterbury Crusaders play against the Auckland Blues. If they do, then they need to be shot on entry to the country.

Anyways, despite all the claims about how profitable rugby is for our country, the NZRU released a report today stating that last year's Super (crappy) 14 lost them $10 million. Wow. Good to know those billions of dollars spent promoting the sport are worthwhile.

This renews my anger at the New Zealand government putting $20 million into the redevelopment of Eden Park for the Rugby World Cup. Oh yeah sure, you can all try and tell me just how much tourism the competition brings into the country - and I will always just tell you to go read how much tourism it brought to Australia in 2003. The answer? WAY under what they expected. In fact, their numbers actually dropped by 2% from the previous year. The Tourism Minister at the time tried to pretend that any increases they saw was a benefit of the World Cup, but last year even the Australian Rugby Union admitted that they lost money by hosting the cup there.

$20,000,000 is a lot of money that this country could use for something a whole lot better, especially at this time when we are looking more and more like a third-world country every day. I keep waiting to see a World Vision ad with that big grey hairy dude, and he goes up to some little kid and says "This is Tania - say 'Hi', Tania' "Hi" ' Tania lives in Wainoni with her Parents, her Grand-parents, her cousins and her next door neighbours. They stay inside all day because they can't afford to use the car, and they don't use the lights because they can't afford to pay for the electricity. They had to sell all their furniture so they could buy fruit and vegetables last week"

Seriously though, why do my taxes have to go towards a game I hate just because some people wanted to make a living doing something stupid and are now finding that it doesn't make money? Curses to you, rugby and your year long season of doom!

I hope they keep losing more and more money. Take your incompetent business abilites and get the hell out of my life!

You Wanted a Post?

So, Louise has requested I make a new post. Fair enough, as I haven't done anything of note on here in about 4 years...

The problem is I have nothing to blog about. I spend most of my time never reading anything of interest - other than the continuing troubles of Zimbabwe - and can never seem to find the energy or steely determination it requires to write a blog worthy of my award winning* blog site.

Of course, a short time ago, I did consider posting a review for Corduroy's album Dad Man Cat. Would you like to read that? I was also considering posting future album reviews on here too - just to solidify my status as a music geek. If that would meet your approval, then please let me know.

As you can tell, I have a serious lack of sources for humorous material at the moment (George Lucas and Paul McCartney haven't anything remotely annoying lately. Bastards). And I don't like it when this blog isn't funny. I can't even think of something witty to put in this particular blog! So with all creativity lost, I decided to head to the newspaper...

Turns out Bill Gates is retiring in 2 days. I had no idea - I guess he must have taken me buying a Mac pretty hard. Sorry, Bill, don't take it personal; it's not that I completely hate your company for trying to monopolise the computer industry while continuing to give customers the same bug-infested crappy software every year, resulting in the development of the worst operating system possible and office applications that are basically the same as they were 10 years ago except the buttons are round and there are now probably 2000 more security issues, and Hotmail is totally pants, and Internet Explorer is slow and just begs undesirable internet surfers to send you viruses. Pfish, not even.

Enjoy your retirement, Bill. You have enough money to not be bored for the both of us.


Does that even make sense???


I guess it is true what they say; an Apple a day keeps Bill Gates away.


*Logman vs The Human Race won the Academy award for "Best Performance by a Blog in a Supporting Role" and a Grammy award for "Best Music Geekdom" which was subsequently returned because we here at Logman vs The Human Race think the Grammy awards are about as fantastic as eating deep-fried shoes. And I'm not talking about good shoes - I mean a pair of cruddy old B-52s that some snot-nosed little kid has been wearing to school all year. Even on mufti days. What a clown. I hope all the other kids made fun of him.

Sometimes It's NOT Worth the Trouble

I just wrote a big long blog. And for some reason stupid blogger only saved half of it. Bastards

Nazi's Should At Least Be Consistent

With the recent threat of power shortages and all that malarkey, our forest tech guy in the office has started getting on his high horse about our power consumption - as in, when he leaves he turns off the light in other people's offices if they are out, telling people off when they leave something on, etc. I don't have any problem with this - I am a firm believer in environmental awareness (as well as other forms of mental awareness). But what I find most entertaining is this:

When he goes home every night, he refuses to turn off his TWO 22 inch wide screen monitors.

Needless to say, I chuckle quite a bit every night. It's like dude, you are getting annoyed because someone leaves on a 60 watt light bulb, yet you can't turn off the biggest power suckers in your office? Not like turning them means you can't turn them back on in the morning.

And now all I'm thinking about it is the classic Alan Partridge line: "Needles to say... I took drugs"*

I hate it when a funny moment of a TV show completely takes precedent over something to the point where the mention of one word or line will be associated with that funny TV show moment for the rest of your life. What's worse, is how my flatmate can basically twist anything I say into a conversation from Corner Gas. She really needs to get out more.

This from a guy who has based all his love and relationship advice on what he has learnt watching Felicity.

But it works, dammit.
Next time you have relationship troubles, come to Dr. LogLove and test his Felicity theory for yourself. Comes with a 60 day money back guarantee



*for those who don't know, that line is when Alan and another woman are on a talk show discussing their auto-biographies; hers documenting her drug addiction, and his following his complete failure in life. When she comments that all his anecdotes end with "Needless to say, I had the last laugh" he tries to come back with "Your book could have said 'Needles to say... I took drugs'". Not quite as funny as the whole "I forgot - you're not Bono" line, or "Fe-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an ungrateful bunch of bastards!" but still, quality television