EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PIPI

Exclusive to The Rantings of a Madman, interview with Pipi, lead performer of Pipi's Pretzels


BSJ-Rom: Pipi, thank you for your Eurovision appearance and
performance as part of Pipi's Pretzels.

Pipi: You're welcome. It is such pleasure to perform to my fans.

BSJ-Rom: I would like to get a little background on you and who you really are
inside.
First, I have heard rumours that you used the same surgeon as Princess
Mary in Denmark, could you describe her procedure?

P: Ya well it is a very secretive procedure, you know? It was very
painful part of life for me and I don't wish to speak too much about. I
am sure Mary feels the same way. It can be described as you Ozzees like
to say "the full kit kapoodle"? Ya?

BSJ-Rom: I understand that you may not wish to talk about your own
complicated medical history, but I can't help but ask, did it hurt?

P: Ya, I must correct you there. I don't really like to say I have
complicated medical history. I have always been woman in my mind and
being born as man was only a minor hiccup in my life. Now I can
concentrate on being truely woman...(long pause) but ya...it did hurt. I
could not sit down for many weeks.

BSJ-Rom: This really cuts to the heart of who you are as a person.
Now, the song you performed, when did you realise that Europe loves Pipi?

P: When I moved from Budapest to Soho in London... I was loved... many
times there. It was about that time I realise that Europe is in love with
me. That is what "True Fantasy" is all about ya?

BSJ-Rom:Why do they love you so?

P: Because of the music I bring to people's heart. I am single-handedly
responsible for overthrowing communism in Hungary. Quite big achievement
ya? Also my clothes...I am quite loved as fashion experimentalist around
the big euro cities.

BSJ-Rom: Do you someday hope that being a gender reassigned person will one
day be the norm?

P: Ya well it is now quite normal in Europe. I notice Ozzees... quite
primitive when it comes to accepting these things. I am planning to start
a Pipi political party here in Hobart to make people more aware of these
issues. It is my dream one day to have an entire country - a Pipitopia,
if you will, where temporary-man women can live without prejudice.

Future

He rides away. He never stays. I ask him where he's going. Over the hills, over the painted background. You don't need me, he tells me. You don't need me when I'm gone. Sure, I'm useful when I'm here, but even then, even then... His voice trailed off. I wondered, why was his empowering speech so disempowering? Why did it make me feel like a child again. I again began to crave that attention, that feeling where I was giving him meaning. He wouldn't do it. Perhaps, perhaps he was more frightened than me. Perhaps he was scared of those hot cloudless days, those frozen nights and those endless red plains. He was scared of the wild camels that had overrun his yard, the brumbies that could not be tamed. He was scared of leaving me unprepared.

Coming soon....

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PIPI

Belt

I now have my belt back from Pipi...

My trousers are now staying up.

hmmm

I never thought I'd feel guilty about studying... but here I am studying stress, feeling guilty because I have so many other things hanging over my head.

I've had better feelings.

Random Sentences and Other Fragments

I get the impression that not many people care about my union rants... oh well.

But how the expletive did Serbia win?

Ukraine all the way.

Hungary for 2008...

More Union Rant

Several ironies I have found with the union.

First, they let me write an article about having a voice and then they don't publish me when I actually have something to say.

Second, in my recent dealings with the Tasmanian Greens, Gunns, the ABC and the Union, the only people to get back to me were the ABC - and Gunns. I put the Tasmanian Greens on the same level as peddlers of propaganda because, well, they ignore me. When I wrote to Gunns, they wrote back to tell me that they had, in fact, made a mistake and fixed it up. Still waiting for the Greens to do that. Still waiting for the union to answer my accusations (cf hippy nazi insurrection or whatever I called it)...

Eurovision Party

ANNOUNCEMENT

Eurovision party at Jolly's. Come with clothes other than what you would normally wear so as to not ostracise Pipi.

PIPI will be there. Calling all Pipi fans, come one, come all.

Bring some nibbles and drinks if you feel up to it.

Eurovision

This has nothing on Pryderi's post, but hey, that's ok, cos I love Eurovision.


Everyone vote for PiPi next year!

Last year's highlight was "We are the winners."

Another interesting fact (pilfered straight from the website was that Morocco performed unsuccessfully in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980.

Some weird stuff this year though...
But the German hope looks classy...

White seems to be in this year.

Work Update

My stress assignment is done - it's very sexy - but only cos it's so scantily clad. A bit light on in the quality stakes, but it does have pretty pictures and was relatively succinct.

My robotics assignment is done - one week early.

One of my parts to the second enviro assignments is also pretty much done. The next bit of that is going to be a nasty bugger.

Got to resubmit my first enviro assignment for remarking - the accuracy of the initial attempt at marking it has been called into question. Since when does one attack statements in a conclusion when you have presented an argument pages before?

I have more robotics assignments to start and finish now too.

It's also getting to the time of year when I should start learning stuff.

And do some work for honours.

There's a fluids assignment that I have a bit to do with too.

If I graduate at the end of the year, I'll really feel that I've earned it - irrespective of whether I know anything about mechanical engineering.

I'm Going to be Working

I'm meant to be working so I go and check out the blogs... my enviro assignment is not getting done. Funny that. Highly amusing. But the bottom line is we should have a pulp mill but Gunns shouldn't be running it, based on what I've heard.

So I shall do some work. I should also run. Which reminds me, Lauderdale beat Clarence last night in a thriller. The crowd, which was sizeable, went nuts. It would have been fantastic if the crowd were a little less redneck, but still there was a great vibe.

On the topic of footy, I intend to request a heritage round while I still have long hair. I would umpire in a headband and those ridiculous shorts that they wore in the seventies. The thought, while disturbing, still brings an evil smirk to my face.

And I have a stress assignment due Wednesday that a lot of work needs to go into between now and then. A couple of very late nights...

What sort of people do they think they are, calling a subject "Stress"? We look at all sorts of stuff - infinite stress, stress concentrations and stuff. Not a huge fan of that subject - but it is quite well taught...

Gutless Union

I wrote an article for Tog and it didn't get published. Have a read to find out why...


The Hippy-Nazi Insurrection

Senator Abetz, shame on you. The VSU legislation that you so ardently supported has directly resulted in untold amounts of greenhouse gases being cast off into the atmosphere. The hot air from our union must have contributed at least a couple of degrees to the global warming phenomenon.

This is all rather ironic, as the union is being run by a bunch of hippy-nazis, for whom global warming is a most serious issue.

Global warming aside, the evidence that the union is being run by hippy-nazis is overwhelming. Charging an extra 40c for gravy on chips at the refectory could only be the result of hippy-nazis or capitalist pigs. However, only hippy-nazis would leave the refectory microwave in such a filthy state, reminiscent of post-war Iraq. While on the topic of Union microwaves, there were two microwaves available for student use, now there is but one. Who is responsible? Is it the VSU or is it the hippy-nazi run Union? Perhaps that microwave was sold to raise capital and to save on electrical costs that would have been paid for by a compulsory student union.

Further evidence of hippy-nazism infiltrating TUU ranks was during the Engineering Society’s St Pat’s day barrel. What sort of Orwellian power do they think they are? Banning the sale of dollar beers… irrespective of serving size. This completely undermines the Union propaganda. A society being told to raise the price of beverages demonstrates… well I’m struggling to put a finger on exactly what it demonstrates. Hippy-nazis.

The plot thickens. The Goebel’s of the TUU found it appropriate to bemoan the fact that the Union concert cost fifteen dollars per head rather than being free. The evil Abetz failed to retort that students are now saving $132-$15, so a saving of $117 per semester, assuming that they actually went to the concert.

So where was the money going? To societies. Sure. They’re spitting chips at missing out on all the cash, but the Engi society still managed to get their wrist slapped for selling dollar beers.

More importantly, the money went to essential services like student housing, counselling services and representation. Where are these services now? Do they not still exist? Who funds them now?

Perhaps the hippy-nazis need to take some lessons from their capitalist pig cousins. Existing in a monopoly market, how can the combination of the Uni Bar, Lazenby’s, the Refectory, the Co-op Bookshop, the Post office, the travel agent, the doctor’s surgery, the newsagent, the bank, the law café and all the other cafes that are about campus run and not make a significant profit? Not saying that the union owns all of these franchises, but the union must be making some sort of handy cash from, for example, the CBA presence in the Tasmanian University Union building.

Yet these bars, cafes and food outlets hardly provide cheap food. They provide goods at market price or higher. The hippy-nazis are stealing from the poor and giving to the… actually, it is quite unclear to whom they are passing on our hard earned pennies. Perhaps the management is just incompetent. Perhaps not.

When it is all said and done, it all comes back to the Australian Liberal Party and their VSU legislation. The implications are horrific; global warming, under-funded societies, the war on terror, AWB and bloody Brian Bourke (you thought he was a labour man) are all products of this horrific legislation.



I guess it makes sense not to publish.

And the microwave is back (and filthy) but sour cream is now 40c too.