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July 18
Bree Maddox watch - Part 2749
Update: It seems PerthNow’s GirlBoyBlog are using Bree’s breasts as their promotional logo! Wow. —>
That gag reflex picture of Bree Maddox sparked a fair amount of conversation this week. Namely, this blog post on PerthNow.
Should there come a point in your life where you should cover your “assets” up and start dressing more conservatively?
At first glance the post doesn’t actually mention Bree Maddox, then BANG name drops in the last few paragraphs, along with… HOLY BEJESUS A HIGH RESOLUTION VERSION OF THE PHOTO. Like all blogs run by massive old-media corporations the post offers no real insight, but there are some entertaining comments from readers.
When asking for those comments PerthNow’s Girlblogger chimes in “please don’t be biased this is about what she wears only. Try not to be offensive I don’t think she’d appreciate it. Cheers”. Despite the warning, PerthNow dosen’t seem to have anyone moderating reader comments:
I wish she would just go away and stop trying so hard to be a society girl. The papers should stop feeding her ego and calling her a socialite, she’s no more a socialite than I am, its a stupid self inflating term that has no substance, just like Bree. She’s just a tacky try hard who basically does not have what it takes to be attractive at all. No matter what she wears or what angle the photo takes her in, she is downright plain ugly. Still, what do you expect from a former Penthouse Pet! Go away Bree now and stay out of the papers!!!
Brianna of Western Suburbs
Wed 15 Jul 09 (01:41pm)
Harsh! Because I’m not a total asshole, here’s a photo of Bree looking quite nice actually.
June 18
Media bits
Queen of Tupperware and gatekeeper to Perth’s drag empire, Val Nourished, has arranged herself onto page 2 of today’s West Australian. She’s there to talk about storage containers and lap bands, which I guess are sort of the same thing.
Props to Matthew for nabbing this great publicity - page 2 is a real effort. No points for The West editors who seem to have mixed up their gender prepositions, calling Val Nourished a ‘he’. Hrm. I guess they don’t understand the concept. You can read the whole article here.
Extended shopping hours are up in Parliament this week, and the big retailers are being very vocal. Myer said they have no immediate plans should the extended hours be approved, which must be a major blow to gays bois Perth-wide. Myer have a great business opportunity staring them in the face: simply turn Myer Basement into a mini-club on Friday nights. Every gay boi in Perth is already there anyway, might as well get them to stay, drink alcohol and buy more clothes. Then again, I already have enough trouble trying to find S sized garments in there - damn gays have already raided them all!
Finally, going back to The West Australian: That certain gay bar owner recently featured in a very oversized article publicising her engagement. Uhhhh. No comment from me, but here’s a facebook status update that was brought to my attention:
———- loves that Bree Maddox is getting hitched while the gays who pay her way can’t.
June 18
Same sex marriage in western australia
A few events have pushed same sex marriage back onto the public agenda this week. Mainly, the Australian Marriage Equality association releasing survey results stating 60% of Australians favour same sex marriage. According to the survey, Gen Y’ers and Greens voters are most likely to support it… whaddaya know I happen to be both of those things.
Western Australia, always lackluster in progression, has the highest opposition to gay marriage in the country, with 40% either disagreeing or strongly disagreeing. Are we surprised? Tiffany Fox at The West Australian wrote a blog post about it today:
Equal recognition of same-sex relationships is long overdue. It seems crazy that WA allows gay couples to adopt children, but won’t allow them to get married.
I’m not going to go all politico ranty on you all because I’m sure you’re sick of it. Instead, I’m going to share this absolutely fantastic piece of information with you, taken from The West blog comments:
Craig Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I wonder how many of these anti-gay folk know that our state’s fauna emblem, the Black Swan, is well known for homosexual activity. It even extends to the point where two males swan form a lifelong pair and rogue females lay eggs in the pair’s nest for the males to raise.
How insulting to the human race that Black Swans are far more advanced in gay surrogacy than us!
June 15
Bree Maddox wears bra, pigs fly
Can’t believe I almost missed this news story from a few days ago. Court owner Bree Maddox has used her (media) pulling power to drum up attention for the Breast Cancer Foundation of WA and their Purple Bra Day. Plus she felt like a photoshoot and some free publicity for The Court.
“It’s something that we all need to be aware of, now that cancer is being diagnosed in younger and younger women,” Ms Maddox said.
It’s great that Bree Maddox is doing something for the gay community like that. So Bree, when is the next fundraiser for Pride WA? …. never? Blind bitchy jabs aside, it’s a good cause, so if you want to see The Court decked out in purple lingerie head along this Friday night. Of course if there are any ads put up for Adultshop Bree’s philanthropy is instantly disqualified.
Lets look at some quotes from the article:
Owner Bree Maddox and staff will be donning purple bras to encourage women to get their hands on their breasts.
Ummmm… don’t think you’ll be having any trouble with women at The Court putting their hands on each other’s breasts.
“It’s also a good opportunity for guys to wear a bra as a bit of fun and not get frowned upon.”
Ummmm… don’t think anyone will be frowning at guys at the court wearing bras either. Well, maybe if some annoying straight girls bring their bogan boyfriends along.
June 9
Media bits
The verdict is in: Gerardus Heijne has been found guilty of murdering his long term boyfriend early last year in their East Perth penthouse. For those who haven’t been following this local story, it could easily be woven into a made for TV movie: Gay lovers, rich entrepreneurs and founders of the Leonards chicken empire in WA hit rocky relationship waters, introduce money troubles into the picture, extravagant spending, a ‘bisexual’ teenage lover and a murderous climax ensures….
… well that’s the way The West Australian have painted it. In today’s paper they’ve included a sensationalised account of what went down, going right back to when the pair met at Connections in the 1980s. Have a read through, and just like I did, you can cringe every time they put quotation marks around the words “husband” and “marriage”.
Despite our murderous gay men it turns out Perth ain’t that bad - we’ve been ranked the fifth most liveable city on the planet. Glad to know our city is at least ‘liveable’. If you read further into the story it does feel like this survey was designed for middle class British families looking for the best place to emigrate to - no wonder Perth is so high up on the list.
In a recent ‘quality of life‘ survey Perth was ranked 21st. Will our liveability decrease as our desirability to poms increases? Omg, did I just go there?
June 6
foot. in my mouth.
One of the team at The Wire Magazine emailed me in response to my previous swipe at the mag. I have to eat some of my words because apparently all of the staff are in their 20’s to early 30’s, with some of them having recent ties with Perth’s street media.
The staffer also said it’s hard to make a magazine like The Wire when it’s wrapped in The West Australian, which I can appreciate. Must. hold back. urge. to criticise. The West….
I’m always more receptive when open lines of communication are drawn so I’m not going to write off The Wire just yet. If any of my readers ever catch me calling them “gayrage-heads”… please give me a slap.
Amusing observation: The Wire’s Facebook profile says they are a fan of UK shirtless rugby hunk Ben Cohen… wha?
June 5
Better late than never!
The May edition of WAX Magazine is now on the streets. Yes, I said May 
Don’t ask, but there was a delay of sorts. The important thing is you can now ogle over the scrumptious Phil Priest who is on the cover walking up some stairs in Kings Park. Wonder what’s on his iPod? Maybe he stores photos of himself naked on it! mmm.
My column is again joined by the infamous bathroom camwhore photo. I tell you that hairdryer in the background adds a touch of class!
Unfortunately due to the delays in getting the May edition out, we are skipping June. But we’re not going away, stay tuned.
June 4
Perth media bits
If you picked up Xpress or Drum Media today you would have seen RTRfm’s new station lineup for 2009/10. Very disappointing that ‘Open Closet’, the community radio’s gay and lesbian music and current affairs program has been shafted. It’s completely gone with no replacement. The changes coincide with the station getting a new General Manager - email Graeme Watson to tell him it should stay.
Today The West Australian properly launched their new competitor against Xpress and Drum Media: “The Wire Magazine“. Oh boy does it stink! You get to read everything that was in our free street press weeks ago, and pay the cost of a newspaper to do it.
The copy reeks of middle aged journos desperately trying to reach out for Gen Y, and is littered with embarrassing statements like “hey wire heads” and the Art Gallery’s Art Bar being described as “painfully cool”. To top it off, the opinion page is about how John Farnham is now ‘uncool’. Who cares!
The West really didn’t think this through: Gen Y don’t buy newspapers, and The Wire Magazine has no street cred. Avoid it.
June Out in Perth is on the streets this weekend.
June 4
Perth’s greatest asset
I must be really out of the loop because apparently Perth is home to the most popular user on Myspace Australia. That blabbering horse Louise Mombo (below) presented a story on A Current Affair last week. It was very entertaining*
When you just can’t be bothered trying to scope out all the fantastic indie music and art acts that come out of Perth, or quiet achievements like being the first city in Australia to adopt digital radio - you can always take solace in the fact we have the Aussie Myspace Queen. Hell… uh… yeah!… *cough*
Apparently this has already been covered all over Australian media for the last year, I never realised it because I abandoned myspace long ago, because it’s a hole. I just hope Perth doesn’t become known as the city that ‘whores it all out’. As the myspace queen said in the ACA story (actual word for word quote):
I want to be real online. Like. I don’t want anyone looking at me as some. Like. Object. Or something. Like. If a guy talks to me I know he wants to talk to me because of me, not because of the way I look or how I pose in my pictures. Probably.
I really want to not laugh…. I really do.
May 18
Kochie: if two people love each other does it really matter?
Did you watch Sunrise this morning?… Uh, you didn’t? Well I don’t blame you, the show does make me nauseous. This morning they took a break from discussing the potential cost savings of buying home brand toilet paper and decided to heat it up with a little gay marriage debate. Yes, you totally heard me correctly!
After stuttering their way through a run down of what’s happening with gay rights in the US they opened the floor to a Peter Furness, Australian Marriage Equality Convener who did a really good job of civilly explaining the reasoning behind the need for gay marriage rights in Australia. I was impressed because Sunrise didn’t just round up a gay rights nut job - the type who constantly screams ‘prejudice’ well after everyone’s stopped listening. Instead they round up a nut job for the opposing argument: some guy from the Australian Christian Lobby. Major lols ensured.
You can watch the whole segment here (10 minutes). Big round of applause for host David Koch who at one point totally shut down the Australian Christian Lobby panellist for implying that gay couples abuse their children. If you can’t be bothered watching the video here are some of the fantastic things we learnt from the Australian Christian Lobby today:
- If gays are given marriage rights in Australia, people will be able to demand the right to marry their cat
- Gays don’t believe in monogamy or longevity of relationships (he tells this to Peter who has been with his partner for 16 years)
- Preventing gays from getting married is the same principle as telling smokers they can’t smoke in no smoking areas… that um, totally makes sense… uh.
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