I had been sent the link several times – and then follow up links, saying that the whole thing is a fake and that this kid is a fraud

I’m not sure I believe that

But, fake or not, I know there are kids out there that ARE going through this

And knowing that, is heartbreaking

I choose to believe this kid is the real deal

And braver than he knows

Ho came to our show on Friday night in Albany Creek

He’d first seen Dad more than 25 years ago

At a show in Western Australia

Back then, Ho couldn’t speak ANY English

He told us that he learnt his first words of English, by listening to Dad’s cassettes

So it should come as no surprise to anyone that Ho’s first words were

Fuck, fuck and fuck

He would put most Australians to shame in the swearing department

Dude’s got a gift for filthy language

Ho Ho Fucking Ho!

I’d never been here before, and the venue is pretty flash

Peeps at the show were drinking, loud and ready to sing

Just the way we like ‘em

This is my new friend

One of us is wearing a corset

And one of us is trying to stop the wee from running down her leg

When I worked with different crew

I learned that, once you’ve worked with great people

It’s so fucking frustrating hard to work with incompetent arseholes who make me all stabby anything less than that

On the Sydney tour, Daz, who is the lighting technician and all-round Mr Get-it-done

Celebrated working with Dad for 10 years

Only Mum & Anne have survived lasted longer

Daz is a Kiwi and flies in from New Zealand for every tour Dad does

I learned from him how the job is supposed to be done

Dad reckons he learned from him the difference between a Kiwi and a cunt

A cunt would never go to a party and make a Kiwi of itself

Love ya Daz

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Sold out, amazing crowds

We also got to catch up with some great mates

You remember Tom?

If you’re not  familiar with his story

You can read about him here

Before his wife Kylie passed away

She had been promising to take her younger brother to one of our shows

But he had to wait until he turned 18

Kirrin, who looks so much like Kylie, turned 18 just before his big sister died

So he never got the chance to see a show with her

But Tom made sure his little brother-in-law didn’t miss out

The boys had special t-shirts (dedicated to Kylie) made up just for the night

Instead of coming with a big group of mates

They opted to just come to the show together

And brought along photos from every time we’d all caught up in the past

There were some laughs and a few tears

Dad and I made sure we did Kylie’s favourite songs in the show

‘Cause we know she was there somewhere

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You do it by pressing your nose and forehead (at the same time) to another person’s

It’s used at traditional meetings among Māori people and on major ceremonies

A hongi is kind of like a formal handshake in modern western culture

And sometimes you do a hongi and a handshake together

In the hongi the ha, or breath of life, is exchanged and intermingled

This is Dad with one of our security boys here in NZ, Malcolm

It’s pretty special, when one of the locals choose to greet or say goodbye to you with a hongi

More proof that the Kiwis sure do love Dad

I think I should totally leave him here

As a gift, for the people

You can thank me later MUM New Zealand

A great friend of Dad’s did Diamond & I the honor of presiding over our Aussie wedding ceremony

It was our second wedding as we’d done it a few days earlier in Chicago

Round two

We were old pros at this stage

But it was his first time

See Greg, Dad’s friend, had gone & gotten himself ordained online

JUST so he could be the officiant at our wedding

To make sure it worked, Dad & I went and got ourselves ordained too

(Keep us in mind if you want a  wedding, funeral or christening to be fucked up fun & different!)

Anyhoo

It was Greg’s first time

And our first time meeting him

For those of you that don’t know Greg

He is Greg Evans, of the hugely popular Australian TV show Perfect Match from the 80′s & 90′s

Diamond & I had no idea he was performing our ceremony

Dad had wanted it to be a suprise

And Diamond & I had no clue what was up until the theme music from Perfect Match started playing

And we met Greg for the first time

The best way to describe it?

Fucking funny

But not just that

It was really special

Can you have a romantic moment, that’s also hilarious?

I think we did

Greg did such an awesome job on our big day

That now days, along with his radio gig on 3MP in Melbourne

He’s also highly sought after to preside over people’s wedding ceremonies

How cool is that?

And even cooler?

We got to catch up with Greg tonight at the show in Mooroopna

He’s a very special man

That now gets to be a big part of so many people’s special day

Perfect match indeed.

Since then I’ve seen pop up on quite a few other blogs

I wanted to post it here too

Because I support this

And I don’t understand why two people who want to get married can’t

I try to imagine back when Diamond and I fell in love

And the amazing memory I have of the day he asked me to marry him

Doesn’t everyone deserve to have that memory?

To those who don’t agree

Why does it bother you?

How does it affect your life if 2 people who happen to have the same genitals, get married?

It shouldn’t

No more than if they live together

Forever

What’s the big fucking difference?

I can’t wait for the day when people like Derence & Ed don’t have to plead their case

Or ask permission

To do what the rest of us can do whenever we like

To whomever we like

As many times as we like

I wish these guys every happiness and hope so much they get to get married

And not just because they are probably the cutest couple I’ve ever seen

How they make me sad

And how they make me mad

Then I saw a story on the news a little while ago

About a boy who was set upon by a group of boys

Teased, bullied and beaten

And the arsewipes that beat up this 13 year old kid

Made a home movie of the attack

Genius

Because of their movie, they were caught

So, while they are now publicly recognised for being the fucktards they truly are

Their victim, Nadin

Has proven himself to be the real man in all of this

Who’s sorry now?

And for those of you who haven’t seen it

What better day to share it with you than Australia Day

SAS Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith says he is extremely humbled to receive the Victoria Cross for gallantry but he has urged Australians to always remember the digger heroes who have died fighting in Afghanistan.

The 32-year-old was awarded Australia’s highest military honour by Governor-General Quentin Bryce at a special ceremony in Perth on Sunday.

Also present at the Campbell Barracks for the ceremony were Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Defence Force Chief Angus Houston.

Cpl Roberts-Smith was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia for conspicuous gallantry shown when taking on Taliban machine gun positions near the village of Tizak in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province on June 11 last year.

After the ceremony, the father of two-month-old twin girls, told reporters he was “extremely humbled” by the award but every member of his unit showed gallantry on the day and they too would be recognised with honours.

He also urged Australians to remember the digger “heroes” who did not come back alive from Afghanistan.

“These are the guys who put their hands up willingly and they didn’t come back.

“They are our mates and their families live with that every day,” Cpl Roberts-Smith said.

“So I will really urge the public to remember they are the heroes, they are the ones who gave the ultimate sacrifice.”

Cpl Roberts-Smith said that in the middle of intense fighting there wasn’t time to think and a soldier’s training kicked in.

“I just looked across and saw my mates getting ripped up.

“I just decided to move forward because I wasn’t going to sit there and do nothing. I thought I’d have a crack, not to let my mates down.”

He then single handedly assaulted two Taliban machine gun positions and took them out.

“We won and we hurt the insurgency. I’m very proud to be part of that,” Cpl Roberts-Smith said.

“I think for everyone there, including myself what’s going through your mind is you just won’t let your mates down.

“You just go as hard as you can.”

He said he could not do his job if he did not have the support of his wife and the rest of his family “and they do support me 100 per cent”.

“I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in.

“I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia,” Cpl Roberts-Smith said.

“I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.”

Cpl Roberts-Smith said he was ready to serve on the front line again if deployed.

Praise from PM

Australia’s newest Victoria Cross recipient is a humble family man who prefers to stay out of the spotlight, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

Ms Gillard spent some time with the family last week and saw that the war hero was a dedicated husband and father.

“Ben is actually a very humble man, reluctant to be the centre of so much fuss and attention,” she said.

“(He is) keen to also remind of the bravery of the mates that he fought alongside and also a man determined to keep his family in his protective and loving embrace.”

Ms Gillard said Cpl Roberts-Smith was one of the greatest living Australians.

“Exhibiting those characteristics: humility, mateship, love of family, Ben is clearly one of us,” she said.

“But Ben is also different from us … because he will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

“And though it might have easily cost him his life he was fully prepared to give it.”

Happy Australia Day!

Aaaaaaand…

Happy 91st birthday Nanna!

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(*story from perthnow.com)