Much talk about whether to boo Chris Judd tonight. I am really surprised at the amount of angst amongst fellow Eagle supporters about whether they should boo or not.

These guys are cattle. You could be the most loyal player of a club but if they choose to trade you or dump you, they do so. How many loyal servants of the club would we have dumped if that was what it took to get hold of Chris Judd in the first place?

There will be booing and it will be good natured booing at worst. I won't boo. I won't cheer or clap him either, but I won't boo him. He is an extraordinary person and player, and I carry no grudge that he left us - only disappointment. We should remember that had he not re-signed with us, we could have lost him two years earlier.

I have just checked my emails and I am still shaking my head in wonder at the content of one email that I received. 

On first glance I imagine a lot of people wouldn't even give it a second thought, but to me it seems absurd in the extreme. Below is a copy of the key art of the email, which is from Ticketmaster:



I mean, for fuck's sake! the guy is a bloody disk spinner! He stands up front of a bunch of glassy-eyed, alcohol and drug-fueled mindless sheep and plays CDs. He spins records on turntable and then stops them from spinning for a fraction of a second. He plays other people's creative output. (Who have usually just ripped sections of music from other people's creative output).

For $83.50 (normal price) plus handling costs you can see this goon press buttons, scratch his balls and yell out over a microphone, "Hey guys and gals - this is really gonna blast ya - so get it on!" (or some such other mindless prattle).

Are people really going to pay for that dubious privilege? Of course they are.

Brave New World and 1984. We are here. If it is presented with enough of the right hype and fanfare, I daresay I could sell tickets at $90.00 a pop to come and see me pass my next stool. 'Shit happens' and I think I should try to make a squillion bucks from it. Before any smartarse comments appear - yes, I know I am full enough of it.