Reasons you will hate me

I'm not sure what the problem is Fitso - aren't drugs supposed to make you happy? Doesn't he look happy?
I mean, doesn't that picture just make you go 'Geeeeee".

Overal great advertising for the new industry that is poised to take over where the now overpriced alcopops left off.

He also has a great dentist. The shirt is a little too "McDonalds uniform" for me though.

Maybe theres a lack of depth in the pictures on hand? Maybe there are no photos of Todd without the "spirit fingers", maybe "spirit fingers" are his proverbial "Best Side"?

A sad case of a controlling little diva trying to control his press. Then again, maybe the editor just has an awesome sense of humour.

Perhaps SMH were going for satire based on the juxtaposition of story vs image i.e. here is Todd really awake as oposed to when he was allegedly found in the park. They're pretty clever at the SMH...intellectual like.

I almost think putting up a photo like that may work in his favour. He has continued to maintain his innocence (I don't know how believable it is... I've not really read much about it) and his personality. If a newspaper was to cast him differently now, with a sombre photo of him walking down the courthouse steps, it would immediately paint him as guilty, moody and defensive. I don't like him - but I don't watch Dancing With The Stars either, so I don't dislike him. I don't know anything about him, but I do feel a bit sorry for him. How embarassing, whatever the circumstances. Almost as embarassing as that photo!

PS: Was hanging out for your post today Ms Fits... I thought after your gargantuan Q&A session on Friday that you may still be recovering and we'd all have to go without! Heaven forbid.

PPS: I enjoyed the interview this morning with Neil Gaiman. Emailing poems and stories to his daughter, and then setting up a trust fund using the royalties from Crazyhair - what a great way to make your kiddiwinks feel special and included in what you do. When I enter the scary world of parenthood, I don't think serving a writ on my littluns is going to have quite the same effect, do you?

No, if he'd been run over by a car, they'd have gone for this:



I love his Joey Johns Defence for having some grevious in his pocket: "Somebody put it there! The...the party elves. Like the gnomes that come out at night and hide your car keys under the fishtank. They plant drugs on celebrities all the time. Nobody can see them until it's too late!"

Looks like the drugs are working. Now for some medication to help him get over the hansonitis.

They could use that pic for the drugs story too Marmalade.

Could've been worse. I'm envisaging the following, captioned with: "In darker times, McKenny has been known to attack unsuspecting members of our defence forces while trawling for rough trade".



Or they could've been really cruel and gone with this:

'A drug-addled slide into a morass of depravity.'
Sounds like a fun ride in an existential theme park. enui!

The photo they used is from an old Todd McKenney joke.

One day on thw town, Todd had had a few and said to a likely looking lad, "Lets go into Hyde Park and I'll show you a magic trick.".

So the pair went into Hyde Park, found a nice corner and Todd told is young friend to face the corner and pull his pants down. The yound friend obliged.

Todd then said can you feel my hand on your bum? The young lad said "yes".

Right now can you feel my finger going into your arsehole? The young lad said "yes".

[insert photo]

"That's magic!"

Farrah Fawcett's got rectal cancer, hasn't she?
Just seems wrong to me. She never looked halfassed in a pic like Toddles does above, and yet she gets that. Half an ass.

You such a lucky bugger for getting to chat to Neil Gaimen this morning, he seemed like a really cool guy.

I missed all his Melbourne events >:(

Well, yes, they did have to use that photo as it was part of a series he'd done to warn the young people about the dangers of illegal drugs and binge-drinking ... the dialogue goes,

"Now, kids, when the drugs you've been slipped paralyse your face into an open-mouthed ricture like this, and then you see an 8 foot tall bloke coming at you wielding a 24 inch erect penis like this, you know you're about to be well and truly fucked over, sideways and up, and then you'll look back and regret the day you ever gave up Bible study and went to the pub with Bubba instead ... he was always a bit of a strange one, was Bubba ..."

Lucky cunt. I have to pay for my own drugs. Must be a Sydney thing.

In Melbourne I'm always leaving my drink exposed at bars in the hope someone spikes it. Nobody does. They just drink it when I'm not looking.

Marmalade: "No, if he'd been run over by a car, they'd have gone for this."

LMAO

Body language is the window to the soul, isn't it? I watched Seven Sunrise's "exclusive" interview with Todd McKenney over this incident.

The imploring, desperate look on his face as he gave his account of the incident was the worst acting I've seen since Sally left the Bay.

Then there's the missing 12 hours. According to McKenney, he left the party in Kings Cross at 3.00am - and was finally arrested in Rushcutters Park at about 3.00pm. After being seen ramming a fence with his head - and "acting strangely".

Couple of things there:
• there is no fence around Rushcutters Bay except against a couple of blocks of flats right up at the Kings Cross end of the park.
• a mothers group meets daily at the cafe in the park
• it's adjacent to a yacht club
• soccer teams practice there
• there's a tennis club busy most days.

So, Todd McKenney hardly made it down the steps from Elizabeth Bay Road into the park after 12 hours. And hundreds of people, including mothers and toddlers just watched for hour after hour as McKenney kept ramming his head into a fence.

Like, you can see why I love the Eastern Suburbs, can't you?

Eliot (Marxist - Grouch tendency)

gerald, fixed that for you.

Of course he is on drugs. How else could u get even a little bit excited about some of the TV this bloke does.

Do you think he is a mate of Richard Quest?

"Do you think he is a mate of Richard Quest?"

More likely Richard Simmons

Whatever the circumstances of his arrest (after reportedly telling the cops he had GHB in his pocket. Funny how he knew then, but the party gnome story came about later), he's obviously not smart enough to go for the Joey Johns defence.

That picture is the perfect example of some serious mental health issues, sadly driving him to illicit designer drugs and Enough Rope interviews.

Aah, this post makes me smile after a whole day of being shitty.

It's funny on just so many levels.

That picture gave me a fright

Really I jumped

I think tghey were trying to visually convey his verbal defnce.

'Well Shucks! I Dunknow!'

I mean 'they' and 'defence'. I have a bandaid on my finger.

'defence'

That could be part of the confusion surrounding the case - he repeatedly hit his head on his defense.

Okay. Okay. It's a bit clearer now.

I just love that he just happened to stumble across the biggest Beat in Sydney in his delirium.

It could have been worse. He could have been found with a rope tied around his genitals like this unfortunate person.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04192008/news/regionalnews/kinky_news_networkcnns_quest_a_very_knot_107174.htm

Actually the resemblance is uncanny.

I'd feel sorry for him if he actually admitted he'd willingly taken the drug, and that with hindsight, 'drugs are bad' a la Mr Mackey.

But he hasn't, he's pushed that tired old line that the drugs were planted on him, that his drink was spiked.

Give us a break. We didn't all come down in the last shower of bong water.

Shameless promotion (for a good cause),

To the people who enjoyed Neil Gaiman on the radio, he is doing a keynote speech this Sunday in Melbourne as part of the Children's Book Council Conference, that anyone can buy tickets to, see:

http://www.iceaustralia.com/cbca2008/register.html

(bottom of the page)

Oh what fun! What profligate ne'er do wells, slipping $400 worth of GHB into Todd's pocket just to set him up.

I'm a bit confused by the NYP story

"Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law-enforcement sources said"

I thought they called a "boot" a "trunk" in the US. Or did they mean he had the sex toy in his "booty"?

My favorite news is coming out of WA.
Where I'm from, the term for a person who sniffed a lady's bicycle seat was a "poon".
Apparently in Western Australia someone who sniffs a lady's seat is called "The Leader of the Opposition"!

Bomba said... "I thought they called a "boot" a "trunk" in the US."

Yes, "trunk" is American vernacular for "footware".

woodsman said... "I just love that he just happened to stumble across the biggest Beat in Sydney in his delirium."

Correct! And the men's loo is right next to the café where the mothers' club meets daily.

What a fucking GREAT park.

I'm in two minds on this one. I mean, it's obvious he's bullshitting, but unfortunately, given his target audience, I understand why he feels it necessary. Middle Australia tends to be very judgmental about things like drug use, and it probably would threaten his career if he just said, as one of us here might, "Look, I had big night, ok?" Eh.

I mean, a gay man in Sydney taking GHB. Unheard of. *rolls eyes*

It's well known in the gay community that GHB has the effect of, how do I say this, loosening up the back for use.

He should have just come out with a mea culpa straight away. I love a good mea culpa; in fact, I love anything that can be described with a Latin term.

"gluteus maximus" for example

Marxstabatory = winner!

If I had a head like that I'd be bashing it against a fence too!

Re. the New York Post story, nothing gets past the NYPD:

The criminal complaint says the officer at the scene was able to ID the drug because of "his prior experience as a police officer in drug arrests, observation of packaging which is characteristic of this type of drug, and defendant's statements that . . . 'I've got some meth in my pocket.' "

Those cops are sharp.

Also from the NYP story: "It wasn't immediately clear what the rope was for."

I think the Post enjoys a good pisstake. Its editor was the one who took Rudd to Spankers or whatever it was called.

They have to amuse themselves somehow, Kevon 07 is coming to open their new building (6 mths after they moved in) and only 500 people can fit into the marquee so they're holding a ballot to see who gets in for a gander - maybe the picture editor was trying their best to win a ticket?

can a person suffer not quite so severe rectal cancer??

Although this picture does tell a 1000 words, it's just unfortunate that none of them are related to what actually happened. And Fits, surely you should know that pausing for thought and making appropriate choices are not the media's strongest points...?

There is such a thing as low-grade rectal cancer, or "Grant Denyer" to use the more common term.

Ben, I would think that "Grant Denyer" low-grade rectal cancer probably started off as an offshoot from "David Koch"

Oh! That kind of boot!
*blush*