Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A group of Sydney artists have collected $10,000 of public money, to perform a single showing of a play which featured a sex clown attacking the negative impact of Christmas on the global climate.
According to The Daily Telegraph;
SYDNEY Lord Mayor Clover Moore has slugged already hard-up ratepayers a whopping $10,000 to fund a controversial left-wing review that attacked Christmas as being bad for the environment.
The show, called Climate Change Variety Hour, was performed in front of tiny audience of just 70 people at Sydney University on Saturday night.
The poor turnout means Ms Moore spent about $142 of ratepayers’ cash per audience member.
One of the acts featured a bizarre performance by a near-naked “sex clown”.
Read more (paywalled): The Daily Telegraph
This isn’t the first time mixing a climate theme with inane nonsense has successfully secured public grant money. But seriously – is there no limit to bad taste and public waste? Couldn’t Sydney’s Lord Mayor find any better use for that $10,000? Maybe something slightly less climate related, like helping homeless people, or perhaps funding a few drug rehab beds, to help address Sydney’s out of control substance abuse problems?
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Sanctimonious self-righteous environmentalists, so filled with hate, pointing fingers everywhere, forgetting that for every finger pointing out, three are curled, pointing back at the true villain to the environment.
Being so anti- is not the same as being for something … the joy of life eludes them.
If only Spitzer had thought of this. He could have paid “Kristen” for a live stage performance and no one would have been the wiser. $10,000 to his “sex clown” to ensure a satisfied customer.
Presumably the audience of 70 found that it was a meaningful deconstruction of capitalism’s capture of Christmas [not that they’d agree with Christmas in the first place]
I note that there were over 54,000 students and 7,600 staff members who didn’t attend the review
Clover Moore has some explaining to do.
It is with a heavy heart I see that the council under Clover Moore has funded such a degrading to the human person, betrayal of art dressed up as sick fantasy.
However I am sure that if she was aware this would happen she would have defunded this organisation.
Many of her achievements in the City of Sydney have assisted the poor and mentally ill on the streets.
The expert architectural advice she obtained has meant that newer buildings are more energy efficient and some are covered in plants,so they don’t focus heat on their surroundings,part of the UHI effect.
Clearly the theatre group should do a full refund and donate it to assist those less fortunate on the streets.
It could have been worse. It could have been a permanent installation. Dunedin spent much more on a set of monstrous teeth to spoil a lovely harbour view and we STILL have to look at them. http://www.ost-sculpture.org.nz/press/154/
When it comes to spending other people’s money on “the arts”, politicians have no taste and no won’t-power.
What an eyesore…
Art, ya know .. it evokes a reaction
You guys have got it all wrong.
For the sake of the environment, Christmas should be banned along with all festivities, birthdays etc.
Think of the children!
it would be curious to see them doing such a mockery of say Ramadan.
If they did it would probably be to the tune of Frankie Lymons “I Put The Bomp“
@ur momisugly David A, 5.38 am: And that mockery would lead to more so called “justified” killings by Muslims. The world is up side down and inside out.
The perfect description of Cloward/Piven’s plans. (funny how my spell check wants to change that name to Coward)
It’s true. Don’t ignore that intuition.
It’s why many suffering from cognitive dissonance resort to projection.
Classic interchange in todays’ world.
“you cheated”
“no, i didn’t cheat, i just took advantage of an opportunity to level the scales”
“no, you took my shit and lied about it”
“no, you don’t deserve what you have and i’m leveling the scales of justice .. i’m my turn”
They’ve got their own global conference next year – SexClownsOfthePanet22.
Prepare the private jets.
If she had two brains both would be lonely
I am far from understanding how many folk in Sydney are bereft of a home and enough to eat, but a donation of $10,000 must have helped provide some relief. Instead those custodians of the public purse elected to squander money on some insane demonstration of their faith. These people are certifiable.
To Anthony and everyone else who contributes or visits this blog, may I wish you all the very best for Christmas and 2016.
Official figures can be found at http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/community/community-support/homelessness/street-count
A count “covering two thirds of the local area” found 352 “rough sleepers” and 476 in “hostels” for a total of 828 in August 2015. The total of “homeless” people in NSW is supposed to be >28,000; I suspect a definition mismatch problem. Taking the “rough sleepers” figure at face value, this theatrical performance would have paid for a new outdoor quality sleeping bag for each of the “rough sleepers”. Not that I’m saying that’s what’s most needed; just a price comparison.
Thanks for the information Richard.
The ones that need educating about waste are the ones that were pushing alarmism in Paris. Speaking of waste, so was the play.
I’m not liberal or conservative – I simply imagine what if resources were spent for any improvement …
I’ve done some more reading about this. I don’t know how these people bear to live. There’s a scene in The Last Battle where Aslan puts a feast in front of the treacherous dwarfs and they think they’re eating disgusting rubbish. Here we have a wonderful world before us, full of beautiful things, the kindness of strangers (many of you in this blog), cleaner air and water, and all they can do is hate. We have to be wary of dangerous people, but hatred will blind us too.
To all of you out there who seek truth without hatred, Merry Christmas (or Hanukkah or whatever) and many more of them.
Strippers against global warming!
HAHAHA…on the other hand, if we get to return to the Little Ice Age which seems to be the goal here of our rulers, the art of stripping on stage will end. Performing in fur coats will be ‘in’.
25 years ago, these people would have been safely locked away at the ” Funny Farm ” !!
“Couldn’t Sydney’s Lord Mayor find any better use for that $10,000? Maybe something slightly less climate related, like helping homeless people, or perhaps funding a few drug rehab beds, to help address Sydney’s out of control substance abuse problems?”
Let the peasants roll in Clover!
In its essence, the Warmist religion hates humanity. This peep-show (or whatever it is – I refuse to watch it) is a celebration of that hatred. These folks make the Grinch (pre-revelation) look like mother teresa.
True.
Maybe if they watch the Grinch coming to his senses (when his heart grew 2 sizes! 🙂 )….
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Grinch (before): “They’re finding out now that no Christmas is coming… .”
But,
Those with eyes that can see: “Christmas Day is in our grasp, so long as we have hands to clasp.”
Hey, “Grinch,” yeah you (and you and you and you, too) — there’s a hand reaching out …. to you. As someone said (more or less), “To hate is to drink poison thinking it will hurt someone else.” Come on, join in the celebration of love and joy (no matter what you believe about Christmas’ ultimate meaning).
al least the guy in white boots and tinsel hat has found where the heat has been hiding.
sorry woman
very sorry woman — no self-respect at all.
Will nobody think of the Great Immensity? ($700,000)
http://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/13-14-Season/The-Great-Immensity/
The article reads in part:
“A group of Sydney artists have collected $10,000 of public money, to perform a single showing of a play which featured a sex clown attacking the negative impact of Christmas on the global climate.”
Piffle.
At the recent climate conference in Paris there were about 40,000 clowns in attendance and it cost taxpayers billions.
Two decade ago, the question was:
Is global warming alarmism simply false or is it fraudulent?
Now, after the Mann hockey stick fiasco, the fabricated aerosol data used to fudge the warming alarmists’ climate models, the Climategate emails, and the many false “adjustments” of the surface temperature data record, there is no question:
Global warming alarmism is clearly fraudulent – in financial terms, it is one of the greatest frauds of all time.
– Allan
What the hell is a sex clown?
Jeff Id,
And what the double-Hell is a climatic sex clown? {pun intended}
John
A sex clown is a made up phrase to GET YOUR ATTENTION.
Sex always works and people like to laugh.
Unfortunately, I just don’t see it working as the Sex Clown Skeptic
That’s when a guy drops his pants and his girlfriend starts laughing uncontrollably.
It’s the antithesis to the Great Immensity. Um, not really. The Great Immensity is the male ego just prior to the reality described above.
Now, You don’t think I know this from personal experience do you? Of course I don’t. Honest. I don’t. I’ve, um, uh, been … told this.
OK, but did it needed to said out loud ?
What of the mystery.
never mind!
Jeff Id,
Ditto “never mind!”
John
Okay! #(:))
After that interesting side-discussion… (cough) BACK TO CHRISTMAS!
First, a reprise from December 18, 2018
“‘Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas”
by Joe Bastardi: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/18/twas-the-nightmare-before-christmas/
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Then, the video from my virtual advent calendar door from December 20, 2013
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
Performed by: Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
(youtube)
Can — you — find — the — typo? lolololol
(no, didn’t do it on purpose)
Who exactly decided that discussion was over ? 🙂
When do they leave for the gig in Rome?
Was She ever there ?
have a look at what she has done to sydney in the past years she has buggered the place with hher weird idears thi is one of her creationshttp://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/crate-rate-mate-western-sydney-company-offers-to-build-clover-moores-giant-milk-crate-for-500000/story-fni0cx12-1227010798550