RESPECT MY GANGSTER

Weird thoughts. I am sitting in the departure lounge waiting for a red-eye to Japan.

I've apparently been bumped to Business Class, but I am unsure why, or even if it is true. I will arrive in Japan at dawn, and must stay awake until 4pm, when I can check into my room. I will sleep, and bathe, though not in that order.

I will go to Shibuya and look for a SIM card for my phone. It's important to have a phone in Japan. Because then I can prove that I never get calls in two countries. F@#$ off.

Dinner with Nana's manager is all set for Friday. I don't know if she will join us. I bought her a Japanese DVD box set of King of the Hill, the American animated series. And why not? It's got Japanese subtitles, it's a great show, it's the most realistic portrayal of American life I've evcer seen on TV, and the theme song makes me want to break stuff.

What more can you ask for?

Who is Bloomberg and why has he swallowed television in this godforsaken departure lounge? Minute-by-munute updates of the economy are terminally f@#$ing boring and I hope these talking heads get hit by gargabe trucks and are dragged screaming to their death with the taste of their own blood in their mouth.

I am very tired, but I am used to it. I am good at it. Besides, I have lots of medicine.

But never mind. Back to my originally scheduled blog entry:**** This is not as 'ride or die' as the cat with its face ripped off, but this dog deserves props:

From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090406/ts_afp/australiaanimaldogoffbeat_20090406082210

Dog overboard found four months later

SYDNEY (AFP) – A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.

Sophie Tucker, apparently named after a late US entertainer, fell overboard as Jan Griffith and her family sailed through choppy waters off the northeast Queensland coast in November.

The dog was believed to have drowned and Griffith said the family was devastated.

But out of sight of the family, Sophie Tucker was swimming doggedly and finally made it to St Bees Island, five nautical miles away, and began the sort of life popularised by the TV reality show "Survivor."

She was returned to her family last week when Griffith contacted rangers who had captured a dog that had been living off feral goats on the largely uninhabited island, in the faint hope it might be their long-lost pet.

When the Griffiths met the rangers' boat bringing the dog to the mainland they found that it was indeed Sophie Tucker on board.

"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told the national AAP news agency.

"She wriggled around like a mad thing."

Griffith said that when the dog was first spotted on the island she had been in poor condition.

"And then all of a sudden she started to look good and it was when the rangers had found baby goat carcasses so she'd started eating baby goats," she said.

Sophie Tucker, a member of the Australian cattle dog breed, had been quick to readjust to the comforts of home, complete with air conditioning, Griffiths said.

"She surprised us all. She was a house dog and look what she's done, she's swum over five nautical miles, she's managed to live off the land all on her own," Griffiths said.

"We wish she could talk, we truly do."So do I:"Thanks for the exhaustive search, you lazy b@stards."or "Oi! Throw a baby goat on the barby, I'm fackin' famished."or"Whose leg do I have to hump to get a Foster's?"or"No, I haven't seen the fackin' cat. Why do you ask?"