From this moment on, I choose to live not as a victim, but as a survivor.

Melbourne surf shop Mordy Surf triggered outrage after posting the YouTube clip, in which an ocker man says he is gonna get a glass and smash it on some poof, on its website.

The thrill of discovery quickly wore off. TV crews and reporters were soon scurrying frantically to satisfy the medium’s insatiable appetite for novelty, sometimes achieving massive inanity instead. During coverage of the first great banquet, correspondents—who had not been given menus—variously described those little orange balls decorating the table’s center as pomegranates, oranges or JellO. (They were actually North China tangerines.)

Then we fell to kissing furiously and I tipped her velvet […]