OK, OK so you want to know about the Friggin loon. Well, I have been in the media industry for over 20 years making documentaries, TV commercials and even a children’s show. I have traveled so much I am surprised I haven’t had an actor play me on Air Crash Investigations.Filming has lead me to some of the most beautiful and dangerous parts of the world,where I have seen poverty and privilege, freedom and fighting, humor and sorrow, miracles and mayhem. Ah,all culminating in the birth of my cynicism, sarcasm and an endless flow of wonderment . I accidentally slipped into the world of IT nearly 10 years ago and now it is my second home. I have far too many mainstream websites to count, so for my own amusement I started ramblings on Friggin Loon. As my sense of humor (and probably thinking) is a little left of center I thought I would give it a go and maybe brighten the day of other loons out there. Not enough people question news stories, look between the lines! I find the news is a abundant source of amusement, hypocrisy and loon commentary opportunities. I have always been a news junkie and love nothing better than adding my twisted spin, much to the horror of the people I write about (sorry!).The world has become far too politically correct, complacent and serious for this Loon. So whack on your loon goggles and enjoy the alternative view. Oh and if you get offended or disagree with something I have said please don’t fill your comments with profanities just give your point of view or step away from the blog. If you haven’t realized by now some of my posts are deliberately baited and not necessarily my point of view. Think, discuss, debate and voice people!
Oh and be kind to snails….
96 Comments
December 5, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Hi Loon
Love your blog. I’ll be linking to it in my blog roll. Would appeciate it if you did the same for mine. Thanks
December 5, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Sounds fair, consider it done!
December 30, 2008 at 7:23 pm
You mentioned you’ve been all over, where’s home? Specifics aren’t needed, just country…
January 2, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Oh come on Ponytail 75 do you think I would spoil the fun, not even my friends know where I live, but thank you for asking!
January 19, 2009 at 5:24 am
Hi Frigginloon
Sorry to bump you off AI but here’s a comment for the injustice.
best
bruce
http://brucemhood.wordpress.com/
January 19, 2009 at 5:40 am
No I got it. See ya soon
February 9, 2009 at 1:28 am
Hey there!
I stumbled upon your blog, after seeing you on my blog stats. Like your style!
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February 9, 2009 at 10:01 am
Cheers Peak Models…cheeky…
February 14, 2009 at 3:42 am
I worked in print media for about 12 years. Some of that time was with Text Publishing . It was run by Eric Beecher who used to be with The Age and Di Gribble. Both fabulous people to work for. I just loved the industry, the people and my job.
You meet all kinds of people in this industry and I’d say it was the best time of my life. I miss it now as I had to retire early to become a carer but I did meet lots of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. If I had my time over start out in Media . My trade is actually in hairdressing but I soon tired of all the gossipy old ladies. The day I finished my apprenticeship was the day I finished hairdressing although I have cut all my family’s hair all of their lives. So you see nothing is ever a complete waste of time.
February 14, 2009 at 6:11 am
Hi Ann, just a quick note to thank you so much for your valuable contribution to Friggin Loon. You may not know this but you are building up quite a following here.
February 15, 2009 at 3:37 am
Hi Loon.
Stumbled across your site looking for a blog with guts. Just wanna say hi and to say that i hope that friggin loser arsonist is given the works by the lifers and is discovered smoldering in his cell.
February 15, 2009 at 4:14 am
Thanks Agnos, you will be more than welcome here. The loons have a lot to say and ain’t afraid to say it.
February 18, 2009 at 8:01 am
just like to express my appreciation for an excellently? amusing and informative site. at 46 i’m very new to corresponding www style, so if i accidently stuff up ettiquite wise i appologise in advance. having been both a nurse and an autopsy tech. i admire your sense of humour. keep it up!
February 19, 2009 at 10:45 am
LMAO, I just got to reading this about you section..how uncanny, we are both NEWS junkies. I always google bigpond news, then 3aw news, then nine news and I have to read the papers..when I can get time to do that..and of late, I update on the cfa website..due to our bushfire activity..and because my Aunt lives up the bush out of Malmsbury and well, pardon the pun, but they are not out of the woods at all. It worries me sick.
Anyway, I am so glad I stumbled across your blog. I think I got here actually..yes, I know, it was when I googled about the friggin arsonist from the Churchill fires. I got your link there. Now, I got it forever!
February 19, 2009 at 10:47 am
Cheers Cazzie, I have added your blog to the Friggin Loon too.
February 25, 2009 at 12:15 am
It appears we share the same sense of humour and other interests.
Love your work.
March 24, 2009 at 8:21 am
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March 24, 2009 at 9:22 am
Hi ya Iggy, nice link! Maybe a comment would be suffice
March 24, 2009 at 1:02 pm
“birth of my cynicism, sarcasm and an endless flow of wonderment .”
This line reminded me of something that one of my favorite performers, musician Shawn Phillips said on NPR’s World Cafe in an interview.
This is site is purposely not mainstream.
Same for the artist I mention.
Nice site…..you friggen loon!
March 24, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Hi ya Sekan Blogger. It’s about time one of you Prairie Populists and Progressives dropped in for a chat! Thanks for the comment.
March 24, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Oh, man I’ll do more than chat.
I’m as windy as the Kansas weather.
Damn, we really got our gullies washed lastnight.
50 mph gusts followed by a good line of storms.
I don’t think any towns got blown away….this time.
Okay, talked about the weather, that’s a start.
If this isn’t nice, what is?
March 24, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Hi Y’all. Just dropped in for a friendly comment. Hope you visit us over at PPP again soon. We like company, even when the place isnt tidy.
Loon, I’m a news junkie too, and still work for the local paper. Heh. I write a lot of “chicken dinner” news. Not the big time like you all. The editor doesnt even use email. His wife does it for him.
The news is so funny it makes me cry. Glad to know cynicism lives.
March 25, 2009 at 12:03 am
Hey there, another Praire Pop, thanks for the drive-by. Yes, I have had a tip toe through your blog…I especially love your comments guideline…News is just an abundant source of amusement and fills in the silent pauses during dinner parties! See you guys real soon…
March 25, 2009 at 1:34 am
“It a matter of laughing about it or crying about it. And grown men are not suppose to cry!”
You have to have a sense of humor about the world otherwise the last time you chuckle on this planet will be when the rope tightens around you neck. LOL another P&P. here.
March 25, 2009 at 2:56 am
Hey P&P great to see another drive-by. I am going to have to link you Prairie people, you guys/gals are a hoot. I have a sneaking suspicion the Prairies and the Looners are going to be a bad influence on each other!
March 25, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Are ya’ sure?
We can be a rough crowd!
Whydya think we hadda have rules?
Seriuosly, I think it’s a great bunch over there.
Most of us have blogged together for years at “theotherblogwedontmention”. It is frequented (now) by mostly right-wing nasties.
March 25, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Ah, my biggest fear, right wing nasties ….they have been here too, but I think I scared them off
March 25, 2009 at 3:47 pm
It is frequented (now) by mostly right-wing nasties.
LOL to my honor I seem to be the only right-wing nasty that migrated to P&P.
Better class of people there, or it could be they just have some semblance of class!
March 25, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Right you are, all hail the right-wing nasties
April 4, 2009 at 5:59 pm
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25287600-5005961,00.html
check it out! LMAO!
April 4, 2009 at 11:04 pm
How did I miss that one!
April 4, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Loon, how do I find out what other blogs you have?
Is that allowed?
Do you need my personal email?
April 5, 2009 at 4:35 am
Hi ya Sekan, I shall send you some of my other sites but if you show anyone I will have to kill you! Would hate people to think I have a real job!
April 5, 2009 at 12:42 am
Miss what?
April 5, 2009 at 4:34 am
Ah the story of the toothpaste tubes…sorry Sekan…
April 5, 2009 at 5:09 am
Thanks Loon.
Didja see that friggin nut in North Korea got his latest rocket to fly?
Send info to: ********
Your secret is safe with me, crap I got a friggin job with the US Census Bureau starting next week.
I hope I don’t hafta count cows….HA!
April 5, 2009 at 6:09 am
Urgh, my chooks have stopped laying. I actually have dedicated a whole category to Friggin Kim Jong. Letting Kim Jong play with rockets is like letting Mugabe retain power despite losing an election! Lucky I have a bomb shelter in my backyard. God knows what was in that friggin missile!
April 5, 2009 at 10:38 am
I believe the missile was stuffed with toothpaste. It was reported that after the missile crashed in the ocean (the report it gained orbit was false), porpoises could be seen brushing their teeth with pidgins. My assumption, then, is the individual caught stealing toothpaste in Germany, was there on holiday from North Korea, and simply trying to corner the now vacant toothpaste market back home. My assumptions have yet to let me down . . . well . . . there was that one time . . .
April 5, 2009 at 10:41 am
Furthermore, if tracyaphillips@*****.com starts getting porno spam, it’s not my fault.
April 5, 2009 at 1:08 pm
No, I have paid it forward…..welcome to the world of Russian porn……
April 5, 2009 at 11:01 am
I love porno spam.
I forward it to the unfortunate people in Kenya who desperately need my help getting some huge inheritance that they wish to share with me, a total stranger.
April 5, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for 86′ing the email addy.
I don’t need the porno spam.
Just not that interesting….anymore.
April 5, 2009 at 11:09 pm
No, I just removed it so that when you do get the truck loads of spam there is no proof it was my fault. Do you know how much I got selling it to the telemarketers?
April 22, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Dear Loon:
I discovered your blog this evening (can’t remember how, really, but that’s cyberspace for you!) I laughed heartily, and even posted a few jibes myself. I immediately wanted to share my discovery of THE FRIGGIN LOON with my closest friend – my older brother. We are both in the 55-65 yrs range.
Then I read your description of yourself. OMG! I’d suggest you ARE my brother, but I know my brother has absolutely no blogging inclinations! Then again, you could be ME! But that would be just too surreal to contemplate.
Trust me LOON – I’ll be back! With friends!
KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK. Some of us out here are really connecting with you…
April 22, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Hi there Charles the Second, thanks for the compliments. Looking forward to some banter with like minds.
April 23, 2009 at 2:46 am
Dear Heart,
Not quite at joy but close enough to poke it with a short pencil. A refreshing site. Thank you from the man who penned . . . “My don’t give a shit is so wide and so deep, it makes the World Trade Center look like Little Bo Peep.” And I wrote it all alone (with the aforementioned pencil) with no help from nobody, honest to God!
Love on ya!
April 23, 2009 at 2:54 am
Gee thanks, my comments have been anxiously awaiting moderation for my entire friggin life. Not that it’s over mind you. Gotta go . . . I’m late for my anal probe.
Love on ya!
April 26, 2009 at 9:38 am
Loon , Judith was so funny. I loved her new show as it was basically about turning forty. Forty is now the new thirty. Bullshit, when you are forty you are FRIGGIN forty. Take it from one who knows. Anywho! I actually bumped into an old Jewish boss and his wife with a couple of their very Jewish friends. I thought it a very odd place for them to be but hey, who cares? I didn’t think his wife appreciated vulgarity the likes that only Judith gets away with. Whilst working with this gentlemen I was made aware that most Jewish woman aren’t as liberal thinking as their Gentile sisters. However after realising who this white haired old Jewish man was as he was a bit older, fatter and probably richer.I said hello to him. Well the other Jewish lady acknowledged that I knew him and she asked if I had been one of his girlfriends the way only a Yiddish A Mamma can ask. I think he’s been married around 42 years so I must have looked VERY OLD to her.Even with my new Posh Spice Haircut Lol. I think I made her evening when I said “Yes I was but how come I never met you?” OMG if looks could have killed. I heard her muttering to her husband. I wonder if I discussed when they all went out to dinner afterwards. Old biddy !
April 26, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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April 28, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Wow, I am really flattered that I’m added to your blogroll. Thanks…just one thing…you typo’d my name as Mike when it should be Mark. If you could fix that that’d be great, and…I look forward to chattin’ with y’all
April 28, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Thanks Mark, whoops silly me…I know a Mike Riley. That is why I am the friggin loon
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June 26, 2009 at 11:38 pm
I had to stop by and say, your comment on the Michael Jackson post was dead on. I like the way you think.
June 27, 2009 at 2:39 am
Hey Charles thanks for the drive-by, hope to hear from you again real soon!
July 2, 2009 at 12:46 pm
You realize of course, that Michael Jackson actually died of food poisoning.
He ate an 8 year old’s weener.
And that wasn’t a clap of thunder you heard last weekend. It was Elvis whupping Michael Jackson’s ass for marrying his daughter.
bada-bing.
July 2, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Didn’t he die in a children’s hospital of a stroke?
July 2, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Now Charles really, an 8 year old’s weener. Come on he was 12 lol
July 9, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I don’t know if I could make you blush or not, but after 30 years being a construction foreman I could probably give you a run for the money. In the very least I know I can offend pretty much anyone that I’ve taken vulgarity to the next level. I just prefer to be humble, I’ve gotten myself into more than my share of trouble online already. That or it just seems to find me, although that excuse didn’t work on the last administration.
July 10, 2009 at 1:11 am
I have that problem too…oh well can’t please everyone. Hmm, a construction foreman poet, who knew?
July 18, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Hey loon, thanks for the driveby on my blog. I love your site except for all the wordiness..haha j/k.
July 18, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I guess I deserved that! Keep it up and I may have to link to ya! Oooh as long as you quit with those cartoons
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July 19, 2009 at 12:05 am
Hey there, is it just me or is there a tiny weeny smiley face to the top right of your blog here? I thought it was a blight on my screen, but I don’t think so!
July 19, 2009 at 3:25 am
Hi Cazzie, it’s creepy isn’t it. I think it maybe an alien or a WordPress spyware. I sometimes wave at it by not so much as a wink!
July 19, 2009 at 2:23 am
I want a little cartoon instead of the blue design. How do you get it there Loon?
July 23, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I’ve seen yours, here’s mine…
Brainbooger.com
July 25, 2009 at 2:17 am
If you’re well travelled can you give me a few hints on what I shouldn’t miss in Singapore? I’m going there next week. Already know about The Clinic and the “fish who eat your dead skin” spa…
July 25, 2009 at 3:21 am
Don’t chew gum or spit on anything.
August 10, 2009 at 1:31 am
Love your site and sense of humor! Linking you to my roll!
:huggles:
~watergirl~
September 1, 2009 at 10:35 am
Thank the deities that some non-pc world perspective is available here.
PS Tempted over from madhatters.
September 11, 2009 at 1:17 am
Loon, love the crazy sense of humor and the posts, hope to flame some of them soon…
O.F.
September 11, 2009 at 1:32 am
Is that really you Frank? Well I am sure the loons will love to hear all about your chicken grinding thoughts
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September 14, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Uh Oh I should have read this page earlier, I killed about 10 snails on the weekend in the garden
September 19, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I’m always kind to snails. (But not slugs… I hate them.)
September 29, 2009 at 5:45 am
Geez, a slug is just a homeless snail…..isn’t it??!!
September 29, 2009 at 10:33 am
A slug is what I used to call my husband when he was being lazy. “Get your arse off that couch you lazy slug”. Then he do exactly what he wanted. I still call him a big slug when he’s being lazy lol It’s a term of endearment in this household.
October 21, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I am officially a frigginloon reader D:
Liking the way how frigginloon writes his/her posts and generates discussion because of the article sarcasm.
I like yer blog. Short and simple about the news.
October 21, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Thanks Rilyad. Humor is what gets us through
. Pull up a seat any old time.
October 21, 2009 at 12:56 pm
There goes the typo again~ Rilyad*
Hope to see more humor around! (And I’m glad this blog is clean of random profanities comments)
October 21, 2009 at 1:03 pm
I swear Riyad, it’s my keyboard
…. Psst there is some profanity but I try to keep it to “friggin” and “WTF” 
October 21, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I do too [like your blog]. Loon, where do you get your daily inspiration from?
October 21, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Hey there Mark. I was stomping on your blog this morning. I have to dig and dig and then dig some more!
October 24, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I am sorry…
that i hadnt read you before! geez i think ive been livin under a rock!
loony u and bearman iz my new inspiration for my political blog I think I have inspiration to turn it around and make it more effective. Humour is better, I usually speak humurously about it but when i put fingers to keyboard about political stuff i get all serious and my close friends who know about it say that its not me.
I shall take this into account now
nice blog FL
October 26, 2009 at 9:35 am
Well you took your own sweet time, geez Susi Spice! You’ll have some friggin catch up reading to do
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October 26, 2009 at 10:13 am
You’ll find plenty to laugh at here on Loon’s blog, susi
October 26, 2009 at 1:45 pm
its like a whole new world!!
*jumping up and down with excitement*…oh crap i dropped my lollipop
November 7, 2009 at 6:51 pm
This blog is friggin’ spectacular.
Nice work, poppet.
November 8, 2009 at 7:35 am
Steady on, Jay-Jay
Jeez, you’ll be giving her a friggin big-head
November 8, 2009 at 7:47 am
Oh geez Duncan, this humble little Loon
November 8, 2009 at 8:07 am
modesty becomes you !!!
November 8, 2009 at 8:16 am
Not really Duncan
as I sip on my Moet.
November 8, 2009 at 10:29 am
Ah that’s my girl Loon, nice drop.
November 8, 2009 at 1:34 pm
November 18, 2009 at 7:55 am
It’s amazing how much we have in common. I also work in advertising a bit, though virals and copy as opposed to commercials. I also love to travel and really experience how other cultures live. I’ve always been a news junkie, but now living in Spain (and without so much as a TV) I now get most of my news from the Daily Show. Seriously. Especially judging from a distance, I can now see how utterly ridiculous it has all become. Especially in the states. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!
I’m so glad Nursemyra suggested you!
November 18, 2009 at 8:18 am
Why thank you Scott. I must say I am enjoying your blog just as much
November 18, 2009 at 10:50 am
This is just so touching Loon. We don’t often have such tender moments but this is good.
November 18, 2009 at 10:53 am
I know Ann, I think Scott’s given me diabetes
See if we can’t harden him up a bit (in a non sexual way I mean 
).