For all the progressive thinking quite a few people do, it just gets worse and worse. As future great Jeff Thiessen of Saskatoon, Canada put it in semi-disgust: ”This is not a world run by those who feel, it’s run by those who strive not to feel, since little things like empathy and heartfelt gestures get in [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Prologue to…
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
My interview with Contiki
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Who, at least in concept, wouldn’t want to be a tour guide in Europe? I cut loose in this interview, because they would either love me or hate me but I would not be cut because I was too anonymous. Me: “Things are already difficult without all of us treating each other badly on [...]
Bond and Bolivia
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
God I love Daniel Craig. The nonsexual man-crush I have on him almost rivals the one I have for Barack Obama. I better balance this one out quick… what about Rebecca Twigley, she looks a bit all right, you know, I wouldn’t hesitate. I really would have preferred for Quantum of Solace to not have [...]
Lauryn Hill and me
Posted in People and me on November 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m torn. I don’t believe anyone in the last ten years in any spheres has ever had the same depth of wisdom that Lauryn Hill put into her songwriting but then I contrast the truth, beauty and clarity of her words with the undoubted inner hurt and hatred of her behaviour over the last ten [...]
About the human body
Posted in Uncategorized on November 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Back in the day I had an odd coincidence where I went out with about four women in a row who were either masseuses or studying to be physios. Occasionally I used to get lucky there in the afternoon light of my smallish room – no, not in that sense; I meant that they would [...]
Holy shit!
Posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Tonight my breathing has become forced, I’m doing everything with a rushed disposition or at least a feel that something major will happen tomorrow that I need to present well for. I’ve just understood what it is: For once in my life I want something. I walked into my year 12 and uni exams after [...]
A half-assed review of L’Étranger
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cup Day night, and I ended up flipping channels until I settled on some discussion show about books with Marieke Hardy (the thinking man’s prrrrr!) and random others. I like books, so why not. Halfway through the show they started talking about one called The Outsider (originally L’Étranger), by Albert Camus: a French guy in [...]
Barack Obama and me
Posted in People and me on November 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We’ve been through this a year ago in Australia, when we found out that however ‘young’ and new politics a politician presents himself (in this case it’s just ‘himself’ and not ‘her/himself’, the political scene being one of the surest indications that women are still second-class citizens)… in the end he turned out to be [...]
