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Archive for November, 2008

Prologue to…

 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 [...]

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My interview with Contiki

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 top of [...]

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Bond and Bolivia

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 been [...]

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Lauryn Hill and me

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 [...]

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About the human body

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 [...]

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Protected: Holy shit!

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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 [...]

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Protected: The barriers fall, temporarily

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Barack Obama and me

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 [...]

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