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When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Read ZMM when I was young and...

Shoulda married that bird I met in the early 80's who kept pouring her dough into some Micro-light company... At least I think it was Micro-light.... Micro... something... Anyway, she did alright.

See now that's the kind of shameless disregard for culture and heritage that is so wrong with the world. No doubt this is recently taken in that Bukosski bloke's bungalow. Look at the bloody idiot in the pic. Pissing it up, filthing out the place, Wasting his life. Whadda knobhead. Anyone know...

"Remodel". Yeah don't you just love those "euphemistic dysphemisms". The term "gentrifying" was a term knocked around here for a while a few years back. "DeLongre will fall. It's just a matter of when." How bloody outrageous that any city would want to lose its heritage. Of course 50 years...

All you locals might find yourselves on patrol duty each day if the land under the bungalow is valuable. We had a particular "Heritage Listed" property here with a little house on it, hand built and lived in by an early Premier and his family. Unfortunately the land it was on soared in value...

Rumsfeld : The bureaucrat bard Shit that known knowns speech was funny. I remember it being parodied as something like the "Known Gnomes" speech which was only marginally funnier than the original drivel that oozed from Rumsfeld's gob. Somehow making it look like verse seems to give it a shade...

Being Friday night, last night, It was another fine liquid feast for my workmates and me... There are many good things about working for this unrepetant liver-transplant-survivor alcoholic... One being the sense of authority and rightness he imparts to the notion that drunkeness is better than...

A bold statement indeed. Gotta be careful in that terrain... You might shoot the neighbor. There are some who would argue that you include the US in your grand sweep of nations (not just Asian ones)... and if you're going there you will need to include her allies cos, y'know, they support th US...

Was he a Nazi sympathizer? Pre-December 1941 I bet he saw something in it. Why wouldn't he? Before the horrors became known (particularly during the 30s) it was not uncommon for Nazism to be seen as a force for good... (i.e. ending economic depression, a bulwark against communism etc) even the...

No worries. Glad you enjoyed it. I read that you might be a Pogues fan. They do a great rendition of a popular Aussie anti-war song - you might like. It's about the Gallipoli campaign during the first world war which is one of the most important and defining moments in Australian and New...

True. My claims about Rodriguez are a bit hyperbolic, I must accept... after all many other would've-been-greats have suffered as much, if not more, unjustified disregard... but they are made due to my respect for the man and my desire to assist him, in my own small way, find a wider...

Found on You Tube.

I'm sure you will not regret the time taken to track him down. Look for his album - "At his Best"

... and so the mystery only deepens.

Is there anyone here who can tell me why Rodriguez, (www.sugarman.org) a Detroit-born musician, never made it big in the US? What was it do you imagine about his music which America found so unacceptable or just unappealing? He has a big following across Australasia and South Africa but not...