Whatever the issues with free speech, I do hope that forecourt doesn’t become a regular protest site. Perhaps one day when Clover Moore’s town square opposite the Town Hall is established it could be a more appropriate place; there’s even that ‘town square’ metaphor in the language, after all
You could spin that second opening line into a popular song
Today’s random page Hafez divination:
‘Why, in your heart, have you forgotten me
And put your loving arms round someone new?’
Persia, a proud nation of poets
In no way am I not appalled at this, but Christian churches have ‘events’ every Sunday.
And a number of synagogues in Australia do have security guards at services
I have no idea whatsoever of any point that you are seeking to make, perhaps it’s my clouded ‘boomer’ brain; but good luck with boomer Trump’s latest international thuggery and its effect on oil
‘camp’ was common as a term at the time as I recall. Notable however was that the heckling was from that contingent, many of whom I had worked with, the straight folk didn’t know what was going on.
I certainly hope so. But I’ve read that peanut butter is good for baiting mouse traps, so who knows what goes on at chez crowbar?
Revival time:
‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (and the damn fool said ‘press on’) Pete Seeger
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A young child holding fans stands at the entrance to a room.
Zashiki-warashi are mischief-loving house #yokai appearing as young children. Phantom noises in the night or strange children's footprints can be a sign that they are haunting a home. They are considered lucky, protective, and can bring good fortune to a household.
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Yasunari Kawabata’s novel ‘Snow Country’ is a non sensational picture of a geisha and her regular winter client
Putting that particular program to one side, that’s the second week that Four Corners has been replaced. It’s concerning. The absence of ME informed and well connected John Lyons is worrying too, particularly at the moment
Illustration by Shigeru Mizuki depicting a man running out of a house. Behind him is a paper screen covered in pairs of yellow eyes.
In #JapaneseFolklore, mokumokuren is a strange supernatural phenomenon occurring when the shoji (paper sliding doors) in buildings get old and damaged. Over time, the holes transform into disembodied eyeballs which peer out at you. While this yokai is not particularly...
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Soviet joke: guy buys newspaper daily, checks front page, throws it away, asked why he says he’s looking for an obituary, when told that they are in the back pages, answers ‘not the one I’m looking for’
I checked reviews out, Roger Ebert was disturbed by the poor fisherman father selling his daughter into geishahood plot, no matter how they are politely romanticised
Directed by Kiwi Geoff Murphy
Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says
Don’t choke on the mochi! Naruto maki comes and goes in Japanese and Korean supermarkets around here, time for me to undertake another search
I’m not saying the advice and prescriptions of Islam are of merit, just attempting to address a fundamental difference between the two; and leaving that other Abrahamic religion out of it
President Donald Trump said the worst-case scenario in Iran would be if Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's successor was "as bad as the previous person". In many ways, the appointment of his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, delivers him that very outcome.
Vigil (1984) Directed by Vincent Ward
I'm watching
Vigil (1984)
And so you should. I was part of the sound post crew, and Vince had been my cutting room assistant for one university holiday break. He could be a demanding & irritating person, unfortunately to completion guarantors too on subsequent films
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I don’t know if there’s a US version, but Iranian ‘Taroof’ may well apply to the Iranian president
Persian divination: open Hafez randomly:
Moslems, time was I had a heart
a good one too
When problems came we’d talk,
and I’d
know what to do
and I’d
Early days of TV Australia: a number of ex UK techs came here. Australian manager’s lesson re how to shoot a scene, he made UK editor ‘clapper boy’ who delivered a 30 minute lecture on protocols of slate, take, and scene numbers relating them to continuity sheets & script markups A perfect put down
Australia today has placed age restrictions (18+) on internet ‘pornography’ sites so there will be a whole lot more young males who will have little idea of what it is, or what to do to it for the pleasure of women
When I bought an old book yesterday I learnt a new word yesterday - 'grangerised'. A note inside from the bookseller said it had 'grangerised' illustrations. I thought at first it must be some kind of photogravure technique, perhaps, but no. #book #history
Accurate editions of Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ have a blank page which represents a chapter that he hasn’t yet, or ever did, write
