New York is pretty different from Lower Hutt. In a lot of ways. But that doesn’t mean New York is BAD… its just ‘different’, y’know? I was down the Lower East Side recently with the guy from Sonic Youth. He was as cool as he looked in Rip It Up magazine! We tuned our guitars [...]
American man, 57. I just want a girlfriend. What the hell is going on here? Box no. 16/08.
London Review of Books, 18 August 2005, p. 39.
Hunter S. Thompson left a suicide note of sorts, written in black marker four days before he shot himself.
Football Season Is Over
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. [...]
The latest on the Chauvel, from the email list. See also the discussion here. Update: Note the time change below.
Be there!
Town Hall Steps
City Hall
Monday September 12th
6:00 for a 6:30pm meeting
City Council meets this Monday night. It’s been suggested that a silent demonstration would have a big impact on our cause. The [...]
We’re all getting pretty used to arts organisations of one sort or another shrinking, drying up, and disappearing, and it’s not often that you get a chance to try to do something about it. So if you live in Sydney—or even if you don’t—it’s very important that you help lobby the local council to save [...]
Seems to be a favourite word of New York critic Adam Kirsch. See reviews of Salman Rushdie (I’ve always thought Rushdie seems a superficial writer, even though I’ve never read him. Whence these judgments? I can’t even remember…) and Charles Bukowski (“The ironic result is that Bukowski, the ultimate underground poet, is now published by [...]
To the et cetera massive.
As you will have noticed, we have moved, to grander locales, where the grass is greener and the vistas vertiginous. If you are a regular (who am I kidding, I may as well address you all by name), please update your bookmarks to reflect the domain that N and I have [...]
So far we have assumed that our game animals have been standing or moving slowly and that they have been broadside to the hunter or slightly quartering. It would be very pleasant indeed if animals always presented themselves like that.
Jack O’Connor, The Art of Hunting Big Game in North America, Outdoor Life, 1967.You can either [...]
(1) The Furies
(2) Flowers for Graven Image
(3) Rothko Doorbell
(4) Heaven and Hell, Sideways