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Jon-
"In the beginning-
nothing...After the end,
nothing..."NB: copyrighted!
(I' sure as shit even Lucas' couldnt develope that scenario!)
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And Kerry, he's really effective with the legal back-up bit - like Graham Sydney...
I suggest that we could/should all look really coolly at matters like
*audio books/renditions thereof of any kind
*any kind of electronic rendition of any kind of print (including drawings)- hey, I've been hassled by Microsoft!
Rob, I respect your fight. I'm sideways in there. I am a working writer
with * nothing* except my copyrights to continue my working life. I am not an academic. I do not have the dole. My only income is what my pen/keyboard provides. That is immediately important - but it is also long-tern important. And some of the examples -work going "rancid"? - given in this forum display a wonderful lack of knowledge about what being a working artist involves-as in, you have to make enough money for your morning coffee so you can work and if you dont, you * cant* make enough money for your morning coffee.
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The reason the locals supported the local Halloweening family - quite generously - was
a)they were locals (you cant just ignore people you know, see & be with frequently,) and
b)the kids (and parents) made interesting efforts to dress up *&*
learn a couple of tricks (different each year.)
A couple of times they brought friends and I recall with delight one tiny chap/chappess who licked the pages of the little book I gave it.
Hope over evidence - none of them were chocolate-coated...Really enjoyed your story Jackie!
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fires/bonfires/wildfires like fireworks- *have to be* part of winter solstice & especially Matariki (we used to have fires on the tops of certain hills (puketapu - there's one near Palmerston still so called, and others round the south)) - "feeding the stars" was the literal translation, and a very old lady I used to know (Taua Fan) worried that nobody did it any more.
Taua arohaina, I still do, but only as a solitary, or embedding it in a family/neighbourly bonfire...
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As a sort of addendum: I *NEVER* sign off/giveaway audio or electronic rights...5 times this year I've been politely hassled (by Microsoft and the Booker Komiti- let's call 'em that tho' they arnt actually) to sign extremely detailed contracts while being assurred that such signatures didnt waive any rights (except possibly, just in these minutely-detailed accords, stuff that possibly could be construed as pertaining perhaps and *only* (except for a 100 clauses)
in these circumstances - spread your legs/arse- sign here)- -
Y'know, premarinated....
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Andrewll. - dont forget those well-fed comestibles, entirely unaware of our ways, called 'loopies." With suitable persuasion (lotsa wine) they even dig their own umukai-
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Here in the wopwops. Halloween is ignored...there is one family with a kid old enough to go trick or treating - but they dont hold with Halloween. There used to be another family with kids that did it - and locals would buy lollies & offer subversive stuff like apples or books as well because - well, that family was local. And while there are 3 families with young children, they're a bit young to go out even with parental accompaniment...Halloween passed without even a sniff of a tiny greenpepper lantern roasting away...
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O, if it was the same museum in Copenhagen - totally devoted to weaponry? Including shot-towers, assassins' crossbows, Meschersmidts (sp.?) and executioner's swords? wherein I once spent a truly awed afternoon - boring the piss out my publisher & my mother who both wisely took off for shopping & early dinner-yep, there is a horned Viking-era helmet therein. What Viking helmets did have were elaborate horn-ish bosses - and sometimes bird-wings (a la Asterisk) and a really useful noseguard (frequently) and cheek-guards...I mean even the berserkers tended to keep their helmets on...
If you've ever tried wearing samples of these things, it is surprising
a)how loud internal headnoises becomes-
b)how really quickly they become uncomfortable- -
Ur Sacha - Hogmanay is definitely celebrated when it's always been celebrated - 31st December...we still do the whole bit, piece of coal,first-footing, dark-haired man first across the threshold, a dram & feast-cakes for the visitors...but that midwinter feast thing is quite recent (within the past couple of decades) and looks like being subsumed/embodied in Matariki. As Paul suggested, it's a bit divisive & a waste to have 2 feasts so close to one another - especially when we could just shift an irrelevant public holiday and gain a long weekend to celebrate both events, winter solstice & the rising of the Little Eyes...
o thanks re that keyboard mention...the Lemon was hosting a rather defunct cockroach spread under several keys...