Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Isn't that what organised religion is for?
As the American Poet J.M. White put it:
there was a time
in the history of this globe
when conservative
evangelical
fundamentalists
were in charge
of the church
the state
and the schools
they call it
the dark ages
or in the words of Lenny Bruce:
"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God"yrs Pig Cat-Eons
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aaah... the sleep of the just...
But what exactly do you do with that shield in bed?
Shield? - I thought it was a smother-pillow
in case they wouldn't drink the Kool-Ade : )Or maybe it is for hitch-hiking on passing Vogon Constructor fleets in case the Rapture is a no-show - to mix threads : )
Discipline is everything - where is the
feather-weight Dressing-Down Gown?yrs Bob Jonestown
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All Sing Now:
" There is a balm in Gilead, To make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead, To heal the sin-sick soul."unfortunately Donald Rumsfeld is the Barmy of Gilead
(Doing very nicely out of Tamiflu - thank you very much...
The man who put GILA in Gilead and ASP in aspartame)I'm guessing Unca Donny's school Reports to Br'er Bush never included:
"Thou shalt not kill"
or
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
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"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone"Is Obama Sin Laden too?
reversing his decision to release photographs of detainee abuse
and reinstituting Military tribunals at the still unclosed Guantanamo Bay Political Prison
Maybe the US of A can find a 12 step programme to help it out of its Power Addiction - Owning up to its past misdeeds would be a great start - otherwise it's just business as usual - Big Business that is.
I note the American mainstream media high-fiving over the release of the Woman Journalist, Roxana Saberi, in Iran with no mention of the Journalists that The US has imprisoned without charge and STILL has imprisoned...
US Continues to Imprison Reuters Photographer in Iraq
The United States is continuing to imprison at least one journalist without charge. Ibrahim Jassam, a freelance photographer for Reuters, has been held in Iraq since September despite objections from the Iraqi government, Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders and Reuters. Unlike Saberi’s case, Jassam’s imprisonment has received little news attention in the United States.and on Salon:
Free all Journalists!yrs The Librarian
Nag Hammadi -
Lock up your daughters!
Oh we may laugh now...
Once these freewheelin pump action pedal-philes start streaming through these newly-enlightened suburbs, their spare chains draped bandolier style across their sweating, oily shoulders... sleeping rough in cemeteries and despoiling our catchments and reservoirs... and how do we tax them? no petrol, no tolls, no hubodometers - perhaps a small levy on meat pies?
Their motto "sit on it and rotate" (your feet) says it all - (though it probably looks very snappy in Latin!) it is not too late to construct a route that goes down hill from Kelburn with a ramp that drops them straight into the harbour to be used as a new reef and eventually reclaimed land for more retail space.yrs Oscar Wild One
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under Darby Street ...would likely get you in the end
The place in that block that really got me was the Gallows Grotto - when ya went out the fire escape and up onto the roof and onto the next building (the old Police barracks / building centre facing onto Eliot st) and in the middle was a large green mossy well (like an ancient South American sacrificial cenote) which had no current access from inside seemingly - it was the old gallows yard, complete with cat walk around the sides, an eerily silent and desolate place, palpably cold on even the hottest day - it never failed to raise goose bumps when I was in proximity to it - even through the wall of the underground carpark (Where the Headless Chickens had their practice room. To this day I still think it was a contributing factor to the dark current that took Johnny Pearce away - RIP)
I sometimes wonder what that part of the modern high rise, that occupies the site now, feels like?
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We were the ones who had to pack the bloody things up and take them to the Wellesley St PO.
All of a block away from Darby st, phew! - just opposite Blue Beat wasn't it ? ; ) (and DKD Upstairs, yum) and on a lucrative trip to to the PO box we could go to Dominoes - I haven't had better deep fried Tofu since.
And lest we forget at least 2 Rheineck Rock Award winners were part time mail order packers - No one from Ardijah though!
(Rheineck is still quite a quaffable ale and $5.99 a half dozen at my local supermarket)We'd had to listen to Murray's Duran Duran and Bob Seger records
...and a power of Motown, I can still smell wax whenever I hear the Four Tops or The Temptations!
yrs Pavlov Stogs
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If you want a nice shirt, go to Strangely Normal. They're wicked.
Russell - nice product placement : )
Great to hear that they are still around, (proof that a good product will persevere) I remember doing their monthly ads in RIU way back when, and dining near their shop whenever we had enough money from mail orders on Duran Duran books - ta Murray! : )I *love* customs at Auckland Airport
Not Customs per se - but what about the scanning security at airports these days?
Having just put my defacto father-in-law on a plane back to Napier, I warned him about not taking his treasured Swiss Army knife in his pocket, (they don't check on the provincial flights out). When scanned he rang all the bells and they tried to confiscate his Leatherman, pliers, and crescent - luckily we were there to retrieve them for him (but if we hadn't been... - why don't they have bubble bags you can buy and post these items to yourself instead of just taking them to do god knows what with? - it's called customer relations!)
But then they let him totter on to the plane with his hardwood cane with the pointed handle - easily able to puncture a pressurised aluminium shell, perspex window or cranium!!
go figure...I go bespoke.
So that's who the new cycle ways are for!
Me, I go side on (Cleanly)yrs
Ayn Rand Om-Factor -
we might be able to arrive before we depart - relativistically.
or even allow the highly strung to arrive beside themselves
thread theory even arriving in a universe where commonsense prevailsmeanwhile I'm down the end of the garden
and away with the theoriesyrs
Maxwell Silverhammer -
the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction
So quantum physics has dispensed with the "turning into pools of delicious melted butter" centrifugal outcome - damn - hold the popcorn!
It's a motorway. There is nothing we can do. This motorway has ruined everything."
If the alleged criminals can't find their way in...
spare a thought for the people who can't find their way out !J.G Ballard (RIP) covered this well in Concrete Island
and his last work Kingdom Come a warning to us all
- Don't drive into the Mall Stromperhaps a remake is up for grabs Lord of the Flyovers
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Admiral Crichton -
You know the drill; take the bit between your teeth.
Is that close to sit on it and rotate?
"Someday son, this awl will be yours!"
oh alright I'll kiss the drill
yrs
Wal O'Sound