February 2010
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“What happens to beasts will happen to man. All things are connected. If the...”
– Chief Seattle, 1884
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“There is only one healing force, and that is nature.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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The Royston Vasey Abandoned Building Society
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The Royston Vasey Abandoned Building Society (Expedition Leader Kahlila Gibran ) had another strange experience when we were photgraphing the inside of the Old Glue Factory. This young lady started to materialise before our very eyes. She had got as far as this when she stopped. “Bugger” she said “I’ve run out of ectoplasm” We had still have no idea what Kahlila was getting us into...
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“It’s amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person...”
– Doris Lessing (via jscottgrand)
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'Jesus Christ at the front door'
Bloody Ricki’s arrived back in town — he went to see Rud the other day. Rud thought it was Jesus Christ at the front door. And he’s still going on about “cats” every second word, and tripping. Gets to be a bore, actual. He’s the freest hippie you’d find round here, and that’s cool, but you get sick of it cos he thinks he’s getting so much more...
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Job interviews
I’ve been in Dunedin and had a really good interview at The Evening Star. They offered me a J2 ($60 a week), which is a really good promotion. I won’t be on a J2 for two years yet at The Southland Times. Realised afterwards I went through the interview with my jersey inside out — labels and seams sticking out everywhere.
Had an interview at The Otago Daily Times as well and...
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Blood all over the place!
A printer out the back at work got his hand caught in the proof press and was rushed to hospital. No-one seemed overconcerned — Tom (the foreman) said it was the 12th in four years.
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A beautiful Sunday
Carol, Mike, P and I set off this afternoon to a river, solitary and peaceful. We sat and sang folk songs, the wind tearing through our hair and the river flowing past us. When the sun went down we lit a fire and sat around it, like gypsies, no-one in sight, only the river and miles of hills and trees. And tonight Leonard Cohen was on TV. E-n-t-r-a-n-c-e-d-!
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My idea of a party . . .
… is sitting on the floor in a big circle, brilliant music, some grass or acid for those who need it, and all cool PERCEPTIVE people.
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Tribes (looking for one)
Had a dream that Ricki turned up to see me with his hair cut short. Looked terrible; I couldn’t understand him any more.
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I am reading an encyclopedia about religious sects.
Like the Abraham Men — lunatic beggars who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries, wore a special badge and were allowed to beg
… and the Amazons of Greek legend — a tribe of women...
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Signs MPs are frighteningly ignorant
Mike and I had to cover this big dinner and the MPs there got completely pissed.
Our local MP said to me he’d seen painted on the Wellington Railway Station this morning — and asked what it meant.
We got the picture of the year too, man, but couldn’t publish it — the mayor sliding down a bannister, out of his brain.
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Down the tunnel of time
Bought Colosseum LP Daughter of Time. Chris Farlowe … you have to hear him, man!
Sox (my cat) is dreaming now. He woke up with a start when Dick Hextall-Smith said “Run swiftly down the tunnel of time”!
Also bought a Ravi Shankar LP which is unreal, man. Just improvisations, most of it, and it’s so BEAUTIFUL.
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