Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: How long the leash on the…, in reply to Kracklite,
To wit: “…an estimated 20,000 Mittelbau-Dora forced laborers died: 9000 died from exhaustion and collapse, 350 were hanged (including 200 for sabotage), and the remainder died from disease or starvation (or were shot)”
Thanks for the reminder.
The visitor who is willing to spend extravagant sums is rarely disappointed. Micro knows the secret doors to rock passages that lead through to Dora, the prison camp next to the Mittelwerke. Each member of the party is given his own electric lantern. There is hurried, basic instruction on what to do in case of any encounter with the dead. "Remember they were always on the defensive here. When the Americans liberated Dora, the prisoners who were still alive went on a rampage after the material -- they looted, they ate and drank themselves sick. For others, Death came like the American Army, and liberated them spiritually. So they're apt to be on a spiritual rampage now. Guard your thoughts. Use the natural balance of your mind against them. They'll be coming at you off-balance, remember."
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
And thanks for Tom Lehrer, although it was hardly comforting to hear him say in an interview when visting Australia in the late 90s that he felt that his own brand of satire had long been overtaken by events.
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Hard News: How long the leash on the…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
has he tweeted about it yet?
What would he say? 'The reason women settle for those second-rate damehoods and don't clamour to be addressed as Sir is simply because they don't actually get off on it'?
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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to Sacha,
really?
"Marryatt was last night flying back to his Hamilton home for a long weekend." - Indeed he does.
and they reappointed him?
Yup, though rebel councillors successfully defeated Mayor Bob & allies' thousand-year-Reich clause.
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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
(and don’t start me on the corner city CEO, Tony Marryatt, has painted us into with his conflict of interest by being a director of this company – and he’s paid for it – ya pay someone virtually half a million a year and they get another part time job! We need exclusivity clauses for the next CEO)
And while we're on it, a little commitment wouldn't go amiss, such as actually living in the city you ostensibly serve. The seldom-seen Marryatt (here making a brief outdoor appearance in blue tie & recently shorn of his meathead moustache on the day of the CERA launch) commutes from Hamilton, and presumably pays his rates there.
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Hard News: How long the leash on the…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
...is there such a thing as praticide ?
Putting a cap in yo' ass?
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
an, er, Arbus stop…
Chchch street art…Wow, that picture's influence has been massive. Among other things, the inspiration for Graham Nash, himself no mean player in the advancement of the photographic arts, to write Teach Your Children.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Lilith __,
With bonus phallic symbol ;-)
"A stump of palm which imagination might have suited to his need."
In Maurice Shadbolt's Danger Zone it's one of the many triggers for an anti-nuclear protestor whose trip to Mururoa is haunted by hallucinations of his dead wife ;-).
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Lilith __,
Aren’t brugmansias always trees?
The few vividly coloured brugmansia/datura I've seen have been in hanging baskets, which was what impressed me so much about the one in Hebe's pic. A proper tree, and doing so well so far south.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Islander,
You want passionflower, I got. Or did have. Presumably it’s bursting into bud again right now over in Avonside, where I was forced to abandon it after Sept. 2010.
Nice datura Hebe. I’ve always fancied one like that, ever since I saw a hummingbird feeding from one on an old Attenborough TV show. For aesthetic purposes of course, not recreational.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Ross Mason,
Interesting ladder. You can picture the soon to be saved scuttling up to the roof and assuming the position, or whatever it is they do when awaiting the Rapture.
