Posts by Joe Wylie
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Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Theresa Whistler, for The River Boy. I hope to live long enough to find another copy.
Eeek! Been looking on & off for yonks, either no luck or hugely pricey. Just looked again on eBay, got one for 99p. Thanks Emma et al for providing the kick in the arse.
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Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to Kracklite,
Hope Mirlees
Memorable here for the remarkable Lud-in-the-Mist. Are you familiar with anything else she's written?
Another one-off author, Theresa Whistler, for The River Boy. I hope to live long enough to find another copy.
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Speaker: What I learned in Class: Should…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Still on cars and music… notice the resemblance?
Tom Robinson in particular has always sounded just like the Strawbs to me on this number.
Also TRB & Citizen Band dressed the same, while managing to stand with their feet further apart in each succeeding video. Probably something to do with attempting bogan while having been to a 'good school'.
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Speaker: What I learned in Class: Should…, in reply to ,
Definitely. And regarding Lemmy, how cool is this?
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Music-wise, Deep Purple would have to be the muthalode of most things bogan. After all, that's where the Sabs stole most of their chops from. A few days before the 1984 Queen Street riots the Monsters of the Deep
played an evening show at Western Springs. Irked by the delay in getting out of the carpark afterwards an angry attendee expressed himself in bogan fashion by performing on-the-spot wheelies of frustration.Unfortunately he winged a wheelchair-bound member of his tribe, which raised the righteous ire of the assembled masses. Again in the true bogan manner they hauled him from his vehicle and administered summary bogan justice by depriving him of his pants.
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Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to JacksonP,
Angela Carter probably had the strongest impact on me as an early reader.
Sadly I never discovered her until around a decade ago. Some of her stuff reads like backstory for something she seemed to be working up to, which only adds to the sense of her being cut off as she approached her prime. As inventive in her own way as Margaret Atwood.
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Speaker: What I learned in Class: Should…, in reply to ,
Any bogan with there salt, will have contacts with geek tendencys.
Which reminds me, where's Tom Semmens? A guy who seems to practice a form of garage anthropology on his flatmates' proletarian credentials should be cleaning up on this one.
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Up Front: Well, Read Women, in reply to BenWilson,
Early childhood trash I couldn't put down - Enid Blyton. Just in case you thought women couldn't write sexist racist homophobic stuff (most of which I can't say I noticed). No better or worse than similar period children's fiction.
Grabbed this a while back, I reckon Ronald Searle nailed her.
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Dava Sobel. Longitude and Galileo's Daughter. There are a couple of men who come close, e.g. Tim Flannery and the underrated Colin Tudge, but her knack of making epic science stories uncompromisingly accessible is about as good as that kind of thing gets for me.
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Speaker: The CERA transition that no one…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I was kinda appalled by Cecile Meier’s folding on this issue – especially in light of her impassioned plea for the freedom to express ideas and outrage earlier in the year
Thanks for making that connection. Surely one's permitted to wonder just how they went about making La Meier one of "us". At least John McCrone hasn't been "got to" yet by whatever sniffily cynical cabal decides these things when they're not compiling Chch "power lists".
From the Press's recent impassioned sighing over Simon Barnett's "dad bod" it's plain that the vacuum from Bob Parker's distant implosion still casts its hollow spell. As for the CERA communication team, do they really do anything apart from click down derogatory comments about Gerry while troughing from the same muffin mine that the Press once scolded the poor old Parkeress for helping herself to?
