Clive James may know plenty about making enemies (and gloating), but he knew sod all about book publishing when he wrote this

Clive James knows quite a lot about all sorts of things, but I suspect there's a fair bit of (not so gentle) urine extraction going on — not…

Bought for comedy reasons but unexpectedly good accompaniment for candlelit bathing, who knew that the late pontiff's rich basso voice praying actually goes very well with beats behind it? and I never would have known that if not for rummaging in the remainders.

Listening to the Holy Father whilst naked?…

On the other hand we found a marvellous CD featuring Pope John Paul intoning in Latin over trance music…

Anticipating what any book's print run should be is neither an art nor a science, it's at best an informed guess, and normally, little more than a punt.…

Its a slightly humbling thing for an author or artist to stumble across a signed copy of their work in a second hand bin somewhere.

I always thought it would be depressing to find great piles of your book on a dollar remainder table. Though, as Clive James [[http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/bookofmyenemy.html|once put…

Was a little bach in the middle of this garden with a huge bookshelf crammed with old books and magazines. Eating our microwave lamb roast watching movies on the tiny tv and…

Daily show is back with new shows, sans writers, but seemingly still pretty good. Normal times.

Even magazines with more humble goals than The New Zealander end up being a mirror on the world they were part of, and in ways they probably didn't expect.

My wife ended up going through a huge number of the old School Journals at one job. It was really, really…

Robyn, I *love* old magazines.

Me too. I forgot to mention that I also got three 1971 issues of Time magazine. Two of the cover stories are Apollo 15 and the NASA funding crunch, and a preview of that year's Frazier-Ali fight. Choice.

One of the coolest parts of researching…

One potter friend was completely delighted when he found one of his early coffee cups in a Sally-Army pile ten years later, he instantly bought the thing and carried it home like a rare butterfly.

This is not exactly an example of tossed-away craftsmanship or anything, but in the late…

but in seriousness. tried chiro. didn't work.

Seemed to work OK for me. Guess it depends what your problem is. At least the guy didn't spend most of the appointment ragging on every choice I'd made since birth.

I have tried a chiropractor and have a very negative attitude towards…

You might need to take off the duck-tinted spectacles.

mmmmm.... duck.....

but in seriousness. tried chiro. didn't work. sit-ups? a bloody treat.

and

he instantly bought the thing and carried it home like a rare butterfly.

awesome... i know potters, and they love their work even when they hate it.

i can see you're typing something there ben, but all i'm reading is "quack, quackquack, quack, quackquackquack"

You might need to take off the duck-tinted spectacles.

Well, to the street kid culture represented by those of us who comment on PA it is a bad thing.

No wonder my comments…

Never tried a chiropractor, but I do rate osteopathy and acupuncture.

I have tried a chiropractor and have a very negative attitude towards them. Too invasive, too much cracking.

No. No. No.

Osteopathy may well seem quack-esque to many but I swear by it. Incidentally they also tend to give…

I like buying old books on the island.

Me too. When I was last there I found a dinky little cookery book, circa 1974, with recipes for young people who might have found themselves cooking for the first time. Everything looked like hospital food.

I also like old magazines -…

But these are people petitioning for admission to the establishment, not celebrating street culture.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Well, to the street kid culture represented by those of us who comment on PA it is a bad thing. Just so...passé.

We are tired of the whingers who fail to contribute then moan about the state of the nation

"Pot", "kettle", "black", etc.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Quite favourable, you will be alarmed to hear.<

outraged... extremely outraged.

but then, if someone is stupid enough to constantly part with money to "repair" a back they could fix themselves with better posture and more exercise, then so be it.

one doesn't want to piss off the medical lobby,…

chiropractic is to back care what tyre black is to automotive repair.

Does that mean you get a free chiropractic session whenever you take yourself in for a yearly medical ?

Never tried a chiropractor, but I do rate osteopathy and acupuncture.

And … we had a Commission of Inquiry into Chiropratic?

i'd like to know the outcome of that.

Quite favourable, you will be alarmed to hear.

And … we had a Commission of Inquiry into Chiropratic?

i'd like to know the outcome of that. they should have banned that particular bit of quackery years ago.

chiropractic is to back care what tyre black is to automotive repair.