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hamishm

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:42:21 +1200

hubba hubba

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:41:03 +1200

crikey, i didn't see the pictures the first time around.
i may be busy... for a while.

fyi i resemble Little Lamb (only not so much hair obviously).

that Chewy eh...

merc

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:37:41 +1200

Hedgehogs for days without end...

hamishm

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:35:48 +1200

And then the "Group" photos!!! Nearly melted my monitor. Wheek wheek!!

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:28:59 +1200

Joe that second one "wheeking" was filthy!
the first one was just sleazy.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:23:57 +1200

I prefer the large squeaks of pleasure...pigs go on for three minutes you know. I don't know about guniea pigs though

Here you go:
http://www.cavycam.com/audio.htm

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:19:23 +1200

would that it were

Kadife Blue

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:11:28 +1200

I prefer the large squeaks of pleasure...pigs go on for three minutes you know. I don't know about guniea pigs though

hamishm

Mon, 07 May 2007 14:46:21 +1200

The sword fish is most beautiful aeroplane while the Firefly does have that begginers Spitfire look about it. I have a screen saver picter of one coming in to land with flaps down etc. it is as pretty as a Gannet.
Ah little squeaks of pleasure with ones beloved, a…

merc

Mon, 07 May 2007 14:28:09 +1200

Just to sniff the air with our beloved, on a hilltop, makes the Gods turn their gaze and the Fates unclamp their fierce eye, if only for a brief moment, and let us forget the stars and remember the worm, fondly, for we have seen beyond days.
Dora Guinea is…

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 14:15:46 +1200

Fairey did some unusual aircraft and indeed the Battle (Fairey Battle, pfnarr pfnarr) was a flying coffin when it was put up against opponents with next generation machines. The Firefly was quite neat, you can clearly see the Supermarine association.

__Not sure it is all that clever to…

hamishm

Mon, 07 May 2007 14:12:47 +1200

We saw a pair of Oyster- catchers earlier this year just South of Tauranga. I was very impressed with how they opened shells with just a flick. We found out (in the Big Boys Book of Birds) that they were Common Oyster- catchers but I did like their colours.
Grey…

Rob Stowell

Mon, 07 May 2007 14:00:30 +1200

Fairey Battle is a funny enough name for a warplane; the "fairy battler" would be a classic....
Seabirds yahoo! No gannets in our neck of the estuary (nor surf). Still pleased with the nesting black-backs, 'cos every year we get to watch the young (adolescents?) take gawky flying lessons, lurching…

hamishm

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:48:38 +1200

Not sure it is all that clever to name a carrier based plane after a bird that dives into the sea alot!
Fairey did some funny old planes. I like the look of the Battle but I think it was rather a flying coffin.

merc

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:40:21 +1200

Each one is given only as much as the heart can bear. Think not of the heart that suffers in silence, feel then of the split that made it so.

FATE.

Only the sublime
inward path
guards oblivion.

In the heart
straits lead
to life within.

Outer terror
and drudgery…

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:36:18 +1200

how's this for an eccentric looking beast, the Fairey Gannet. counter-rotating props.

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:31:15 +1200

thanks E.
yeah watching them dive is really cool but i'd keep my distance with those beaks, they look pretty effective.

hamishm

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:27:02 +1200

I am also a Gannet fan. I cannot help but feel that there is a little counter in the back of their skull, that clicks over after each dive until it gets to "Default".
I love it when they spot their prey from high up and peel over into the…

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:25:32 +1200

hopefully the atmosphere was moist enough that the croissant turned soggy pretty quickly. besides, i've seen seagulls chug back all sorts of dry stuff and they seem to be ok, if not a bit dyspeptic for a while.

knowing those rajas the mollymawk eye was probably more fitting.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:17:57 +1200

albatrosses, also single pairers, they have such compassionate eyes. unlike the mollymawk in my opinion, who totally look like albatross turned acid freaks.

Sir Charles Brooke, the second "White Rajah" of Sarawak, lost an eye in a foxhunting accident during a visit to England in 1912. One day when walking…

Kadife Blue

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:15:45 +1200

perhaps it will choke on the dried croissant then

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:09:37 +1200

its heart won't be allowed to break K

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 12:45:13 +1200

the monks would have been especially thilled by the photo then.
i love gannets as least as much as seaguls. and albatrosses, also single pairers, they have such compassionate eyes. unlike the mollymawk in my opinion, who totally look like albatross turned acid freaks.
there are also neat aircraft that…

Kadife Blue

Mon, 07 May 2007 12:40:47 +1200

A gull, stoned by a small boy, dies on a shimmering bed of sand. A gull, knowing that it's heart is breaking, flies out over the sea to sink in its final embrace.

The gull could not forsee the stone but it could feel the break in its heart. But…

merc

Mon, 07 May 2007 12:27:04 +1200

I watch the Gannets where I live, when I am out to sea, floating. Gannets mate for life. They hit the water at round 70km's per hour, evetually they go blind. Their first flight can be to Australia, I have seen many first off the cliff flights. My Gannets turfed…

Riddley Walker

Mon, 07 May 2007 11:51:18 +1200

m, I saw seagulls on my travels. Young and old black-backs wondering in a field of grass, and a red-beak with its head and neck soundly planted in a sand dune. It looked like it had just dived in and its wings were still in a perfect W. My companion…

merc

Fri, 04 May 2007 18:30:01 +1200

R. we get rich, they shoot us, all we have is now.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 04 May 2007 16:55:49 +1200

passed 10k. wait till they find out we even coin new usages.
rich we'll be! RICH!

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 23:12:14 +1200

m head is excellent. you have a talent.
for some reason i always seem to like the last stanza of your poems best.
i have camped out in areas with lots of roaming babs, and had to walk past a few troops. they are really scarey beasts, definitely ape-dogs. when…

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 22:29:48 +1200

Yes, I got that from the sea. 10,000, yes I saw that, it is probably just us. I have posted Merc head, it is after a Baboon skull I saw in part, Baboons have skulls like dogs and they murder each other and 2001 A Space Odyssey, shaved apes, machine…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 22:14:18 +1200

nicely said. a bit like the Sea.

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 22:10:05 +1200

It was to the obituary of Czeslaw Milosz, a poet I respect who worked with Robert Hass, the American Poet Laureate, a nice man.
I will of course show my stuff, once you have sent poems into this weary world, paintings are nothing. I will put Merc Head on teh…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 22:08:40 +1200

btw, this thread is approaching 10,000 views, although half of those are probably yours and mine.

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 21:56:44 +1200

painting the same thing over and over is a good thing to do. that's what we're all doing anyway isn't it?
you should put up a portfolio whether you want to sell or not. unless you don't want to show your work; it's your work, do with it what you…

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 20:00:41 +1200

Whoops duffed that, last time I did that it auto-majically healed, thank you.
BTW, Robert Hass has one of my books.

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 19:55:26 +1200

This
Polish Poet
It's OK, the slaughter, they are already dead.

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 19:34:26 +1200

yes Poland has such an unbearably sad history, and every Pole i've met has been such a nice person. the best logicians are always Poles, some say it's because of their diabolically complex and precise language (Polish apparently has something like 22 articles; we have definite 'a' and indefinite 'the').…

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 19:29:29 +1200

Copy of Head predates Sword Head but for some reason I posted it, all the heads are the same anyway, I only paint one painting over and over really, my weird head. Copy of Head is 30" x 30" and very detailed.
Paste and I are working on a portfolio…

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 19:23:42 +1200

Yes, you become part of the food chain, no need to up the ante...I have my own stories...I respect them, sea lions though, eck.
Falling is no fun, falling with extreme predujice (the horse comes back to bite you) is nasty. Best riding in the world here, no question. I…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 19:17:37 +1200

btw, 'Copy of Head" looks excellent. new?

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 19:08:46 +1200

them there Poles had some fine cavalry. not particularly effective against Panzers sadly, but mighty fine nonetheless.

last time i was riding we were at full gallop over the crest of a hill, only to find a fence just over the other side. that was my 3rd serious concussion.

__when…

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 18:15:37 +1200

I put my horse riding on hold, for now, I ride occasionally to keep it up, but seriously, when I'm surfing I don't like smelling of horse, or dog. I really got muntered over The Horseman thang though, I have some good stories, (I used to ride a horse to…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 17:57:37 +1200

go on then

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 13:57:08 +1200

So am I.

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 12:27:18 +1200

they are an amazing people. a Bedou rider armed to the teeth at a gallop is a stunning sight.

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 11:56:02 +1200

Once I thought I was Bedou.

Riddley Walker

Thu, 03 May 2007 11:32:31 +1200

i prefer the idea of heaven below, it makes sense when it's 5 degrees below zero on the surface.
you know for the Bedouin, Heaven is above, but it is always overcast, and thus not too hot.

merc

Thu, 03 May 2007 08:12:37 +1200

Then there was that uppity Cherman, Martin Luther. Wotan, does Wotan exist in the Christian God, or indeed in the breast of Cherman's. I must confess to a morbid black forest wish to die in battle in order to gain entry into Valhalla, however suppressed.
As above, so below.

Riddley Walker

Wed, 02 May 2007 23:49:47 +1200

interesting essay m. we are indeed frightened of the thanatic in this world.
i would have said Wotan was more of a Gods God but i take your point. the Wotan Clan. and i see the Antinomists originated in C16th Chermany, around the same time as the Rosicrucians, whose symbol…

merc

Wed, 02 May 2007 21:31:34 +1200

Small voice...the snake is the cthonic God.
Now that Wotan is a God's God.

Riddley Walker

Wed, 02 May 2007 21:04:35 +1200

that little Austrian would have said he was reclaiming it. the terroritory was Bohemia. what i do have from my grandparents are some rather disturbing car badges that were all the rage in Chermany in the late 30s, but that's also another story. did most of the cross-country in the…

merc

Wed, 02 May 2007 20:30:50 +1200

The Sudetenland, I must research, didn't the little moustach invade? I still have my Grandmothers ski medals including someone elses (her Mother's?) from Germany, great fonts. My Granfather used to turn ski's in the bath and use them or rent them out, they ski'd the Ruahine's, I have strange photos…

Riddley Walker

Wed, 02 May 2007 19:33:10 +1200

i guess preparing poetry earlier is always good if there's a risk of burning and you have hungry readers arriving.

my grandmother was a Sudetenlaender although cruise ships were more her thing. a champion ski-jumping nana is quite something. she must've been cool. i once visited the olympic jump in…

merc

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:41:52 +1200

I cheated and had the books previously prepared, there's nothing like poetry getting in the way of a decent assumpting. My maternal Grandmother (dead) was a ski jump champion (alpine Cherman's we), personally surfing got me and then there was my Mother's accident, on the slopes, all leading to a…

Riddley Walker

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:25:23 +1200

two books of poetry is good going. and there were a lot of 3s about. so summing to 5 is not surprising i guess.
sentimentally, i was looking for clips of The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner. those slo-mo shots of the ski-jumper are so beautiful to me.

merc

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:07:13 +1200

Twas the literacy for Guinea Pigs got me, and that Handel clip made me mawf with joy all over my bad dual heads. You can PM me of course and there's a little photo on teh blog for you. Did I rise on the 3rd day? Oh my God I…

Riddley Walker

Tue, 01 May 2007 14:50:25 +1200

hooray! He Has Riz

merc

Tue, 01 May 2007 14:21:33 +1200

I am returned, fashioned after the eternal return, post 666, I am now Androgyne and I have seen Antinomy.
Nobody Important – I am returned and you Yeah Righted me...let me say, I am returned like McArthur, better than before, stronger and with a clean pipe and Aviators. The things…

Riddley Walker

Tue, 01 May 2007 10:30:12 +1200

i miss SwordHead guy

merc

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:54:03 +1200

It's a Fight Club thing.

Riddley Walker

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:26:28 +1200

seems to me like a lot of the time rugby has little to do with rugby either.

merc

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:23:01 +1200

You are welcome, De Chardin's theory of the Noosphere is a thriller but edges towards flakey, IMHO.
BTW, really, rugby has little to do with testosterone.

hamishm

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:27:52 +1200

but then maybe gender is a meme.

We might be just a way for hormone molecules to get around and the various side affects that have on our bodies might be no more than side affects. It is an interesting idea, though I feel it might cause rugby club after-match…

merc

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:24:51 +1200

If you ascribe to the Tao, the hard will always be overcome by the soft. Yes woman can produce little men and men can't, but then maybe gender is a meme.
Language cannot be a meme, because you need language to describe it, therefore, language used to describe language would…

hamishm

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:11:00 +1200

I think it might be the power thing again. Men could not make people , yes their output was needed but if the seed fell on barren ground, well that was it. If you could subjugate the means of production (me showing off), you would have some power.

I suppose…

merc

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:59:01 +1200

I ascribe to the Meat For Sex theory. but I couldn't explain it here. There is another book called The Goddess Versus The Alphabet not nearly as funny as Meat For Sex but less open to derision.
Laurie, I just loved her goggles and swim hat and that she dressed…

Riddley Walker

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:50:14 +1200

fabulous Laurie Anderson

another magnificent siren deity.

That's how it is

yes
and yes Eusa.

Riddley Walker

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:46:48 +1200

verily, far reaching consequences indeed.
have you ever wondered how much the pejoration of female deities stems from males' fear of feminine sexuality with specific regard to their ability to 'lure', mermaid-like, even the most powerful men to behaving apparently irrationally?

hamishm

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:45:52 +1200

Synchronicity as the fabulous Laurie Anderson sees it.

And Sharkey says: All of nature talks to me. If I could just figure out what it was trying to tell me. That's how it is.

merc

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:33:47 +1200

And Astarte, otherwise Venus, the 8 pointed star that tracks it's own shape through the heavens (the only one to do so, round the Sun, hence the Sun symbol inside The Star of Astarte (linked to Iraq), she is also notably the only female deity etc. I have indeed studied…

Riddley Walker

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:18:31 +1200

now i've left my notes to myself on this elsewhere.
but in the meantime m, you may be interested in the similarities between Jung's characterization of Mary and the Hindu tradition regarding Shakti, and more specifically Kali (which in turn relates to Artemis IMHO, who btw…

merc

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:41:49 +1200

There's enough there to get you into a whole mess of trouble with every kind of conservative group known to mankind, and it's not even flakey stuff.
Pauli and Jung posited Synchronicity as the fourth acausal principle, and with credentials like what Pauli has, you know it's going to be…

Riddley Walker

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:22:41 +1200

interesting material m.
been called in for reprogramming, need to consider reply.
back soon.

merc

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:53:30 +1200

And this guy Teillhard de Chardin whom I read as a child, due to my very liberal Catholic step-Grandmother. Suffice it to say Pere Pierre was an excommunicted Jesuit (and paleontologist), so Mr Carl Jung was a sitter for my catholic tastes.

merc

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:36:44 +1200

Crikey indeed, and this well after Jung was dead. Jung also did some work with Wolfgang Pauli.

hamishm

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:28:05 +1200

"One wonders whether Jung's interest in the paranormal and his participation in seances had paid off in unexpected ways." – Carl Gustav Jung: Enemy of the Church

What else can one say but Crikey!

merc

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:22:45 +1200

and this

merc

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:05:05 +1200

this

Riddley Walker

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:32:43 +1200

ok, well as we've passed 22 and 777 of clearly off, how about 22 to the power of 4?
it goes back to the quarternity.

hamishm

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:20:11 +1200

Well, you know,everyone makes there own lifestyle choices but I'm really unsure about the 777 group. I'm just sayin'.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:18:17 +1200

why is the trinity unbalanced?
and is not the 4th trump labelled the 3rd?

merc

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:56:42 +1200

7 + 7 + 7 = 21
That is 2 + 1 = 3
3 is the Trinity, and that is unbalanced, we need the Quarternity,
3 + 1 = 4
4 is one (the Christ).
The axiom of Maria Prophetissa

Riddley Walker

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:37:23 +1200

prego. funny how paying someone to do something can put them off doing it.
actually i'm quite glad kiwibog is the sewer it is, long may it continue that way. the showing up the right in an advertsing campaign... $500k... getting them to do it themselves ... priceless.
what was…

merc

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:20:07 +1200

By way of a snmall explanation, I saw this thread had been read over 6000 times, I thought good grief, we've become a sitcom! Also, I read on DPF two comment regarding Mr Anderton's (feck I mis-spelled his name on other thread...) parenting skills, it was Burt and some other…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:58:55 +1200

umm, don't make it too long m

Riddley Walker

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:49:16 +1200

cool m. in the end we have to focus on the RW aspects of life from time to time. (damn its eyes!) and if that involves creative output and tending to your dearest well, that's not too bad is it.
indeed the crisis of success is much more dangerous than…

merc

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:34:05 +1200

Yes very true, although my very repressive education actually (later on) steeled my mettle, made me more determined, you know repression is a hell of a stimulant, and luck, I don't know why some of the most genius are tortured, it's said the Gods get jealous, or they bestow too…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:19:10 +1200

yeah, amen to that. it certainly is a rare blessing to be able to live a life you like. although having said that it also takes a certain amount of courage and wit. actually it seems to take a lot of people a lot of courage to actually let themselves…

merc

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:55:40 +1200

"It takes a while just to find self. You have a certain courage when you’re young. But the thing is that you haven’t learned, when you’re younger, to accept defeats – like the young boy who constantly loses games of chess and constantly asks ‘Want another game?’. As you get…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:46:32 +1200

my pleasure m. trusttum's work and life seem pretty cool to me.
i love clairmont's stuff, but i used to know his daughter – she was an amazing, interesting, strong person, but i think really hurt by her dad's illness and death. i know it's silly to do so, but…

merc

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:23:40 +1200

I should pay you for facilitaing me finding this,
http://www.trusttum.co.nz/comment/interview.htm

merc

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:11:52 +1200

Go Philip Trusttum, he was unknown to me, now that's what I call doing it. It takes great courage to be fully who you are and leap off the edge of reason into the void of creation. You Mr Riddley have given me some dangerous ideas and I thank you.

merc

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:54:37 +1200

Stick with it. I have lived my whole life around that question and I know what works for me. Plus you must realize where the others are coming from, Simon was an agent in the music business and RB is a journo (to squish it up, they are much more…

Riddley Walker

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:33:26 +1200

yes well it looks like you can paint to me so you were right to assume you could. i like philip trusttum's stuff too.
the issue of intrinsic vs extrinsic reward is an interesting one, i need to argue it a bit better on the other thread, but i guess…

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:26:26 +1200

I didn't know about Tony de Lautour until you said, he's pretty good.
http://www.nz-artists.co.nz/delautour/delautour.htm#bio
Christchurch produces some quite dark painters.

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:59:08 +1200

Rockkkk awnnnnnaaaaa, that means alot to me, thanks. They are heroes of mine, especially Clairemont, though it's my twelf painting or so and is me, I also use a weird technique there just to keep the franchise alive. Originally a poet and always a poet I paint because I finally…

Riddley Walker

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:19:24 +1200

i like the painting m, it reminds me of someone's work but i can't put my finger on it. kind of mccahon meets de lautour with the uneasiness of clairmont.

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:41:22 +1200

Oh and Werner has a site, http://www.wernerherzog.com/

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:38:29 +1200

I know that bastard and he's trickier than a hampster on furlough who finds a sugar sack and a ginger cat.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both…

hamishm

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:36:58 +1200

I appear to have quoted myself while writing the post. Sorry about the eddy in space and time this will cause.

hamishm

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:35:16 +1200

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Best_Fiend

yeah, I have to see that some time.
Aquirre is a great movie as is Fitzcarraldo but they story behind them must be marvellous.
Wiki has just made me realise how little I know about Herzog, blimey I got a bit of catch-up to do.

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:28:54 +1200

No catch except, and this was freaky, Juha pm'd me to say the "a" was missing. I thought to myself, dude, that's obscure geek sh*t, but then he pm'd back to explain that our Archive isn't working (because we slackly refuse to upgrade our blog). So anyhoo, today I uploaded…

Riddley Walker

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:00:29 +1200

doh! ok, i might try that then.

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:59:36 +1200

Bless Wkipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Best_Fiend

Heather Gaye

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:54:04 +1200

hope RB gives the OK because Sword Head is a doozy

umm...we could just click on the linky in your member details, right? Is there a catch?

Riddley Walker

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:42:12 +1200

curious and curiouser mr kinski. also, wo ist es?

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:10:40 +1200

You are staring to communicate in little parses Agent R, but I can read you mind...yes I have an associate of far greater erudition and talent than myself, he is Werner and I am Klaus, his name, Marvin Pastetaster, in keeping with our bloglesshoplessness, Paste rarely posts, and Burg, the…

Riddley Walker

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:50:35 +1200

link to my shared blog

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:11:10 +1200

I can highly recommend Aeon and Answer To Job, by Carl Jung. McCahon also painting Christ's last words, however they differ, because according to John, Christ did not say, "Father, why hast thou foresaken me." He said, "It is over."

hamishm

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:03:54 +1200

Golly jingoes, merc. That is interesting. I read some more about at wiki here. Boy if we'd had this in Religious Education at primary school instead of all that being nice to people stuff...

merc

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:03:18 +1200

RB is it OK to link to my shared blog where Sword Head can be viewed?

merc

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:39:59 +1200

My gravytar is a painting I did, 24x36 inches called, Sword Head...cash money wn't git it...

merc

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:37:28 +1200

Teh bible,
Matt. 10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to set a man against his father,
and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her…

Riddley Walker

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:28:46 +1200

from whence this quote m'lord?

merc

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:23:09 +1200

Actual quote, except for the hobby bit, dude was a fighter and a lover.

Riddley Walker

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:19:37 +1200

i always thought jesus didn't like us doing that sort of thing?

merc

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:35:13 +1200

I come bearing a hobby sword, Jesus.

Riddley Walker

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:29:25 +1200

that wouldn't be a hobby sword would it?

merc

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:27:58 +1200

...because it's neato and the big bearded guy hates it.

merc

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:27:18 +1200

I'm not nice, I am merc! However I appreciate your comment, I may still however unleash the shiny sword of light...

Riddley Walker

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:25:33 +1200

nice

merc

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:22:58 +1200

Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads, without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
William Blake.

Riddley Walker

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:05:42 +1200

there is only the travelling on the paths that have heart

andrew llewellyn

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:05:16 +1200

about how unfair and nasty their opponents can be.

The dreaded "ad hominem" defense.

merc

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:41:37 +1200

It is the work of the evil Brujo, Juan Mateus.

Riddley Walker

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:01:26 +1200

I'm going to take that as a compliment

As long as you don't take it as a supplement

that's quite funny.
but yes you're right deborah, a moment's weakness on my behalf. well, obviously i have them all the time but that one just coincided with hitting the Post button.…

81stcolumn

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:53:50 +1200

Sorry folks I think the use of the preview button would have helped here.

81stcolumn

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:49:14 +1200

Haven't you seen the nice new paper ones....that you have to pay for ?

Otherwise when you talk as much st as I do it should be of no surprise that I can breathe from my AE

Juha Saarinen

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:05:28 +1200

Yes it does. Airtight New World variety preferred of course. Let's see how you talk your way out of that one.

81stcolumn

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:03:09 +1200

Mmmmmm does saying it to their face with a bag over my head count ?

Sam F

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:47:50 +1200

I see Whaleoil has published his own amended version.

"3. I'll write whatever I want without any regard to whether I'll say it in person or even back it up if questioned."

You can't accuse the man of acting inconsistently with his professed morals.

Juha Saarinen

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:41:53 +1200

As long as you don't take it as a supplement.

Deborah

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:39:25 +1200

Snob.

I'm going to take that as a compliment.

Juha Saarinen

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:37:08 +1200

Snob.

Deborah

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:35:30 +1200

Dud4Jaundice

Very droll, but not really the level we aspire to here....

merc

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:06:05 +1200

Heh, PAworld is un-unravellable. I used to drive a ute, best cars ever, a red one, we called it The Red Baron, my brother had a blue one, I'm not saying we were good ol boys or anything, I have lived many syndromes.
Bruce kept it quiet that he was…

Riddley Walker

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:24:16 +1200

remembering that shirt does hurt.
i liked Utz best of all chatwin's novels, but then i knew one of the characters, which made it more interesting i guess. Haven't read Newby but i hear it is good so i might try that soon. you're right, this is the wrong thread.…

merc

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:03:53 +1200

There is no syndrome I have left unturned. XU1's pretty? At least you can mention the shirt, I had a baby pink sweatshirt for a time, it hurts to remember that.
I read Songlines, I like The Dreamtime. Bruce had a kind of sad life and end.
Eric Newby's Travellers…

Riddley Walker

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:46:28 +1200

Clean as you go

yes but that really is going to extremes, it's like Reverse Howard Hughs Syndrome.

yeah those XU1s were pretty and fast but drove and ran like crap.
i wore a grey and baby pink shirt in the early 80s. i'm afraid it was not remotely…

merc

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:38:48 +1200

Clean as you go we say. Pink XU1, perfect for Newmarket in 1978, such a strange car (un-drivable at speed), such strange times. I wear pink boardshorts on occasion, in a manly way, you know.
The nameless are so, because as you know a name is sacred and can evoke…

Riddley Walker

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:12:12 +1200

the nameless

Hobby Hose Enthusiast or Dud4Jaundice?

Riddley Walker

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:06:36 +1200

I see some people still blanch at the blue arm

what, they had you unblocking toilets? that doesn't sound incident-free.

So the affair between Sam Loover and Lady Penelope was just a rumour

yeah, that was just a smoke screen for the Joe 90 thing, which as merc alludes…

merc

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:02:43 +1200

To some, Lady Penelope is beyond reproach, indeed anyone with a pink car is. I used to know a person with a pink GTR XU1, and then a Capri (German). She had them both painted hot pink. Respect.

81stcolumn

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:54:08 +1200

So the affair between Sam Loover and Lady Penelope was just a rumour ?

merc

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:27:32 +1200

But we got invited to a real party, with other people, it was joy! I didn't even stuff up, no incidents, though I see some people still blanch at the blue arm (Hunter S and Ralph Steadman, The Curse of Lono).
BTW, I don't like where you're taking this Hartnell…

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:00:45 +1200

I think Gordon may have been a bit dim, because you know, the puppet gene pool didn't stretch that far in the Thunderbirds... but GWB2 got the part

well now it's funny you say that because David Hartnell told me that Gordon was the love child of Flash Gordon and…

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:17:13 +1200

Interesting question, what with nature vs nurture being such a hot topic these days. However, and this may be controversial, was Brains, well, that brainy, really?
I think Gordon may have been a bit dim, because you know, the puppet gene pool didn't stretch that far in the Thunderbirds.
Virgil…

hamishm

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:39:02 +1200

If Brains was the father why was Gordon so...less than brilliant? Mind you I think Virgil could have been lying, he's about hit bottom, in pron movies.
I must go and do my bit for the economy and buy lettuce.

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:26:26 +1200

That's brilliant, however, I think you'll find Brain's was the Father, he swapped heads with Poppa Tracy, cunning little puppet.
The tell all was lost in the BBC fire, some say Parker lit it.

hamishm

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:22:20 +1200

Sort of a shack shaped thing. It was piloted by Gordon Tracy, love child of Lady Penelope and Poppa Tracy according to Virgils tell-all autobiography "No Strings Attached". He was on Newstalk ZB overnight.

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:19:37 +1200

Damn, see, it was Thunderbird 2 with the legs, I have the photo and all...I guess I'm finished now, over, gone...I could have been somebody you know...
I'm starting over with an alias like BarkinBoyChops and I'm going to post on Kiwiblog, yeah, I feel good again now boys!

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:10:22 +1200

it was like, a rock lobster – that came out of a short fat green B52

hamishm

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:01:18 +1200

More magical powers could be dangerous.
Thunderbird 4 is the going under water one. Why did it have legs? For shallow water?

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:00:22 +1200

yeah me too. and if only i'd started seeing tree frogs before those PJs i might've still had a chance.

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:57:21 +1200

If only I had those PJ's before I lost the legs off Thunderbird 4.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:45:43 +1200

Order your precaution today

OMG!
Everyone, IT'S ARRIVED... The Rapture is here!

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:44:20 +1200

How long you been seeing these tree frogs?

hamishm

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:42:42 +1200

Order your precaution today!!

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:29:32 +1200

one needs to take precautions against fanatics

hamishm

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:25:31 +1200

You will invoke the wrath of God.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:25:21 +1200

there really is nothing quite like the sound of a gaggle of iroquoi, or the feeling they give in your special area when you're riding in one. that alone is wagnerian enough for me.

Aguirre has a very attractive daughter.

Uptight proto-psych guy: "What is the logical syllogism to determine…

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:10:45 +1200

Yes, the tingling, you will need to find your spot, sit there and wait for the chopper, it has an 8'6 Yater Spoon attached to the side of it and will be playing Ride of the Valkeries.
Kurtz has...taken the ox. Your next mission, or maybe Richard's is to get…

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:00:50 +1200

ooowwww, the noticing is hurting my Special Area

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:49:49 +1200

Now now Agent Riddley, de-nial is the 51st state remember. The next thing you will start to notice is that Super Markets never are.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:47:57 +1200

i didn't mudgeon anything

Juha Saarinen

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:36:36 +1200

Ewwww....

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:28:37 +1200

You're getting cummudgeon is all.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:26:33 +1200

ok but let's copyleft THEATRE.
yesterday at the service station i wanted to say SERVICE STATION.
i think i may be on to something.

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:21:19 +1200

Heh, we setup MySideBias with only one post, THEATRE! No-one can comment and we get the grant, OK?
Che, I am from the Mount and yes I understand, I had the same when I heard, There's No Sex In Their Violence, then, Calm Like A Bomb.

Juha Saarinen

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:07:43 +1200

Good point. Needs to have people who go beyond the Fairfax-owned stuff as well.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:28:41 +1200

a new spatial networking site called MySideBias

good title but it might not fly if it's used by people who, like, think about stuff. and stuff.

Che Tibby

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:06:09 +1200

ahem.. [clears throat]

"head like a hole!
black as your soul!
i'd rather die!
than give you control!
bow down before the one you serve,
you're gunna get what you deserve..."

saw that played to an audience at a gig at takirua depot back in 1990.

a few hundred people…

Juha Saarinen

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:03:59 +1200

I'm setting up a new spatial networking site called MySideBias. I trust you will join.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:03:17 +1200

and for the Little Austrian himself... "why do birds, suddenly appear... everytime, you are near..."

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:56:48 +1200

hehe, i think their imaginary persecutors are already giving them what they deserve.
they need soothing with 'we'll build a world of our own...' and 'i used to be much older then, i'm younger than that now'.

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:53:03 +1200

Can you imagine linking that to kiwiblog...heads exploding...Head Like A Hole, bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve...

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:49:26 +1200

well Anger is an Energy, as the song goes.

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:27:31 +1200

It's a long wade, but rewarding, if only to feel the MySide bias bile rising.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:19:05 +1200

great article m

merc

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:09:31 +1200

For now, all is as it should be, except this, confirming my own pop analysis, http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00200.htm (or hit the Scoop link to the right there on the PAS homepage).
Not so much a father as a Mother.

Riddley Walker

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:48:34 +1200

well hamish our thunderbird toys and hobby hoses were made of gravel mind.

i had a Man From Uncle 'journal' i think they called them, sort of a hardcover magazine for kids.

btw andrew, look out for father merc, he's a planning to bring you in.

Rachel

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:32:43 +1200

The Baubles of Office weighs in at 600pgs, however, and by all accounts not as revealing as previous election campaign notes.

andrew llewellyn

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:19:50 +1200

"snap spidey. but gardening isn't strange... why, it's natural even"

Which brings us back to hobby hose restrictions...

Why was the Thunderbirds film so lame?

Made by people who didn't know, and didn't care.

BTW – what I REALLY wanted, but never got, was a Man From Uncle Spy Kit…

hamishm

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:34:59 +1200

"Course we had it tough and never had no Thunderbirds toys, had to make our own enema tubes. But we were happy.

Why was the Thunderbirds film so lame? One could no longer see the strings on the actors but the dialogue was substantially the same.

And finally, isn't the…

Span .

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:24:09 +1200

See I like how the PAS threads go all silly (in a good way) when they get really long, rather than all abusive (in a bad way). It's All Good.

merc

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:12:08 +1200

Boy Genius, phew. VUP, now why would they publish that? More grants go that way than...must-stop-the-bitterness.
Punctuation is crucial. And yes, kiwibloggers are special, where do they get the intel?

Riddley Walker

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:33:52 +1200

the chilling observation that blog commentators actually represent an unusually well-informed segment of the voting population

yes indeed the respondents of kiwiblog are fabulously well-informed

Riddley Walker

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:32:03 +1200

snap spidey. but gardening isn't strange... why, it's natural even

Victoria University Press’ anthology of election 2005 analysis which notes of bloggers sounds interesting Rachel, will keep an eye out. any online refs?

Rachel

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:05:09 +1200

Just to revert to the topic (sort of) I enjoy the civility here, though as a blog comments virgin, its also a bit intimidating. I suspect it might be easier to begin as an anonymous ranter… I have been diverted by the fact that the (mostly) correct spelling and punctuation…

merc

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:07:21 +1200

Well that's fine, we all need those private moments, mine are becoming stranger as I get older, like gardening.

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:52:49 +1200

10-4 good buddy. Never mind the hoses, here's the Riddley.

Riddley Walker

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:30:39 +1200

i found it when i was um doing 'stuff' with a mirror and my paris hilton hobby hose.

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:09:36 +1200

His roving eye tends to catch you as you gravitate towards the floor during Heimlich manoeuvres.

merc

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:05:09 +1200

We'll let the Commitee decide that eh?
BTW, how did you find the mark? I mean, were you looking for it?

Riddley Walker

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:38:04 +1200

that wouold explain the MSD tattoo on the back of my neck.
take andrew. i won't tell. i'm not ready to come in yet.

merc

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:10:22 +1200

Andrew and Agent Riddley, you lived in a castle, but were separated at some point as a social development research study. We have been pleased with progress, however it is unfortunate that you have now discovered the truth. You may have to be "retired". Happily we still have the toys.…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:39:54 +1200

they were all die cast then.
andrew i had that same silver DB5 – are you sure we didn't live in the same house but never noticed each other? i am quite introverted myself.

3410

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:46:32 +1200

That thunderbird 2 was HEAVY. Cast iron, no?

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:43:08 +1200

yeah mine was metal too. was it matchbox?

It was Dinky :) We also had a Lady Penelope pin k Roller, a couple of Capt. Scarlett vehicles, a James Bond Aston Martin DB5 (complete with firing missile & ejector seat), and a Yellow Submarine with all 4 beatles.

We have none…

Riddley Walker

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:32:58 +1200

yeah mine was metal too. was it matchbox? i can't remember.
and yes i heard that about Virgil, the gary coleman of supermariontion.
but oh, Mariiiiiiinaaaa, pretty marina.... . he was probably in love with her, all that fishiness and a tail – who could blame him?
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