Issue 93

Bearing in mind this is taken out of context, here’s what Michael Marissen had to say on the subject in his discussion with John Kleinig and Robin Leaver – I think you’ll get the gist: I mean there are two kinds of texts that people are uncomfortable with these days, no matter what their background….

.. tell me to tell me that he was 29 years old, that he was serious about his rap music, that one of his rap nom-de-plumes was Jules Rockwell, that he was registered with Centrelink, that his mother would prefer it if he could hold down a steady job and that she preferred Massive Attack…

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Anyway, this particular setback to my innocence happened on a rainy day at the family farm (Mendip Hills) in North Canterbury, two or three hours north of the now blighted city of Christchurch. Mendip Hills was the jewel in the crown of the Rutherford family, our forebears on our mother’s side. Our grandfather, Norman Rutherford,…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. (I think it was on the ABC) about an apparently typical family in North Korea. (Let’s get over the ‘what is typical’ debate before we go any further). Of course, by Western standards they weren’t that well off in terms of consumer goods that may or may not qualify…

..be burying thirty-five of our citizens per week. It would attract some comment in Melbourne as the trains would effectively stop running. But I suspect that the trains in Mumbai cannot afford to stop running more than momentarily given that seven million people use the suburban rail system on a daily basis. Naturally on the…