Issue 145

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Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. But then some silly words jumped out and put themselves to the silly little tune, and before long a verse, and another, and a chorus.. Bugger me! I had a song bloody writing itself. I couldn’t resist it any longer and rushed, rushed I tell you, into the barely used…

.. their lack of salesmanship, because after twenty minutes of standing in the bitterly cold wind that was whipping round the schoolyard in a numbed kind of reverie interrupted only by the unwanted blandishments of the blotchy-faced woman in the crocheted poncho selling wax cups of tea and $2.00 raffle tickets (prizes of this year’s…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. But I’m getting less sure that I’ve got the time. Film stars and musicians I grew up with are dropping of the coil daily. Friends and acquaintances, family – there’s hardly a day goes by when I don’t hear of somebody I knew being menaced by or succumbing to various…

..Elimination’ may give you a clue but she also does a great line in off-beat footnotes. Did you know that Eskimo hunters travelling alone on still, glassy waters are sometimes stricken by ”kayak angst” – delusions that their boat is flooding or that that the front end is either sinking or rising up out of…

.. sound of rain relentlessly thundering down on my roof – and filtering down through the loungeroom ceiling into my now inadequate symphony of pots and pans and thudding damply onto the attractive pooh-brown carpet. I realised that I was far too annoyed to go back to sleep, and concluded that the light was only…