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Del boy
.. tour I’m involved in at the moment – even older than Brian Cadd – and I was reminded of this fact when having one of my several chats with fellow MOTE guest singer and ‘male, independent Australian singer-songwriter based in Melbourne’, Lior. I’m nearly twice Lior’s age, (he turned 36 a couple of weeks…
The worst hotel
..Mother Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. It was turned into a hotel in 1934 with the idea of Benevolent Elkdom remaining in the smell and the décor. It had achieved a certain notoriety because of its Grand Ballroom, where Kiss competed with cultural highlights such as the First American Sex Festival,…
Liger
Liger! Liger! Burning bright! Thanks to Paul Culnane for forwarding this to me The 10ft Liger who’s still growing… He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood. But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood – as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar….
God only knows
..anything at all! Anyway, it was a perfect early autumn morning when we pulled over outside the Selwyn Gallery in Darfield, a two-horse town twenty minutes west of Christchurch where the snowless Southern Alps loom over the parched Canterbury plains, this day under a blank blue sky. Unlike the other very fine galleries we’d visited…
Democracy – Oi, Oi, Oi!
..however, have a patently mad Abbott and a quite peculiar Bishop. Corruption is relatively minor, flourishing at the local council level (how else does a flood plain become a housing estate after all) but is not the rampant pervasive cancer as in many countries near our borders. Governments change civilly and without rancour perhaps because…