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Inanimate objections
ByMikeRuddAs a young person I read some of the writings of Carl Jung. There was a section in it that I couldn’t quite come to grips with about how inanimate objects are living, sentient beings in a living, sentient world. I think that my story demonstrates that my scraps dish and bread board, otherwise perfectly…
The worst hotel
ByMikeRudd..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,…
Idiot box
ByMikeRudd..Wall. (Check out the wall on my Facebook page) David Langsam commented that ‘..the Palace has the potential to be a good venue, but the wrestling and golf and rotating sports on big screens is a terrible distraction.’ Ron Mahony, a fellow Cantabrian musician responded with, ‘Hell – we used to play with both the…
Scott of the Antarctic
ByMikeRudd.. the Rudd boys originated. As a film it exemplified the last embers of ember that were still being instilled in the bosom of New Zealand’s youth. What I had not realised was that the 2.6-metre tall marble statue, which was badly damaged in the earthquake, had been sculpted by Scott’s wife Kathleen. It had…