Issue 40

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Dealer of the month Again we’re not talking about a CD retailer this month – they can wait until we eventually release some new product and we need to suck up. No, this month we’re talking about Music Junction, my handily located musical instrument dealer next to the Rivoli in Camberwell – well, East Hawthorn…

Dick’s Toolbox cont. .. savings purchasing attractive, over-priced land in nice locations and growing grapes. Sometimes even making wine. Many years ago I helped some dear friends in one of these quixotic adventures, and it was very hard work, though in the end they did make some more than credible wine. Their happy progress was…

..furniture that some lad from East Cheam paid thousands of dollars for was actually knocked up out of an old Ikea wardrobe by a disreputable Chinese merchant two years ago. My own humble opinion is that the reason for Antiques Roadshow’s success is not the thrill of the antique but the satisfaction of participating in…

..Love. Perhaps it is fitting that in 2009 Spector was convicted of the second-degree murder of actress Lana Clarkson and is serving a prison sentence of nineteen years to life. There was a dude who surely changed the perception of popular music but just as surely believed his own publicity citing him as a genius….

..the diary I note down odd words and phrases that catch my attention and one of them was a comment on a popular bit of Newspeak. i.e. ‘forward’ is the new black. This touches on another gripe that probably falls into the realm of yer Grumpy Old Men, but just as the notion of progress…