Issue 72

The Promoters cont. I’d have to say that our version of I’ll Be Gone and the almost as inevitable couple of blues tunes, absolutely stole the show. Just about everybody told us how touched they were, and then asked if we were still performing (!) etc. In so many ways it was a wonderful couple…

Well, for one thing he’s usurped a traditional Rudd family name. My great-grandfather on my father’s side was named Minchin Rudd and my father still carries Minchin as his middle name. OK. In fact, I couldn’t give a fig about happenstance like that. It’s his talent I resent. M couldn’t have been absolutely riveted to…

..incisors eventually surrendered. I could tell the difference between linoleum and the Italian tiles that they tried to imitate without needing to resort to a hammer and chisel. In the film ‘Stagecoach’ when the Indian fell amongst the team of horses, went under the stagecoach , caught the axle and climbed back onto the swaying…

..us with some unanswered questions, not the least being what is it about our society that young men find this the only way to express their frustration with Life, the Universe etc.? I dallied with the thought that perhaps as an only child, our troubled young man might’ve been accorded too much maternal affection, (is…

.. nylon-string guitar for instance sounds unnervingly ambivalent and jangly as a result, especially in the top three strings. Not to mention that my right ear is so shot to pieces that I prefer to wear an ear plug rather than a hearing aid when I’m playing or listening to even slightly amplified music, as…

– and in fact it was just two days later I got the fateful phone call. The problem sewer is a wrinkle the new owner is probably unaware of as yet, but I guess if you’ve got $1.29m to spend on a property, another $10,000 to upgrade the sewers isn’t going to make a lot…