Issue 74

..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…

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..version, which is to music what the hydrogen bomb is to a fart. I can understand completely that to discover me sitting on a stool in the corner of a café with a guitar playing a bunch of never before heard songs can be a confronting or even annoying experience if not seen and heard…

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..adventure couture-wise, mostly in an attempt to be the opposite of Spectrum in every respect, but also reflecting what was going on in the pop scene at the time with the advent of glam rock – you could say that visually at least we weren’t all that different to Gary Glitter and Marc Bolan, both…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. (I think it was on the ABC) about an apparently typical family in North Korea. (Let’s get over the ‘what is typical’ debate before we go any further). Of course, by Western standards they weren’t that well off in terms of consumer goods that may or may not qualify…