Middle-Class Man

.. Paris and Spain, to which end Dick purchased the latest in trendy back packs, which he proudly showed me on the night I visited them recently in Warrandyte. (See Dick’s Toolbox). I said it looked very fine, but one should be careful when wielding such an item in polite society, and told him this…

..are hotly contested, in the same sense that having the first case of syphilis might be contested. Was it the Market Square in Lake Forest built in 1916 or the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City in 1922? Perhaps Highland Park Shopping Village built in 1931 in Dallas, which turned its back on the street…

Dick’s Toolbox cont. .. argument that global warming is not just happening, (surprise), but is happening at a rate far greater than expected. We have an expanding population, (yes Virginia, there are far too many people), opting for the cheapest (coal fired) solutions to energy generation. Couple with virtually no power conservation, garnish generously with…

..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…

..month stint bashing out covers in three states non-stop. Actually, it seems we couldn’t resist adding a few new songs of our own to the list of covers, written by myself and by former Ariel keyboardist Tony Slavich, because at some point we must’ve gone into a studio and recorded a bunch of them to…