1) Brett Allitt and Bill ready for another day’s commentary Spectrum’s you beaut time at the Ute centre of the Universe 31.10.05 – We’d met The Crossing Café’s Brett (pic) briefly at the Echuca Winter Blues Festival, so we knew he was pretty hip, but it was still a surprise to find the café an…
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Is nothing sacred? 3.8.05 – Walking past the dog shampoo joint (sigh!) this morning I caught sight of something odd about one of the cute doggies painted on the wall. After scrawling his challenge to all graffiti comers, the local graffiti-ist had taken an extra couple of seconds of his precious time to deface the…
I’ll Be Gone in another movie 30.9.05 – I was perusing the Age in the Starpark Café yesterday morning, as is my wont, when I nearly choked on my jasmine tea. I was reading Adrian Martin’s review of a recent local release, The Magician, when I came across this mention (left) of The Song in…
Shucks – thanks Mark! What do you really think?
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It’s OK – I’m still here! 2.8.05 – I dunno. You start these things and then people have expectations. I’m back, but my errant bits and pieces haven’t spontaneously sorted themselves out, which is disappointing, and I’ve been scrabbling to sort them out in a hands-on, analogue kind of way. The Good News is that…
Hale the king! 29.8.05 – Some of you may be aware of my trying to catch Gerry Hale (pic) and band at the Terminus Hotel, (A Separate Reality), so will be relieved I’ve been at least partially successful this time around. Well, I got the night right, anyway. However, I did manage to get there…
Liger! Liger! Burning bright! Thanks to Paul Culnane for forwarding this to me The 10ft Liger who’s still growing… He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood. But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood – as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar….
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Things that are getting up my nose 25.7.07 – I can single out three issues that are providing that non-existent cosmic entity with an abundance of mirth at my expense. And, speaking of expense, having an illness sorted out and treated isn’t cheap. But let me update you with the latest info in my sphere…
1) Me at the Starpark Café putting a brave face on my coffee ration 2) the Oliv macchiato 3) Oliv at 328 Auburn Rd Coffee – the never-ending search for the perfect cup 2.7.05 – Ironically, I’ve had to cut down on my coffee consumption lately. While I’m generally of a delicate disposition anyway, I…
Bill poses with most of the crowd – Bill is most of the crowd.. Well.. 25.7.05 – It pays to have a sense of humour in this so-called business. Yesterday, (Sunday), was Mike & Bill’s inaugural performance at Wellers of Kangaroo Ground. I arrived really early, which was my first mistake. Then I discovered one…
Alkira’s dyslexic songbook The week that wasn’t.. 31.7.06 – For some reason I thought it was August already when I awoke this morning. Maybe it was because I felt like a horse’s arse, August 1st being every horse’s birthday and all, but in any event, when I got to the bank I found out that…
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1) Looking down Hardware St 2) The view from the Postman’s Nostril 3) Roberto Benigni 9.6.05 – I like going into town every now and then, and nice things happen there when you get close to a birthday. For instance, my brother Richard met me for lunch today and decided to shout me as my…
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