..Mother Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. It was turned into a hotel in 1934 with the idea of Benevolent Elkdom remaining in the smell and the décor. It had achieved a certain notoriety because of its Grand Ballroom, where Kiss competed with cultural highlights such as the First American Sex Festival,…
..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…
Mal Logan and Enza Pantano have visited my studio recently and recorded some Hammond and vocals respectively on a couple of my new tunes – and of course in this case, a good time was had by all, and everything went down in one take. Great stuff! Thanks guys, I owe you one! (No, make…
Robbo is very happy, thank you! Bill looks contented, either that or he hasn’t quite heard what I just said.. Robbo’s seen something hilarious, and Mike sneaks a look.. Half-way through the first set and Daz is concentrating..
The goofy looking guy on the left is Ted Lethborg, and there’s Jeff Turnbull on the couch next to bro’ Dick with the camera
The lads gather concentration and pull together in the opening number at the Wordleys’ house (Ross)
Mike’s Christchurch photo album 1) Hi, I’m Mike. I’ll be your guide for the next 33 frames. 2) This is me, walking the city with my cameraphone 3) This is looking up in the new Canterbury Art Gallery. Cool building too, even though it was designed by an Aussie.. 4) The facade of the Art…
Piledriver 1) Wayne Smith, Andrew Forrer and Co Tipping 2) Andrew Forrer
As I said, this is Trevor grimacing picturesquely at the Addington Showgrounds many, many years ago.. This is Trevor and me changing cars after an attempted bank heist that went horribly wrong. Jim’s masquerade as an old lady went predictably pear-shaped when he refused to shave off his goatee and Trevor wouldn’t climb over the…
Custer Had It Comin’ He didn’t read the signs You gotta be just so polite When you cross anothers’ lines George Custer’s down in hist’ry books As a hero of some kind But an Indian who would agree Is kinda hard to find He didn’t have no manners He won everythin’ by force Until at…
1) Ross belts out ‘I Don’t Believe All Your Kids Should Be Virgins’ and Mike checks to see if there are some believers.. 2) I’m not sure, but I think Hannaford’s still wearing that jumper..
..found a story that I’d seen in on the NZ Prime News about a Kiwi musician, Don McGlashan, (whom I saw in the Comedy Festival a few years ago in The Front Lawn), who’d ridden his bicycle into an open car door, (somewhat ironically in Auckland’s Dominion Rd, which featured in a hit song he’d…
The idea of a Metaverse did not arise with Linden Lab, but had its genesis in a Commodore computer game from Lucasfilm called Habitat, Lucasfilm being the film production company that brought us the steadily declining Star Wars franchise. Habitat was made available in 1987 by the corporate progenitor of America Online, Quantum Link. It…
…shattering when you inevitably drop it, but they’re also bad because they tend to partially obscure the camera lens when you’re taking spontaneous shots for the website. A phone pouch doesn’t keep your phone dry in a toilet bowl either, as I discovered after peeling mine off the phone. My pretty little Nokia phone/camera had…
Our first regular dentist was the ancient Dr McIntyre, who was on the first floor off Cathedral Square in the then small but undiminished Christchurch. There was a clanking open-frame lift with pantographic doors, but one felt safer taking the wide polished wooden stairs up to the linoleum landings with their doors of frosted glass….
..could access the music room, which was equipped with a grand piano and comfortable looking chairs with flower print covers – it probably doubled as a lounge / reception room now that I think about it. Our grandmother was a formidable pianist and we would spend many an evening singing selections from South Pacific and…
I hope he had a really good time in his three days. As a by-product of my reading I tend to collect oddities of history. Apparently I am much older than I thought – and probably dead. The story was also mentioned obliquely by my brother some time ago. However what he failed to note…