tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post378402067222748611..comments2024-03-29T04:12:15.091+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond is relieved to learn, courtesy of the reptiles at the lizard Oz and Peter Craven, that the world is saved ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-71189209608074680492015-04-05T08:50:36.703+10:002015-04-05T08:50:36.703+10:00Ta, those damn ex-ABC style guide folk at it again...Ta, those damn ex-ABC style guide folk at it again, and misquoting Craven. Fixed, and the pond never minds people playing the pedant, being prone to the disease as well ... and yes UC, the pond treasures the occasional freebie from the airport ... so bizarre and passing strange, the rags now have the quaintness and charm of an LP or a Phillips cassette ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48769993359659083532015-04-05T08:45:36.046+10:002015-04-05T08:45:36.046+10:00:) DW and strangely Craven didn't mention Paso...:) DW and strangely Craven didn't mention Pasolini's Salo and the Catholic church's role in its banning.<br /><br />http://libertus.net/censor/odocs/huntley_salo.htmldorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-18246933872452464822015-04-04T18:25:12.309+11:002015-04-04T18:25:12.309+11:00The erotic adventures of Hercules!The erotic adventures of Hercules!corvusboreushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05223349708618386118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-89193373564792427412015-04-04T16:45:37.621+11:002015-04-04T16:45:37.621+11:00Paul Celan's Figure of Death?
DP, maybe you me...<i>Paul Celan's Figure of Death</i>?<br />DP, maybe you meant 'Fugue of Death' or Todesfuge. I wouldn't play the pedant, except that Celan wrote a masterpiece. Goes well with 'The Reader' (film).<br />At MAP this morning, the Qantas terminal. Grab a free newspaper, haven't handled one for a while, will the "experience" be rekindled. Look! The pile in the rack is small, maybe they are going off at a great rate. But, looking around, no-one else is doing battle with a broadsheet. Could they have put fewer in the rack, to make it look like many have been taken, already? We'll never know. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-73231051267136353862015-04-04T15:20:11.412+11:002015-04-04T15:20:11.412+11:00Oh, you mean like in the Harper Report ... and ind...Oh, you mean like in the Harper Report ... and indeed anything by the so-called 'Productivity Commission' for the last twenty years or so.<br /><br />Long live the econorats !GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-61922671927791160802015-04-04T12:58:31.375+11:002015-04-04T12:58:31.375+11:00Richard Dennis gives an interesting perspective on...Richard Dennis gives an interesting perspective on the pernicious influence of the there is no other way "free market" thing tank propaganda hacks such as Lomborg in an essay in the new edition of The Monthly Magazine - it is titled Spreadsheets of Power How Economic Modelling Is Used to Circumvent Democracy and Shut Down Debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-78276733140565994722015-04-04T12:16:16.779+11:002015-04-04T12:16:16.779+11:00Tragic indeed but I don't blame religion. The ...Tragic indeed but I don't blame religion. The world is full of power seekers who will use any means to dominate others even if that requires wholesale death and destruction. <br /><br />Best wishes Diddy<br /><br />Miss ppAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-81034590164607570792015-04-04T11:29:16.190+11:002015-04-04T11:29:16.190+11:00Seems that it's not only Fairfax having proble...Seems that it's not only Fairfax having problems with it's subbies.<br /><br />https://twitter.com/thecjnet/status/584146158668218368<br /><br />Interesting that Bolt's story is subbed "An objective report"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-72456439017986118882015-04-04T10:17:23.856+11:002015-04-04T10:17:23.856+11:00Hi Miss pp,
It's sad that this cultural vanda...Hi Miss pp,<br /><br />It's sad that this cultural vandalism is becoming so prevalent. That the Saudis tolerated AQ operating out of Yemen for a decade without doing anything but become belligerent when the Shia are involved belies their motivations.<br /><br />Religion seems increasingly the reason we can't have nice things anymore.<br /><br />DWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13740674868222410752015-04-04T10:04:44.490+11:002015-04-04T10:04:44.490+11:00Diddy I share your concern about the fate of Sana&...Diddy I share your concern about the fate of Sana'a.<br /><br />I have never been there but I have a friend who lived there for 10 years and awakened my interest in that extraordinary city.<br /><br />Miss ppAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-64054657318269044192015-04-04T09:49:46.042+11:002015-04-04T09:49:46.042+11:00Hi Dorothy,
Coincidently I was just thinking abou...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />Coincidently I was just thinking about Pasolini this week.<br /><br />I had been reading about the under reported destruction of Sana'a in Yemen by Saudi bombing. That one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world containing many architectural gems was being bombed flat, with barely a murmur in the Western press seemed both outrageous and depressingly normal behaviour.<br /><br />In the old city many of the houses resemble ancient skyscrapers and I realised that I was first made aware of them when I watched Pasolini's " Il fiore delle mille e una notte" or "A Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) in my youth.<br /><br />I was of course just watching it for its artistic merit and barely noticed the copious nudity and sex in the bawdy tale. Even then I wondered how they got away with filming it in such a conservative Muslim country like Yemen. Still offending local sensibilities seems like small cheese when compared to bombing a UNESCO World Heritage Site flat.<br /><br />DiddyWroteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-36016935012925431052015-04-04T09:09:11.288+11:002015-04-04T09:09:11.288+11:00Here's the Reclaim Australia mob out in full f...Here's the Reclaim Australia mob out in full force in Sydney this morning - and dressed as gladiators.<br /><br />https://twitter.com/NewsAustralia/status/584108689746894848/photo/1<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41039126310816378952015-04-04T09:04:09.363+11:002015-04-04T09:04:09.363+11:00On Bolt's report tomorrow...
"Editorial:...On Bolt's report tomorrow...<br /><br />"Editorial: Christ, martyr to free speech. And some things just haven’t changed. "<br /><br />Talk about a God complex. Or that old Narcissistic Personality Disorder rearing it's ugly head again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com