Mr President, have pity on the working man

all blues afficionados gotta have this!Saturday morning. The all Blacks won against Fiji last night. All the boys came through with flags flying. A bit rusty but the class was still there.


Tried to listen to Radio New Zealand but I have grown to abhor Kim HIll. I can tolerate the belletristic pretentiousness but I cannot stand the incessant use of interrogatives. It just sounds awful all the time. Doesnt it? I mean is she interviewing these people or is she just telling them what she thinks they think or should think? What the hell is going on.

Mr President. Glad to hear you gave our premier the time of day and a strawberry bun with a cherry on top. Wait. That was California.

The machinations of the freshman republicans is making the United States look worse than some banana republic or ex soviet state. IN essence they are wreckers, destroyers and grabbers who will erect any sort of flimsy "narrative" to push their own barrow. Very narrow people but in their own estimation they think they are fit to govern. nada. Michelle Bachman casts herself or at least the right wing rags here cast her as deeply conservative when in reality she is just a religious nutter. That is not "conservatism". It is just pandering. That is why I reccomended 'English History 1914-1945" to you sir. It is repelete with vain self serving arrivistes who's basic aim is not to do anything but yet reserve all the good stuff for themselves.

Best of Luck dude.

The english writer Michael Oakeshott (two t's) tried to come up with the defining work on conservatism but he just dished up a mish mash of observations, reliance on nebulous words like dispostion and he entirely missed the point which is this. A conservative is someone who dislikes change because in the shuffle they are likely to lose power or influence.



Oh and BTW the U.S. Marines were last here at the Battle of the Coral Sea commemorations in the 80's (?) I should have run away and joined up. They filled the whole of Willis Street with their Presence and their music.

Oh and BTW the Russians used to bring their Antarctic nuclear powered icebreakers here whenever they liked

We Here IN New Zealand think that we can go it alone but our whole way of life and everything else depends on your good will no matter how much we think we can defeat our enemy's with smelly gumboots and truckloads of pavlovas. We are more of a south seas lilliput than a south seas paradise. Just dont tell anyone!

Sold a whole lot of vinyl this morning. Barry Mcguire and an Are You Experienced by Jimi.

It broke my heart to see them walk out the door but I think they went to a good home.

At the moment I am really enjoying a EU, Dutch pressing of Howling Wolf. I am not sure who the guitarist is but I think some of it at least is Pat Hare. Very smooth and stylish.

Going Down Slow is a classic performance of the flaated third jusiced up with improbable arpeggio fills that you just cant copy. wah wah wah.