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When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Read ZMM when I was young and...

Shoulda married that bird I met in the early 80's who kept pouring her dough into some Micro-light company... At least I think it was Micro-light.... Micro... something... Anyway, she did alright.

See now that's the kind of shameless disregard for culture and heritage that is so wrong with the world. No doubt this is recently taken in that Bukosski bloke's bungalow. Look at the bloody idiot in the pic. Pissing it up, filthing out the place, Wasting his life. Whadda knobhead. Anyone know...

"Remodel". Yeah don't you just love those "euphemistic dysphemisms". The term "gentrifying" was a term knocked around here for a while a few years back. "DeLongre will fall. It's just a matter of when." How bloody outrageous that any city would want to lose its heritage. Of course 50 years...

All you locals might find yourselves on patrol duty each day if the land under the bungalow is valuable. We had a particular "Heritage Listed" property here with a little house on it, hand built and lived in by an early Premier and his family. Unfortunately the land it was on soared in value...

Rumsfeld : The bureaucrat bard Shit that known knowns speech was funny. I remember it being parodied as something like the "Known Gnomes" speech which was only marginally funnier than the original drivel that oozed from Rumsfeld's gob. Somehow making it look like verse seems to give it a shade...

Being Friday night, last night, It was another fine liquid feast for my workmates and me... There are many good things about working for this unrepetant liver-transplant-survivor alcoholic... One being the sense of authority and rightness he imparts to the notion that drunkeness is better than...

A bold statement indeed. Gotta be careful in that terrain... You might shoot the neighbor. There are some who would argue that you include the US in your grand sweep of nations (not just Asian ones)... and if you're going there you will need to include her allies cos, y'know, they support th US...

Was he a Nazi sympathizer? Pre-December 1941 I bet he saw something in it. Why wouldn't he? Before the horrors became known (particularly during the 30s) it was not uncommon for Nazism to be seen as a force for good... (i.e. ending economic depression, a bulwark against communism etc) even the...

No worries. Glad you enjoyed it. I read that you might be a Pogues fan. They do a great rendition of a popular Aussie anti-war song - you might like. It's about the Gallipoli campaign during the first world war which is one of the most important and defining moments in Australian and New...

True. My claims about Rodriguez are a bit hyperbolic, I must accept... after all many other would've-been-greats have suffered as much, if not more, unjustified disregard... but they are made due to my respect for the man and my desire to assist him, in my own small way, find a wider...

Found on You Tube.

I'm sure you will not regret the time taken to track him down. Look for his album - "At his Best"

... and so the mystery only deepens.

Is there anyone here who can tell me why Rodriguez, (www.sugarman.org) a Detroit-born musician, never made it big in the US? What was it do you imagine about his music which America found so unacceptable or just unappealing? He has a big following across Australasia and South Africa but not...

His lyrics are the best. I think he'd have sold if he sang them in monotone... I think he'd have sold if the cat sang them... and I think he'd have sold if he'd ditched the singing altogether and just recited the lyrics... But I dunno if he'd have sold if he sang like David Gates. :D

Love his lyrics. As for his singing... Just do a cat up on codeine and put it in a sack... then close your eyes and you'll think Dylan is in the room... yodeling in your ear.

Could you imagine Letterman interviewing Reed and Bukowski on the same night? I think NBC would've been scraping bits of Dave off the roof.

In an interview with Russell Crowe (discussing the film 'Gladiator' starring Reed and Crowe), it was revealed that Reed's last words as he lay dying on that bar room floor in Malta, reputedly, were, "I won't get up, I'll just keep drinking piss from down here". What a guy!! God love ya...

Yep. Even taking it to the extreme by sending condolences to the German Ambassador in Dublin after hearing of Hitler's death... (to Eamon De Valera's eternal disgrace).

OK. I threw the beer line for a bit of a laugh. Dunno whether he was anti-semitic or not Haven't heard that he had any particular anti-semitic feelings and I'm sure if he had it would've been done to death in the media by now. But anyway, anti-semitism also has to be considered within the...

His so-called Nazi sympathies would also have to be cast in the light of his being proud of his German roots. Nazism was not the widely known murder-machine in its early years that it later became. As for anti-semitism... well that was just par for the course in 'Christian' Europe... so no big...

Yeah... For whatever reason, the topic has grown legs and gone for a bit of a run... ... If you love something set it free... ha ha... ... I hope it comes back soon....

I agree that you are the arbiter of what 'give peace a chance' means to you. I suggest your understanding of the peace to which you're prepared to give a chance is influenced by your respect for the sayer who said it. But back to Buk. I don't need the Bukowski myth to respect and believe in the...

Yeah... I've read the warts and all on Dr Martin Luther King Jr. He said this, did that... screwed around till his dick fell off... But then I hear his 'I have a dream' and any 'evil' I ever heard about the man is nothing more than meaningless drivel. All hail you MLK. Ave, Ave Ave.