I have been told Errol Flynn frequented Cuba through the late 1940s and early 1950s. He bowled up to a party at the home of American diplomatic people, dropped a bag of laundry with the lady of the house expecting it to be done. She, in no uncertain terms, in fact, in terms which Errol himself could understand, told him to do it himself. He professed great respect for the woman thereafter.
Some profound posts this week. No, no profane, profound. Learned. Starting with Undermining Democracy from Suzanne Moore of The Guardian, arguing that the middle class is in terminal decline. Suzanne Moore says “without this middle-class ….., this ever expanding inequality governed by aristocrats looks less like a democracy and more like a system that never shook off feudalism”.
“St Louis has a remarkable arch. ……….. In one act it expresses a weight of history and an unrestrained optimism for the future. St Louis is like that.” Quentin Cockburn reports on St Louis, its Arch, the Mississippi and the Museum
With bated breath we awaited the next instalment from Endette Hall where the “Film Industry” and the “Beaver Thieves” were disturbing the serenity of this special purpose facility. Ira Maine did not disappoint. Applications for residency are at an all time high.
This abridged article from The Guardian, “Behaviour you Accept”, clearly defines many Australians as Passively Complicit (at best) in reinforcing our sexist society – “The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept”.
Profound posts abound – Tarquin then availed us of his intellect with the first part of a challenging piece “Man as Machine”.
“Think on this; for thousands of years we’ve either Hunted, or Gathered, or Farmed. Extraordinarily, in the 19th Century, we threw all that away when we blithely said, despite millennia of stability, experience and knowledge; ‘Fuck this for a game of soldiers..’ and took to the Industrial Revolution as if the past wasn’t worth a cracker.”
Saturday’s Musical Dispatch from the Front continues to tackle stereotyping and its nefarious results with the second part of the dispatch first published 9 August 2013. (A rejoinder will appear next Saturday)
Our Australian Election Coverage continued with Paddy 0′Cearmada giving us a further two insightful articles ‘Hot Air’ (04 September 2013), ‘Plaster Saints’ (28 August 2013), and his report on voting in ‘Fear and loathing in North Balwyn’ (08 September 2013). They can be read in the Election 2013 tab, along with today’s offering ‘Wake in Fright’ (Many voters in the Electorate of Indi seem to be yelling “Go Sophie, Go!”
For the day after Australia’s Federal Election Ira Maine, our Poetry Editor chose Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”, of which he said “The poem tells of a great adventure, of a terrifying enemy, sought and found and soundly defeated. Of how the hero, carrying the enemy’s severed head, is welcomed back home by an almost incredulous parent, who declares it a ‘frabjous day’, a day of wonder, a day of joyful celebration.”
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Regards
Cecil Poole