I haven’t fallen off the edge of the earth. I am recovering from another series of strange coincidences so I have not been replying to my emails. I am finding lately that emails drain me - not sure why ... What is going on so many people around me are in hospitals or undergoing some kind of treatment - radiology is a word on many lips
Writing is like crime. The page is about what you can get away with. We break and enter, transgress, autopsy the living and dead, rob, exchange identities, lie, confess, steal. The arts of writing and successful crime are the same. Opportunity. Robbery. Seizure. Con. Misdirection. Theft. Fiction is a form of fraud, the most elegant, exquisite and complicated forms of creative fraud.
-Kate Braverman
You know you need to clear your head once you start having less than divine dreams with writers like Miranda Devine By George, Hollywood's out of touch
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Speaking truth to power
How is it that some liars, thieves and moral midgets like Gerardo Barranquero are perceived by Asteron and other times by other companies as exemplars of probity and virtue?
Why is it that some people who really do possess the 'right stuff' are perceived as dishonest, untrustworthy and not up to scratch? What is it about human perception that allows us to attribute good qualities to bad people on some occasions, and on other occasions to ascribe bad qualities to good people? In the 1980s, when I was a current affairs interviewer with a certain amount of inside knowledge of the virtues and peccadillos of many for the political and corporate doyens of the time, How could some 'Crooks in Dark Suits', as I came to know them, hold such enormous sway over the polity, over the investment community, and over the backroom boys and girls who often bankrolled their apogean journeys into the corporate, and "'sometimes political, mainstream? Conversely, why were many patently talented 'Honest Joes and (Jozefines) left out in the cold river? Why did many perceive them to have suspect motives, negative qualities and unappealing personalities? Did they look, behave or talk differently?
• CHARISMA. Magic, Appeal, Influence, Magnetism, Aura, Radiance. You can't define it The bases of social power [A deputation of Australian independent film-makers will head to Canberra next week to argue for tax changes that they say will allow them to compete internationally and lead to a surge in local film investment Push for tax break on local filming ; The New South Wales Parliament makes the video and audio material available on the following conditions: i. The material shall not be used for: political party advertising or election campaigning; satire or ridicule… Some guidelines have reached Media Dragon regarding the NSW Parliament's exciting new Video Hansard]
• · Two days after St Jozef’s day on 21 March to coincide with Harmony Day I will become part of taxing Antipodean history: Thank you Sharmini Taxing Times ; America's Most Admired Companies, 2006 from Fortune. And the winners are...
• · · Fishing for talent in a sea of change ; Cold Blackwell of Water Have I hit the mark?
• · · · When a bohemian barman who's told by a broken hearted wife that her husband Scott Reid is cheating on her discovers she is ready to jump the harbour Bridge, he marries her, convinced that God will honor his good intentions and make the couple fall in love. But can it really be that simple? Heart of glass; As child care grows harder to find and afford, parents are pressing for reform. But who should pay - and what are the costs of getting it wrong? More than six in 10 young people in NSW are putting off having children because they cannot afford to get on the housing ladder, a Daily Telegraph survey has found. The website study has found 63 per cent have delayed starting families because house prices have soared. Putting a Price on Our Children
• · · · · Do Writers Need Web Sites? by C.S. Paquin; Another new free archive from Newspaperarchive.com, here are pages of newspapers carrying stories about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The stories are searchable. Titanic Newspaper Archive
• · · · · · Saturday partners in crime swimming across the Bondi Bay, Dave Kelly the Irish Captain and Ian, Jonesey, (required oxygen mask after bluebottles bit him ;-) do note this 2005 World Shark Attack summary ; #1 song on this date in history from Billboard charts, back to 1940 ; Memories of Lauren ;-) 1984 ... "I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder