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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser Aug. 21, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Dancing on an Ethereal Stage It is always tragic when someone young and full of life is taken from us by that inevitable final caller, death. It is doubly so when the person concerned has been among the brightest talents around. So it is with… Continue reading
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Aussie State Ethics Chair Embroiled in Sex Scandal
He’s doing TIME already 🙂 Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY (in the Bali Advertiser, Aug. 7, 2013)
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Jam Session The Ubud Jazz Festival (Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-10 at ARMA) is one among many annual events that crowd the calendar there. And since jazz is among the more useful creations of human ingenuity, it’s well worth the trouble. Jazz is a fundamentally anarchic… Continue reading
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Japan Marks 68th Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing
A date that should forever be remembered. Continue reading
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Part 1 – Australian Federal Politics 101: How the bloody hell did we get here?
Originally posted on kernpuff: Well the Federal Election of 2013 hasn’t even been called yet and I am already over the angst that it is causing. Let’s face it, federal politics is a deadest snoozefest of late. Yeah there is a lot of talk and it’s tough to keep up with who is who (thanks… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser July 24, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences And So to Amed It’s a great little place, and decidedly easier to access from South Bali since the splendidly named Prof. I.B. Mantra By-Pass was (finally, mostly) duplicated. We hadn’t been to Amed for nearly two years and were keen to see how the… Continue reading
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Why Do Parents Insist On Killing Their Kids In Bali?
Originally posted on Borborigmus in Bali: I don’t really understand why some Balinese parents are so hell-bent on killing their kids here. Oh, they don’t do it deliberately – in many ways they care for their children in a way that far surpasses child-raising practices in westernised countries. But they allow them to ride motorbikes… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, July 10, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Trafficking in Chaos The Bali government deserves the wake-up call it got recently from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, which said continued improvements in public transport were needed to tackle traffic congestion and “not damage the image of tourism on the island”.… Continue reading
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Accent the Positive
TRIPWIRES A Traveller’s Working Notes Marseille May and June 2013 In Anglospeak, it’s Marseilles, pronounced as if to claim that one’s dear old mum takes part in the Fastnet races, or the Sydney-Hobart. It is in fact Marseille, pronounced Mah-say. The city is as deserving of appropriate diction as Paris (Pah-ree), Lyon (Lee-ohn), Orleans (Aw-lay-ohn)… Continue reading
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