Karl Marx

May 10, 2018

Off We Go

HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali | Wednesday, May 10, 2018 IT’S been a while between scribbles here at the Diary’s desk, for all sorts of reasons that really don’t rate a mention. We have heard no complaints, but we’ll ignore that silence and the signals it Continue reading

Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Politics

Ascension Day, Getting Fit, Julian Fellowes, Karl Marx, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia, Marxism, Phoney Phones, Prabowo Subianto, Queensland, Rudy Giuliani
May 6, 2017

Hard Times

HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali, May. 6, 2017 IT’S Sigmund Freud’s birthday today. The thought occurred, just at random, that it would be fun to get his, and Zeno the Stoic’s, views on our own times. Unfortunately these proved to be chiefly unprintable. Their shared view, Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali

Arief Billah, Karl Marx, Legian Beach Hotel, Oscar Wilde, Sigmund Freud, Wine
May 10, 2016

Keystone Kops

Hector’s Bali Diary, May 11, 2016 His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Exactly what went wrong on May 2, when the police arrived in strength at a location to arrest a French citizen, a man publicly known to be seriously mentally disturbed, needs to be fully explained. It hadn’t been explained Continue reading

Australia, Bali, Charity, Public Administration, Social Development, Tourism

Baggage collection, Bali Dynasty, Boeing 787, Brisbane Airport, Jetstar, Karl Marx, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, May Day, Ngurah Rai Airport, Paradise Property, Police actions, Qantas, Robert Epstone, Rubber bullets, SoleMen, Waterbom, Zappaz
January 19, 2016

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 20, 2016

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Modern Times There’s been an outbreak of nostalgia for the “old Bali” recently, one of those periodic episodes where everyone puts on their rose-tinted glasses and peers back into the past, fondly recalling what they think they remember. Ah, the old days! Things were so Continue reading

Art, Australia, Bali, Books, Bureaucracy, Economic Development, Environment, Indonesia, Social Development, Tourism

Capitalism, Country Road Picture Framers, David Bowie, Gordon Gecko, Governor Pastika, Hindu culture, Jesuits, Karl Marx, Litterers, Made Kaek, Manipulative rubs, Phil Jarratt, Sarah Bowes, Smokers, Steve Palmer, Western mendicants

About Me

Former journalist now confined by age and indolence to blogging about this and that, now from Western Australia, previously from Indonesia (that’s the 8 degrees in the title) and before that, Queensland. I don’t do a newsletter so ignore that prompt below.

Karl Marx

Off We Go

Hard Times

Keystone Kops

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 20, 2016