Tag: Steve Palmer

• Lost in the Forest

  Hector’s Bali Diary, Apr. 13, 2016 His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   A Hollywood actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, visited Sumatra and said he thought it would be a great idea to protect the rainforest and the orangutans living in it, especially from palm oil plantations. This is an unexceptional statement. It is…

  8degreesoflatitude

  April 13, 2016

  America, Australia, Bali, Environment, Indonesia, Politics, Pornography, Sexual Health

  American Pie, Ardian Nugroho, Cheese, Don McLean, Drunken Monkeys, Free condoms, Leonardo DiCaprio, Steve Palmer

• 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…

  8degreesoflatitude

  January 19, 2016

  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

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sep. 2, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Heading for the Hills Last year an unavoidable detention in Australia – its cause was medical, not custodial, in case any among the Diary’s more liverish readers might snigger and wonder – meant we were not among the 126, 000-plus attendees reported to have crowded Bali’s…

  8degreesoflatitude

  September 1, 2015

  Animal Welfare, Art, Bali, Books, Bureaucracy, Charity, Environment, Festivals, Indonesia

  Adrian Vickers, Andreas Harsono, Boob Barers, Chigozie Obioma, Christina Lamb, Delphine Robbe, Dog Culling, Emily Britto, Lempad of Bali, Lonely Planet, Man Booker Prize, Michael Chabon, Miles Franklin Award, Moshin Hamid, Mpho Tutu, Pulitzer Prize, Schapelle Corby, Sophie Laguna, Stella Prize, Steve Palmer, UWRF 2015, Waterman’s Awards

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 23, 2013

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   In the Swim We hear that Celia Gregory, the underwater sculptress, will soon be back among us. She’s coming up for air after a longish sojourn in Britain. Gregory’s interest lies in the crisis of coral – everywhere but chiefly in our own interest in…

  8degreesoflatitude

  January 22, 2013

  General Interest

  Anand Krishna, Celia Gregory, Coral Sculpture, Elizabeth O’Neill, Hatten Wines, Hot Sheets, James Kalleske, Jennifer Bee, Methanol Poisoning, Steve Palmer