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Mike's
Pith & Wind -
Predictions
I’ve just torn myself away from the US Presidential
debate because I’m way overdue for this
monthly blog. It is fascinating though.
Nobody as recently as a year ago would’ve
predicted that a buffoon like Trump could actually
be in a debate with a seasoned, comparatively
astute player like Hillary Clinton and, almost
because of his irrational, incompetent
assertions rather than in spite of them, still
be in the race for the White House with nobody
actually daring to write him off. Yet.
The scenario is so unsettlingly wild that very
few writers, or even film makers, have toyed with
the notion of a delusional upstart hairpiece like
Trump as President of the United States. One of
the few movies to do so happened to be one of
Bill Putt’s favourites – he liked
it so much I bought him the DVD not long before
he died. Called Idiocracy, it is in many
ways a B-grade romp, but it nevertheless nails
where the current political trends might inevitably
lead. Even if you can only last a few minutes
(it is pretty excruciating) you’ll
get the idea.
I’m sorry to report that things have been
a bit quiet on the second-string celebrity front,
although I still get the odd charge from a chance
encounter with real celebrities higher
up the celebrity scale. One such encounter was
quite recently. My partner Maria and I were waiting
for bro’ Dick and his wife Mary in the foyer
of the Melbourne Recital Theatre. We were there
to see Jean Cocteau's 1946 film Beauty and
the Beast with the Philip Glass Ensemble
playing Glass’ score.. read
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| Dick's
Toolbox - I know what I like
It is October and the weather
had been bad for what seems like an eternity.
Being confined in Melburnian gloom has caused
the general dissatisfaction levels to build up.
'I don’t know a lot about art but I know
what I like', is a stirring nostrum that contrasts
well with an artist who can say that he knows
a lot about art and he knows what he likes. I
know a lot about art (I really do), but I still
like Victorian realist painting and there is a
lot of Picasso I think meretricious drivel. In
art it’s an opinion, ill informed, but of
no great danger to you; whereas too much trans-fat
fast food and soft drink will cause you and the
300 jumbo-sized obese humanoid replaceable meat
units (RMUs) to crash into the nearest hill when
the plane runs out of fuel.
I say this because they weigh your luggage when
you’re about to take off for your flight
to Bali for seven days of international embarrassment
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