Many many years ago a man named James K. Baxter opened a place in the heart of Wellington city called The Love Shop. It was like a charity shop, except that everything in it was free . I worked there for some time and it was then that it occurred to me that people can …
Category: This occurred to me
I is/Has Gravity
At the con I watched a short u-tube clip, (I can’t see them on my dailup at home) It featured cats and was, if I recall correctly, entitled ‘I is has gravity.’ Actually it should have been titled I is hasn’t gravity, because it showed astronauts (or two men dressed like that) in weightlessness with …
A GREAT CONCLAVE II NATCON
Over the last six days I’ve been in Auckland at the National SF Convention. It was a great trip, (although as usual the bus companies were so incompetant that they left me wondering how they make a living. Last year I went to and from the con down in Wellington entirely by bus but had …
DON’T ALWAYS BELIEVE YOUR DOCTOR
I notice that in recent issues of a magazine I read each week, that there have been a number of contributors saying that when they or someone they know were ill or hurt, the doctor brushed off the problem as nothing major. The person later discovered that whatever the problem was, it was very definitely …
I’m Voting For Winston Peters.
Personal opinions really in play – Last week I replied to a survey asking how and if I’d vote this year. I replied that I would certainly be voting, I always do. I regard it as a civic duty. However for whom I’d vote is trickier. National? I don’t like that smarmy, cold-eyed, gladhander. Labour? …
Public Speaking and Panic
After an email recently it occurred to me just how lucky I am. I’m one of the Guests of Honour at Conclave 2, the National SF Convention in Auckland over Anzac weekend. And as such I’ll be doing a seminar or two, the odd talk, and I could be grabbed for a panel if someone’s …
If Aliens Arrive –
Over the past couple of days I’ve been re-reading my Garfield books and it occurred to me to wonder, if aliens arrived on earth and read those, what are they going to think of them? (why do cat lovers read Garfield? Because Jim Davis knows a thing or two about cats, and it also reminds …
Beyond RepRoache
I can’t help wondering where English justice has gone of late. The newspapers and TV a week or so ago were all agog to report that yet another Coronation Street star has been cleared of sexual assault allegations. William Roache walked free of Preston Crown Court with (yet again) the prosecuter wailing that ‘the case …
OOOEEERRR!
I recently found an article that says the subduction zone off the North Island East Coast has been ranked as being at high risk of generating a giant earthquake. New research rated a 600-kilometre section of the Hikurangi-southern Kermadec subduction segment, starting at the lower North Island and stretching to the northeast, as having the …
That was the Week That was!
25 January 2014
It was also just over a a week in time where events ran into a number of areas in my usual blog and left me breathless. It started on Saturday the 18th with my having decided several days earlier to email the nice chap who was my editor for a short story collection due out …
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