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Archive for May, 2009

After Klimpt in Venice and before Giotto in Padua.
Bavaria….or Austria. Either way some place that was rather too welcoming of the Nazis.
What an unfortunate claim to fame. Fortunately that is not all.

Austria. Not to be confused with Australia though some have.
Another place with an “embarrassing” history.

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small places

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Smoking kills…

from a previous life…
When M. and I visited Shigaraki to see the pottery.
Every day at midday, as regular as clockwork, there was a violent thunderstorm.
We sheltered from the downpour in a potter’s workshop but I needed a smoke so I ran out through the storm to
buy some cigarettes and couldn’t but fail to see the [...]

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berry

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I couldn’t help it…

I was listening to Barbara Allen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adxXdhKYob4&feature=related

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Mini Britain #2

Tiny little people and their tiny little lives and their tiny little concerns and priorities.
No matter how small you are you can still change the world….or at least bring down a government:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8064868.stm

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Oh What…

a Lovely War!

How anybody who saw this movie could ever believe their government mystifies me.

“Forward”, from the rear, he cried
and the front rank died.

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Mini Britain

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black and white…

While I was being bicycled around these temples I was offered first some “smack”, heroin.
Then a girl…..
then a “young girl”.

The risks poor people take. Whatever small profit he might make would bring no real
improvement to his life and the mere offer entailed enormous risk.
Add to that the fact that he was perpetuating what is actually, [...]

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Guinness helps you see clearly.

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Just some place…

…I visited.
Was it interesting?
She’ll never say.
I think she’s forgotten.

It doesn’t get any clearer than this.

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This was rather pretty…

so I fixed it.

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with a spliff  this could be perfect…

or red wine…
Lying in the shade of a tree on a warm afternoon. A bottle of wine, weed, a frisbee and friends.
In those days it was the countryside of a south of England summer.

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Just now I heard what I thought was someone creeping around the back of my house.
I went to see what it was, a half drunk cup of coffee my only defense. It was good coffee so I finished it…and a nice cup so I left it behind and went to investigate.
It was not a person [...]

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or Burundi.
When they’re  just around the corner.

If you can travel in your imagination you’ll not be disappointed.
Neither will you have to worry about the toilets.

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Black…

messed up photos from an age ago.

Photographs from when I lived in Kanazawa a thousand years ago.

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just a rather nice house close to here.

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