Sunday, 22 November 2009

Ghosts at The View, Angel Delight and whales


Have just posted a piece I've been working on for The View from Here: The Ghost Poetry Project: an interview with Nathan Curnow - Part One.  Part Two should be appearing at around 1.00 pm (AEST) on Tuesday.
 

Recently read Toast, the story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater (Harper Perennial, 2007) and Dissection by Jacinta Halloran (Scribe, 2008).  Well, I stopped with Toast after a hundred pages.  I found it interesting to be reminded of the various food fads of 60s Britain - Heinz Sponge Pudding, Arctic Roll, Angel Delight, to name but a few - but wanted something more of a story behind all the humorous observations.  After a while it felt like I was being spoon-fed bowl after bowl of Angel Delight: too much saccharine, too little substance.  Dissection was a much more substantial dish.


The whales have left our stretch of the Southern Ocean for the time-being - their presence during the winter months is always impressive - but to make up for that, I've rediscovered (courtesy of ComedyOnABC) a favourite short animation.  Anything for mindless amusement.  Love the 'New Zealand' accents.

Here's episodes 1 and 6.







3 comments:

  1. Paul:

    I will not be able to post for a while because there is a problem with Blogger and I cannot access Edit. Thus, I'm dead in the water until they fix it and I have no idea how long that will take. If you hear anything useful please visit my site and let me know. I am desperate.

    I definitely do not want to lose touch with you.

    As Always, happy trails.

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  2. Have posted a response re Blogger over on your site, Swubird. I wonder if a software conflict caused the problem - or even a default/preference setting. I noticed that the Edit window changed for my wife's Blogger window shortly after she set it up recently, and I had to play with the settings to recover it.

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