tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post7020147379730082214..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: From Bad To VerseBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-3482898809928279042011-08-31T08:25:00.912+10:002011-08-31T08:25:00.912+10:00Omar Musa is the son of one Helen Musa, a former a...Omar Musa is the son of one Helen Musa, a former arts writer for the Canberra Times with no particular literary or intellectual talent but who regularly touted her son's alleged brilliance in her columns.<br /><br />So there's a Fairfax connection which, while it may not fully explain Musa'a rise from, er, 'Queanbeyan homie' to living national treasure, does give it some sort of politico-media context.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-82774279557217173082011-08-31T04:39:45.197+10:002011-08-31T04:39:45.197+10:00I thought the prize for bleak and alienated verse ...I thought the prize for bleak and alienated verse went to Kevin Rudd's victory speech in his seat at the 2010 election, a monologue so mind-raping that even Red Kerry cut away from it.Perturbedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10708803081795229778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-85369669412600431352011-08-30T15:08:26.210+10:002011-08-30T15:08:26.210+10:00Timoshenko Aslanides has produced some deft work i...Timoshenko Aslanides has produced some deft work in words and verse. My favourite is from his book AnniVersaries in which he recounts how Ned Kelly gave the Jerilderie storekeeper's boy, Johnny Monash, a deener for holding his horse while Ned attended to bank business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-29903731394323071302011-08-30T12:51:30.629+10:002011-08-30T12:51:30.629+10:00These wimpy hot plastic shrivelled 'writers...These wimpy hot plastic shrivelled 'writers' high on government kick-backs serving mind-achingly pintucked prose aren't worth the electrons I'm wasting on them. Howl for the cauldron of language that flames hot and flares its votive consolation of words, words beyond speaking, sounds before hearing, begotten not created, man made and sundered, all under El, living, lasting, seeking, unfeeling, dying and rising, shrieking, screaming, calling, moaning, falling with Lucifer to the airplane crashed earth.<br /><br />In the beginning was the word. Howl.Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-493414737362169702011-08-30T12:36:52.644+10:002011-08-30T12:36:52.644+10:00Dr Laurence J Peters: "noblest of all dogs i...Dr Laurence J Peters: "noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it."<br /><br />CheersMinicapthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13421626155178200181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-61865276164062351122011-08-30T11:08:46.401+10:002011-08-30T11:08:46.401+10:00Bruce Dawe is referring to the Peter Principle:
h...Bruce Dawe is referring to the Peter Principle:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle<br /><br />"The Peter Principle states that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently."<br /><br />Keep the posts coming Professor. I'm enjoying them all.Walter Plingenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-9795145430947579052011-08-30T11:00:45.412+10:002011-08-30T11:00:45.412+10:00Anonymous, you are not wasting your time - unless ...Anonymous, you are not wasting your time - unless you are certain already know what happened. Bay of Pigs is a largely exposed conspiracy. The collapse of the Alfred P. Murrah building is not. There are too many anomalies with many of the historical events of recent times to possibly be able to "know".<br /><br />Did Steven E. Jones, Professor of Physics at 30000-student Brigham Young University, Utah find forensic evidence of thermate or thermite created sphericals in dust at the WTC collapse? If he did, how did they get there?<br /><br />You might want to dismiss this all as "tea party" right wing nutter conspiracy theory - but if there is no theory there is no theory - just people asking forensic questions trying to explain physical realities in terms of acceptable cause and effect science.<br /><br />So how did "African" get written alongside "Race" in a 1961 US government document?<br /><br />Love to read intellectuals - and maybe you could surprise me.PhillipGeorge(c)2011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-30830252352526494932011-08-30T10:50:22.916+10:002011-08-30T10:50:22.916+10:00Musa's poetry was bad enough, but then they as...Musa's poetry was bad enough, but then they asked him to think on the spot. How did he describe Abbott? Wingnut? Wordsmith!arnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-59580118097695657272011-08-30T10:08:50.623+10:002011-08-30T10:08:50.623+10:00Actually the most normal cry is "BALLLLLLLLLL...Actually the most normal cry is "BALLLLLLLLLLLL" ad infinitum. Other than that pretty much on the money. World War 3 could start but what about so and so's hammy or so and so's suspension......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com