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Mike's
Pith & Wind - High
anxiety
Nothing provokes anxiety in me like an impending
trip. It doesn’t seem to matter where or
why I’m going on the trip, just the notion
of the trip has me jumpy. Knowing that I’m
flying just makes it worse. A trip to Adelaide
in the van is intrinsically boring but I’ll
probably sleep sort of OK the night before we
graunch out of Melbourne, but just knowing that
I’m flying somewhere destroys any chance
of sleep the night before departure.
This time’s even worse than usual. Dick
got (cheap) tickets for a 7.10 departure to Auckland
from Melbourne tomorrow morning, which means no
sleep tonight is absolutely guaranteed. The upside
is that this P&W’s finally getting written,
but I’m so anxious there’s no knowing
whether I’ll alight on a worthwhile subject
or not.
Still, that’s never been a hindrance in
the past, so onward and upwards.
Dick originally planned to go to New Zealand solo,
but the opportunity was too good to resist and
at Maria’s insistence I have since joined
Dick’s party of one. Maria also insisted
that I finish the song for my mum that I’d
begun a couple of years ago so I can present it
to her in person. That I was happy to do as my
efforts in the studio have been dismal for the
last ten years at least. I’m lucky to have
a cheerful space to work in now, but there is
an awful lot of, mostly technical, information
to reacquaint myself with in order to produce
the simplest of songs.
Lucky then that my song for Mum is very..
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Dick's
Toolbox -
I'm with stupid..
There
are a lot of stupid people in the world. There
are a lot more now than when I was young. By my
rough calculation there are at least one and a
half billion vaguely mentally inadequate inhabitants
of the globe at the moment. This is a rise of
about one billion, two hundred million since I
was born. A lot of them can vote even if they
can’t read, write, or walk and chew gum
at the same time. (The correct Texan version of
this as favoured by the late President Lyndon
Baines Johnson talking about Gerald Ford is, “He
can’t walk and fart at the same time.”)
Gerald Ford succeeded Richard Nixon after his
resignation. He granted Nixon a "full, free,
and absolute pardon" for any criminal acts
he might have committed while president which
was a ‘Get Out of Jail Free” card
if there ever was one for a President who was
about to be impeached for all the shenanigans
around the Watergate conspiracy. One can only
give you another quote from President Johnson
about Ford. "He's.. read
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