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The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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Blitz Martial Arts Magazine, Vol.28, No.11, November 2014
Combat Karate is a truly modern martial art that integrates skills and techniques from a variety of styles, based on founder Martin Day’s considerable experience in the fighting arts. Few instructors can claim a pedigree equal to Martin’s. Day served in the British Army for twenty years before founding his own style.
“I can’t say everything for security reasons,” says Martin at the outset of our discussion, “Because I signed the ‘Official Secrets Act’ when I left the British Army.” Continue reading
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I feel responsible. I feel that I must do something like Flanagan, or Tolstoy. Anything less is a waste of everyone’s time – both yours, and mine. If I think about it too much, there’s not even time enough to go to work. Continue reading
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The last twelve to eighteen months have taught me that if you put something on the internet, everybody will see it. People rarely comment on-line, but I seem to get all kinds of bizarre responses when I see them in public, ranging from facial expressions that look like they’ve swallowed a bullfrog (and are struggling to keep it down) to, ‘What’s with all the leather gear?’ Or even, ‘Are you a Satanist?’ Continue reading
Your humble narrator was fortunate enough to be quoted in The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald today on the subject of cage fighting in Victoria.
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/blood-is-proof-of-life-20141206-121oze.html
Epilogue
“Forget everything anybody says or does; everything is a cry, please love me.”
-Hafiz,
Sufi poet. Continue reading
12: The Heart of the Problem
“I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but
I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it
I had hoped you’d see my face and that you’d be reminded
That for me, it isn’t over…”
-Adele,
Someone Like You
I’ve been driving around in the yellow Monaro with Adele blaring from the stereo (not very rock and roll). Continue reading
11: Adventures in the Musee de l’Orangerie
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
-Albert Ellis
After Eurydice’s stalker allegation, I gave it another two months (I figured this showed dedication, but fell safely outside the stalker criteria), and wrote again. Continue reading
10: The Reason She’s in the Tower
“You need to cut all the ‘knight in shining armour’ bullshit! Look, if she’s in a tower, it’s because someone has put her in there for a reason! She’s been put there because she’s fucking crazy!’
– Erin Gill.
I have been labelled a stalker once before. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 