October 22, 2009 – 7:17 am
By the way, I’m only moving into a different house because my sweetie and I want to buy one together that is truly ‘ours’ if you know what I mean – Roger Stolle, Cathead Music with a new twist on why you’d sell a house
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Music, Some places I've been
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Tagged Cathead Music, Clarksdale, Hernando de Soto, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Quapaw Canoe Company, Quiz-Quiz, Roger Stolle, Sunflower River
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October 21, 2009 – 9:40 am
Every Secret Thing is one of the best books written about life in the Northern Territory since Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia – that’s a pretty big call but I reckon this book is just as funny, brave and deadly serious as that grumpy old curmudgeon’s masterpiece.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Some places I've been, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged central Arnhem Land, David Unaipon Award, Every Secret Thing, Mainoru River, Marie Munkara, NT Literary Awards, Tiwi Islands, University of Queensland Press, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia
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October 4, 2009 – 9:50 pm
One time I nearly hit a cow, it was like really close!. I think by now I can distinguish dead cow, dead kangaroo, dead bird – by the smell (laughs). It is not very pleasant…sometimes it it get’s stuck in your nose.
September 16, 2009 – 9:24 pm
After spending a long time in the desert’s too-harsh-between-10am-and-3pm light it is a relief on the eyes to get into some comparatively soft northern lights, though of course the heat and humidity of a September build-up does always take some getting used to.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Birds, Photography, Some places I've been
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Tagged Australian White Ibis, Broome Bird Observatory, Brown Goshawk, Derby Wetlands, Good light in Broome, Little Friarbird, Neil Murray, Peaceful Dove, Royal Spoonbill, The Wondering Kind, Torresian Crow
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Over the last few years, Paul Kelly has performed a series of unique shows under the banner ‘A to Z’, whereby he sings 100 songs from his catalogue in alphabetical order over 4 nights.
I was camped beside the road en-route to Warmun in Western Australia earlier this week and thought that the rising moon and passing roadtrains might provide some images of interest…
Roadkill will come in handy when next you run into a Black Kite as it lifts, engorged with rotting flesh and on struggling wings, off a carcass on the roadside – or when you run into a wombat, a snake, a horse…you get the drift.
$5 entry, $3 beer – no fire or liquor licenses or other permits or authorities – and Po’ Monkey vigorously enforces his own strict set of rules – no baseball caps, no guns, no baggy-ass pants – this effectively excludes young teenage gangsters from the lounge – no fighting, no beer bought in and no dope smoking.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, Uncategorized
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Tagged ABC, Bolivar county, Cleveland, Delta State University, DJ candy, Good Morning America, jook joint, Luther Brown, Memphis Tennessee, Merigold, Mississippi delta, New York Times, Po' Monkeys, Poor Monkey's jook joint, Southern Spaces, Willie Seaberry
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