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At last! A blog about everything
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
david thomas died
It was of course sad to hear that David Thomas died a few days ago though without wishing to be glib it seems like the last few years - quite a while before I took this picture of him in Oslo on the 11 October 2019 - he was on borrowed time, whatever that literally meant. I was a huge fan since my late teens particularly of the Pere Ubu albums mainly from Dub Housing through to Song of the Bailing Man and his subsequent solo career up to Monster Walks... though there was plenty of incredibly good stuff after that time with and without the PU name, of course.
I didn't know him, but I did really enjoy his output.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
twentieth anniversary
Hi, and welcome to what is not really the 20th anniversary of this blog. I started some time a little earlier than the 27 April 2005 but I can't remember when. I have nothing more to say. It just is. And yet at the same time it also isn't, for reasons explained above. Enjoy!
Saturday, April 26, 2025
graphic novel progress five years ago
The line was actually supposed to be 'It cuts at my skin like tiny piranha teeth you shits!' But I was hoping to find a way to make it one of those things, in the days of live television, where you wondered if someone swore but you weren't sure, it was indistinct. Well I don't know how to make that happen here.
I'm pretty pleased with the audience picture.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
other places
But even in a time before, you know, online banking and surveillance and similar shit, the question still really remains - where are they running to and why? I guess there's an innate impulse amongst human beings, when in trouble, to get out of the immediate situation and worry about the details later. Nevertheless, it's silly. If they're ever pressed for their plans they're always about to shoot through, to Sydney or Adelaide or Surfers.* Presumably until the heat dies down, and I guess if I think about it I assume that police resources (or lack thereof) do mean that a lot of things, then and now, get put on the back burner or even dropped down behind the stove, so you have to assume that if you do get away on the day you only have to stay away a short time and they'll move on to something else. The perps in D4 and Homicide of course don't know that the detectives remember every crim they've ever met, whether it's the next day or the next decade.
By the way I wish I had kept better track of the paintings on the wall since D4 went colour, because the one on the left here is in every second house. Maybe they bought special new paintings for colour TV, but not many.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
division 4: life's a gamble
Just wanted to mention how much I enjoy it when Janne Coghlan makes an appearance in Crawfords shows. What do I know about Coghlan? Really not much, except that she was on the stage a lot in the 50s-60s and then in Crawfords programs and a few other minor films up until the very early 90s, then nothing heard of her thereafter. Somewhere along the way there, for some reason, she lost the extra 'n' in 'Janne'. Here she is in the ABC Weekly for 15 May, 1954.
Let's say she was twenty then, so I guess she's 90 now if she's alive, and she was 40 or so in 1975 when she played loyal-wife-to-a-loser with Tom Oliver in the episode of D4 'Life's a gamble' (7 July 1975).
Yeah, yeah, I know. The real crime is that beard.
Well, that crime is solved about half way through the episode.
Anyway, I wonder what happened to Janne Coghlan? I suppose she retired. Let me know if you know.
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As a child, naturally enough, I watched a lot of television and it being the early 1970s when I was a child, I watched a lot of what is no...