Please Don't Bury Me John Prine

China is always in the Negative News ever since Trump destroyed the trade agreements etc. There was never anything much about the Uighurs or the Hong Kongers etc, or Chinese control of the Whole Universe until Trump had problems because he couldn't fuck them up...because he isnt as smart as they are. Ever since he's had this problem, the Western media and some western Governments...the USA, the UK, and Tiny Australia, have been beating the shit out of China, and China has been very respectful in its ongoing reaffirmation of itself, its identity and its system. We immediately stopped beating up North Korea, and Saudi Arabia. I expect as soon as the USA and China find a new trade deal, and Trump's re-election campaign gets serious, then the negative news will instantly stop. That's the way that the world goes round.

A Hong Kong University Student who destroys a train station must come to the realisation that they won't be able to catch a train to Uni. The station won't be fixed up for quite some time. There will be no money for that. This is not politics. This is consequence.

Bonkers in Hongkers:Hopefully the run of 'self harm' protest activities in Hong Kong will settle down now. The Chinese government certainly won't interfere in problems that are the making of Hong Kong folk. That's what living in an autonomous province of China is really all about. Expecting the world to save you from having a good life is an odd and self-destructive wish indeed. The human condition is like this sometimes.

HONKERS:I guess my level of understanding of the situation in Hong Kong is that a lot, but not most people there, especially the young, are going through what we would call the phenomenon of "Self Harm" perhaps because of bizarre goal driven parenting and a sense of lack of personal esteem, and a feeling of unworthiness of the self. That would explain the protests pretty well. In the long term, and it will be very long term, the government should really invest more in mental health services and in the well being of its young folk facing the same changes young folk everywhere face these days. Its getting a bit "Lord of the Flies" there just now.

Blossoms on a Moonlit River in Spring | 春江花月夜

《梁祝》 Butterfly Lovers ErHu Concerto 指揮/閻惠昌 二胡/孫凰

I told you so. The Chinese Government will NOT interfere in the Hong Kong situation. Yes, Honkers can pull itself to pieces and hate itself for being Chinese, but, it still is Chinese, and it still is China. Hong Kong has real Autonomy, and this is what they are doing with it. Attacking and destroying themselves. "We will destroy everything, our own future, please, please, attack us! Control us so that we may be martyrs!" Nope. You're just being very very silly. Do what you want, destroy what there is to destroy of yourselves. Take a decade. That's up to you. No one else in China is actively trying to destroy themselves, they're too busy having reasonably good and improving lives, going to work, educating the kids, getting 5G and 6G, connecting up with the world, eating steak and drinking Penfolds Grange Hermitage and buying gold, and sending the bright kids off to good universities in the USA and the UK and in Beijing and Japan and Germany. Be as poor and vicious and as exceptional as you need to be.

BOB MARLEY - CD COMPLETO

Well done, players! Today was a Great Win! Every now and again, though rarely, Australia achieves something. Today, equal pay parity between the professional Australian Womens Football (Soccer) Teams and the Mens teams. That's good...and the womens team are much better quality players too. About time! Well done Australia! Well done Australian Womens Football collective-union! The money is there if you are prepared to fight for it and take it. That's a hefty healthy wage! More power to you! That's the World Game!

One more afternoon work shift to go, that will make it 5 in a row. That's more than enough. Then 3 days off. Off to the doctors on Wednesday as they wish to tell me the results of an abdominal ultrasound. Liver damage? Perhaps. I probably deserve it. It's just what I've always wanted. I guess it was that 1953 vintage Penfolds Grange Hermitage wine my brother Bob bought for me when I turned 21, in 1974, and, rather than investing the money in the stock market, or hiding the bottle away in the vast cellarin Narrabeen, we just drank it together. That was a nice bottle of red. Have I had better? Nope. If you have had the really good gear once, then, why do you have to ever do that again? If so, that'll make 2019 quite a year...the 3rd heart attack, glaucoma, mental health stuff, and...liver disease. Whoopee! Oh good! We Senior Baby Boomers have sure got some fucking bounce to us! And, still smoking. Kind of proud of that now. I Still haven't resorted to wearing the polyester pants up high above my belly button, with a plastic belt, teamed with a polyester shirt, dank green cardigan and New Balance comfort running shoes...and just spending all my time at the doctors or the RSL and voting for the conservative cunts... but I might, should I ever get out of wearing my pyjamas and slippers everywhere. The post-war Baby Boomers generation was pretty amazing...we elected Australia's only ever socialist government that created Medicare, free University Education, financial support for single mums, anti discrimination legislation, strong environmental agencies, good immigration policies, and strong unions that brought great wage growth and work permanency etc for many decades...and that Government of Mr Whitlam's did all that in only ....2 years in power. It's been downhill since for a long time now. Imagine Woolworths not paying people fairly...really...Woolworths...all the wage theft, the whole gig-economy is simply wage theft...and no one is even really upset about it. People are more upset now about someone else eating a chicken wing...and people go crazy and decompensate if there's a black out for an hour...oh my god... not judging, just noticing. Off to make some toast and tea, it being midnight. Might journey out at 3am and DJ a non-binary co-op anti-fascist rave, in my Vegan Doc Martens, snort crack brown brown with gunpowder, and sit on the stoop wit my homies, Raphael, Lenny and that other kid, Leroy, and blow some smoke, drop a few bricks, lick some hoes, and bust some caps in skinny white cops asses, yo. Respect. 21st Century Australia...its Culture: You dissin' me, you old white cunt? Well, now that you mention it...let me think... hmmmm...yes, I am dissin' you...and, I might add, I am uncomfortable with the term 'hero', if you don't mind.

One more afternoon work shift to go, that will make it 5 in a row.
That's more than enough.
Then 3 days off.
Off to the doctors on Wednesday as they wish to tell me the results of an abdominal ultrasound. Liver damage? Perhaps. I probably deserve it. It's just what I've always wanted. I guess it was that 1953 vintage Penfolds Grange Hermitage wine my brother Bob bought for me when I turned 21, in 1974, and, rather than investing the money in the stock market, or hiding the bottle away in the vast cellarin Narrabeen, we just drank it together. That was a nice bottle of red. Have I had better? Nope. If you have had the really good gear once, then, why do you have to ever do that again?
If so, that'll make 2019 quite a year...the 3rd heart attack, glaucoma, mental health stuff, and...liver disease. Whoopee!
Oh good! We Senior Baby Boomers have sure got some fucking bounce to us!
And, still smoking.
Kind of proud of that now.
I Still haven't resorted to wearing the polyester pants up high above my belly button, with a plastic belt, teamed with a polyester shirt, dank green cardigan and New Balance comfort running shoes...and just spending all my time at the doctors or the RSL and voting for the conservative cunts... but I might, should I ever get out of wearing my pyjamas and slippers everywhere.
The post-war Baby Boomers generation was pretty amazing...we elected Australia's only ever socialist government that created Medicare, free University Education, financial support for single mums, anti discrimination legislation, strong environmental agencies, good immigration policies, and strong unions that brought great wage growth and work permanency etc for many decades...and that Government of Mr Whitlam's did all that in only ....2 years in power. It's been downhill since for a long time now. Imagine Woolworths not paying people fairly...really...Woolworths...all the wage theft, the whole gig-economy is simply wage theft...and no one is even really upset about it. People are more upset now about someone else eating a chicken wing...and people go crazy and decompensate if there's a black out for an hour...oh my god... not judging, just noticing.
Off to make some toast and tea, it being midnight.
Might journey out at 3am and DJ a non-binary co-op anti-fascist rave, in my Vegan Doc Martens, snort crack brown brown with gunpowder, and sit on the stoop wit my homies, Raphael, Lenny and that other kid, Leroy, and blow some smoke, drop a few bricks, lick some hoes, and bust some caps in skinny white cops asses, yo. Respect. 21st Century Australia...its Culture: You dissin' me, you old white cunt?

Well, now that you mention it...let me think... hmmmm...yes, I am dissin' you...and, I might add, I am uncomfortable with the term 'hero', if you don't mind.

I see a minority of Hong Kong folk have brought the province into economic recession...and keep trying to get and goad the Chinese Government to crackdown on them...to make a moral point...but China isn't like other countries, and it won't do that. Hong Kong can fail if Hong Kongers wish it to, unless Hong Kongers fight back against Hong Kongers. That's why its called Autonomous. If they really wish to destroy their own livelihoods etc, for 6 months, or 6 years, they can. Feeling special, superior, and exceptional all have their real consequences. They had it pretty good compared to a hell of a lot of us.