John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Thursday, 27 November 2014
BMW Randy Mamola R1100
I must admit I like the 2002 BMW R1100 Randy Mamola Replica bike more than I like the 2002 Moto Guzzi Le Mans Le Bon Homme V1100.
Maybe it's just the blue and white colour of the BMW. They were the colours of my first bike, a Suzuki GTXF400F...a lovely machine indeed.
I mean, both the Guzzi and the BMW are bikes for wankers in many ways, and I don't mind being one...
an open road and the BM horizontal twin would be good. It won't sound as good, but it still is ok.
I would be more impassioned with the Guzzi if it really sounded good. I had a Guzzi Stone 1100 and I had the mufflers gutted by a member of the Finks, a great technician, and, you know, it still sounded pretty much like nothing...and the BM is better than nothing.
This would make a good advertising slogan for BMW motorbikes...'well, they're better than nothing.'
Maybe it's just the blue and white colour of the BMW. They were the colours of my first bike, a Suzuki GTXF400F...a lovely machine indeed.
I mean, both the Guzzi and the BMW are bikes for wankers in many ways, and I don't mind being one...
an open road and the BM horizontal twin would be good. It won't sound as good, but it still is ok.
I would be more impassioned with the Guzzi if it really sounded good. I had a Guzzi Stone 1100 and I had the mufflers gutted by a member of the Finks, a great technician, and, you know, it still sounded pretty much like nothing...and the BM is better than nothing.
This would make a good advertising slogan for BMW motorbikes...'well, they're better than nothing.'
Day Off, the first of 3
Day off, the first of 3; the various jangles of the working week jangle their way out of memory, off & into the unrecorded past. Fully gone.
Phones have been ringing from the Church but I can't always answer phones about religion. It is too personal a topic to be shared with priests.
I had a letter published in the Cairns Post again today, so that was nice. I like to see my thoughts printed out.
I stopped in on the way driving home from dropping Lisa at work at the fishing shop and bought a few jigs, a handline and some lead sinkers.
Goodness me, there must be a lot of lead sinkers in the sea.
I was going to buy an Alvey Rod and Reel for Lisa for $70 but I didn't , but I probably will. That's a good price for the best fish-catching machine known on Earth.
2 Days more off work away from the various machinations of private psychiatry...having left behind the profound burden of palliative care now. What to do?
Read a John Steinbeck novel, again, and go fishing...pick up Lisa's Alvey Rod and Reel on the way.
A few green prawns, look for a high tide and a quiet sea and just catch fish for awhile.
Life at 61. Not bad. Not bad at all.
Phones have been ringing from the Church but I can't always answer phones about religion. It is too personal a topic to be shared with priests.
I had a letter published in the Cairns Post again today, so that was nice. I like to see my thoughts printed out.
I stopped in on the way driving home from dropping Lisa at work at the fishing shop and bought a few jigs, a handline and some lead sinkers.
Goodness me, there must be a lot of lead sinkers in the sea.
I was going to buy an Alvey Rod and Reel for Lisa for $70 but I didn't , but I probably will. That's a good price for the best fish-catching machine known on Earth.
2 Days more off work away from the various machinations of private psychiatry...having left behind the profound burden of palliative care now. What to do?
Read a John Steinbeck novel, again, and go fishing...pick up Lisa's Alvey Rod and Reel on the way.
A few green prawns, look for a high tide and a quiet sea and just catch fish for awhile.
Life at 61. Not bad. Not bad at all.
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