Farewell Poet Leonard Cohen

"In those days, the old man said, Sydney and especially the Northern Beaches were just floating in an ocean of pure heroin with little blotting paper squares of LSD on the wave peaks...but there was no peer pressure to indulge...and I was of a literary bent anyway, rather than a musical one, so my intention was to spend my life writing very depressing melancholic poetry and neither heroin or LSD were helpful to that 'genre'...I just bought a lot of books and read them...fortunately, just up the road in the Hunter Valley the good Shiraz with amazing head-killing histaminic tannins in it was coming out at $6 a bottle, 10 years old. Mind you, if the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen up to that time in my life, Sally Martin, had asked me to indulge in the narcotics with her, I probably would have...but she never asked and I've never been one to impose. Sigh. My brother Bob, who I had fights with when 6, grew to be the most generous of all of us Fitzpatricks and bought me a bottle of South AUSTRALIA'S FINEST Penfolds 1953 Grange Hermitage...21 years old... for my 21st birthday, and we drank it together, respectfully. I remember the taste of that still...it was perfect raisins in the free-based bliss of the sun designed by a Loving God. I could never afford an addiction to that magnificent substance, so I had to basically live my life only addicted to cigarettes and a few occasional Cuban cigars, a good red now and then, and my favourite really depressing books mostly written by very depressed Germans...books....regrets, yep, a few."

"In those days, the old man said, Sydney and especially the Northern Beaches were just floating in an ocean of pure heroin with little blotting paper squares of LSD on the wave peaks...but there was no peer pressure to indulge...and I was of a literary bent anyway, rather than a musical one, so my intention was to spend my life writing very depressing melancholic poetry and neither heroin or LSD were helpful to that 'genre'...I just bought a lot of books and read them...fortunately, just up the road in the Hunter Valley the good Shiraz with amazing head-killing histaminic tannins in it was coming out at $6 a bottle, 10 years old. Mind you, if the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen up to that time in my life, Sally Martin, had asked me to indulge in the narcotics with her, I probably would have...but she never asked and I've never been one to impose. Sigh.
My brother Bob, who I had fights with when 6, grew to be the most generous of all of us Fitzpatricks and bought me a bottle of South AUSTRALIA'S FINEST Penfolds 1953 Grange Hermitage...21 years old... for my 21st birthday, and we drank it together, respectfully. I remember the taste of that still...it was perfect raisins in the free-based bliss of the sun designed by a Loving God. I could never afford an addiction to that magnificent substance, so I had to basically live my life only addicted to cigarettes and a few occasional Cuban cigars, a good red now and then, and my favourite really depressing books mostly written by very depressed Germans...books....regrets, yep, a few."

Yes, Australian Military weapons costs come from Australian Foreign Aid money: Humanitarian Bombing of Cities...for their health, well being and quality of life.

As for Trump=War, Obama=Peace...The US Airforce, under Obama, is currently bombing 6 nations every single day....but of course, only ever the bad people, and for their own good. the Australians call this Humanitarian Bombing and draw funds for their military invasions from their foreign aid budget to support the USA war machine.

Interesting Comrades...A friend of mine, 45, Jimbo, is a mad fascist, anti Jew, anti-....well, arabs, blacks, everyone except gays etc. Moderately educated white guy, health professional. I'm 63, moderately educated white guy, health professional...a communist by philosophy and a libertarian by nature. I don't hate jews nor any particular religious group at all, I don't hate any races except a bit of despising obese white Australians and old people riding around in supermarkets on mobility scooters... both of us are equally overjoyed that Trump won. Neither of us are Americans, but we are both very happy. The old notions of Left V Right are fused from the edges and burning fiercely into the middle.

Interesting Comrades...A friend of mine, 45, Jimbo, is a mad fascist, anti Jew, anti-....well, arabs, blacks, everyone except gays etc. Moderately educated white guy, health professional.

I'm 63, moderately educated white guy, very pro-transexual, health professional...a communist by philosophy and a libertarian by nature. I don't hate jews nor any particular religious group at all, I'm very very pro-refugees and support the UNHCR every month, I don't hate any races except a bit of despising obese white Australians and old people riding around in supermarkets on mobility scooters...

Now, both Jimbo and I, both of us, are equally overjoyed that Trump won. Neither of us are Americans, but we are both very happy with both Brexit & Trump. The old notions of Left V Right are fused from the edges and burning fiercely into the middle. These are interesting times and, indeed, good times...apart from the dissolving economy.

PLanning for the Melboune move...removalist costs being more expensive between Cairns and Melbourne than moving the same gear from Thailand to Melbourne to Cairns 2 years ago. Someone is making a good profit. Getting the Nissan Navara Dual Cab ready, a blanket and pillow for Raphael riding Cobain with the 12 gauge...with Lenny in the tray with the kittens.

Planning for the Melboune move...removalist costs being more expensive between Cairns and Melbourne than moving the same gear from Thailand to Melbourne to Cairns 2 years ago. Someone is making a good profit.
Getting the Nissan Navara Dual Cab ready, a blanket and pillow for Raphael riding Cobain with the 12 gauge...with Lenny in the tray strangling the kittens.

Goodness me, middle class students setting fire to a garbage bin, and taking selfies with it! Obviously Revolutionary Marxists!

We are all terrified now.