Posts by merc
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James you have nailed it. I laugh when I'm told by people about the investment property tax depreciation they get back, like am I supposed to be happy for them and forget that they riding on my tax? We don't have an investment property so we never get invited anywhere for dinner, now I know why, I got to get me some of that depreciation mojo. I love the comments in the Herald from the politicians with investment properties, Pillay sort of inferred she did it as a public good, because, you know, the poor people need housing. I don't want to be a landlord because, you know, come the revolution, first they look for the callouses then they find your depreciation stash in the boot of the Chrysler.
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Eugenics were practised here, in Dunedin in the mental health system, sterilisation for the mentally impaired, I got that from An Angel At My Table, Janet Frame.
Advertising you can blame on the Copyists (bloody monks), hence the term Copywriter, hence newspaper copy. Around 1900 in America some bright spark copy editor worked out you could sell the stuff, started with classified mostly and like our friends the realtors, wrote the copy for the client. Then came WW2, Himmler I think had an ad background, the swastika was in fact Goering's family symbol etched into a family fireplace, they simply reversed it, you need a good logo. Alot of ad people end up being paid by politicians, in fact there is an argument for Saatchi shaping some countries. Michael Wall of the cossacks fame was an ad man, failed politican. Mayor Harvey was an ad man. Now PR is a different kettle of fish. -
The add men probably owe more to Bandura and Milgram than they do to Watson and Skinner.
Yes very true. I was more into Bill Bernbach at the time though in deep Faust denial. Advertising is dead, for me anyway. When I went to bandacamp, I mean University as an adult student to study said Watson and Skinner, I was mortified to learn that as an ex-copywriter I was a real study for the hierarchy...in how to promote the Department and it's courses, bad sign.
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Where words are, fear is not.
One day Mr Riddley I suspect you will have your own publishing adventure, if you so choose. Me, I couldn't write a novel to save myself (well I could fudge one), something about extending the line, but many have, many and worthy.
Post number of the beast loometh, 14 to go...I sound like the brother in The Wasp Factory, however forever departing, he was as I recall forever arriving. Brilliant novel that, if only for the altar, with the dogs head, ah fetishes, where would we be without them? -
Everyone's a winner! Ralphie. Now I've run out of words...
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New film set tomorrow, they say I'll be playing the President, heh, The Governor was great, this should be an emmy.
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Well it's a Ghost Train ride for sure, every cliche that could happen, happened, but it was brilliant fun and I met some fantastic people, some of whom are now dead. Merc was published in 2001, I completely over identified with the archetype (Mercurius, the trickster, the coyote, the daemon). I have written 3 more books since and one huge long poem because I thought I should (115 pages me precious), but life and events conspired to send me away from publishing ever again.
Still, I look at those older books and I say, yeah, good enough. -
Bite the hand that feeds.
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That's brilliant, do The Gipper.