What a strange feeling to watch Mitch Winehouse, father of the Amy who died young, telling the camera after her death how he felt it was not his place to save her. You can’t force treatment on somebody, he says, and shrugs. Meantime he is running the Amy Winehouse Foundation, his income derived from her […]
Visited my twitter account & brushed all the cobwebs away. I could write a book: Twitter, I’m Doing It Wrong. See I set up umpteen channels, so as not to bore people who don’t want straight poetry, no chaser (@cathoeljorss), or neologisms (@inventedword) or neologisms by other people (@inventedwords). I made @exmalcolmfraser to share wisdoms […]
Eddie McGuire, prominent Australian broadcaster, compares Adam Goodes, respected Aboriginal footballer, to King Kong. The conversation, outraged on both sides, focuses on whether or not Eddie “is” racist. Thus it gets nowhere because no one can establish what lurks in the depths of his heart. If a child gets run over “by accident”, or because […]
