Avaunt

I would appreciate that a LOT. Thanks mate. Will PM you an address.

To be fair to him, he wasn't exactly a denier?

He just didn't want to keep it current, his reasons being other countries get to say "Welp, that was bad of us" and it becomes accepted that they said so, and they don't have to keep saying so.

To be honest, we none of us have clean hands, and Japan has been an exemplary member of the International Community ever since the 1950s. FAR better in every possible way than the Nations most prone to scream "OH BUT THAT SHRINE YOU PRAY AT ! ! !".

China is AT PRESENT torturing an entire culture to death. Korea ( or part there of ) ditto. That isn't the past, that is now, and if someone points it out, do they say "Oh, yeah" and begin to obey International Law ?

This is my eye-rolling.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5426/production/_125824512_824f15aa-90e4-4d36-941c-9bbe91280872.jpg

How you know you live in a fascist police state.

People are starving, the economy has not even enough money to run the pumps that provide WATER to the homes of the middle class, but the obese police officers have starched, ironed, perfectly clean uniforms on their egregious paunches, the latest gas masks at three hundred dollars a pop, as they stand, indignant, mob-handed, while a single minion tear-gasses a crowd that has children and women in it.

We don't need the mogg-et running your show, it is wartime for goodness sake.

poo-tin came out with the Imperial We about Johnson.

"We don't like him and he doesn't like Us"

I googled it too, with book cover images, which for me is a sure fire memory aid, if I have seen a cover even once I am very likely to remember.

Never seen any of the books I suspect. Which is curious given 52 books, and all the years I have spent in secondhand shops in Aussie and NZ.

We did get DAW books published here though.

What is this ?

I never heard of this, which astounds me. Must have been one of the publishing houses that did not get import rights into NZ I suspect.

Finally something tattoo worthy.

Quincy Delight Jones Jr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones#Early_life

Just think of what he has seen, learned, taught, endured. Age 14 introduces himself to an already performing 16 year old Ray Charles . . .

I know it is the common human experience, and always has been, but I have a sense of personal dread, of how mere duration is working away at My World, so it seems every day to be diminished and constricting. But then remember/console myself that I lived when Bowie performed, was alive when the King of Rock and Roll was still the True Quill . . . Saw Ali fight in real time.

tl:dr tigger is feeling nostalgic

The whole subject just horrifies me. We, ( the rest of the "democracies" I mean. in all our flavours ) NEED the USA to function without this obvious mental imbalance, all this bad joss.

The entire point of the place, imho, is as a big vibrant, melting-pot hyper-achieving advertisement for NOT backing a bloke from your tribe who promises to secure the watering hole over the bodies of the people on the other side of the hill.

If it is so fragile that one cunning ex-secret policeman can manipulate it into dysfunction . . .

If this shit goes on much longer, us Kiwis are going to just have to take over the world for your own sakes. And we are not going to be happy at all that effort and disturbance, we are apathetic by choice.

Yep. As soon as it is THEIR partisan cause that has been given the OK, they support the law.

Otherwise, anything right up to armed insurrection is on the menu.

Needs more Tiger. People shouldn't need telling, Tigers is Stylish.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/e/ee/Tawky_Tawny_Prime_Earth_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140523180710

That and the "sleep well, little tigger, all the Wampires got killed" mantra I prefer to sleep to.

That there is Classic JasonT.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15090124/

No, I did not watch ANY of these trailers. But I thought of you guys as I recoiled in concern from the nurse with the . . . things? . . . mandibles, I suspect, in her face-mask.

I prefer my vampire novels to be "The Stalwart Heroes hunted the vile undead down, and eradicated the threat !"

Hahaha Interzone, the Anglicans of Sci-Fi Publishing.

I couldn't say.

I would be more likely to shout abuse at them for the slavish following and their poor taste.

"Read something worth reading, you oiks !"

You know, if my inner-curmudgeon was to riot and tie up my  outer-gentle-uncle.

They gave my new niece to her Uncle Nick to hold, because Delilah is a not-sleeping-to-your-schedule baby. And Nick fell instantly asleep himself, holding her, and she cried about that but you can't wake Nick with a bat. So after 15 minutes she wore down and slept. His brother Sam thinks they might make it an official position which comes with a hat.

I am crushed with shame.

( Spoiler. Am too resilient for this to be more than a hiccup in my crime-trail of talking without thinking. )

That is how you identify inveterate sinners. They SAY sorry. They even ARE sorry. But then immediately, the joking, the half conscious determination to be bad again . . .

I hang my head in shame.

I doubly approve of the Cat. Well named, and perfectly hued.

Us Tigers are just so damned stylish !.

Oh, and congrats on the marrying thing . . . let love thrive.

Yeah. And interestingly his perfect conviction that he has the inside goss, sometimes convinces reality to go along with him, or so it seemed to me when I read the books.

I remember one part where a whole cult just get convinced that their take on a situation is wrong, when Serverian is literally internal monologuing that he doesn't know what the truth is, but he is going to stick to his story anyway.

I loved those books. I ought to read them again.

What I always enjoyed * about his writing is, you are never in doubt about what he MEANS to portray to you, even if by that I mean "This character is also confused and wondering about recent events, just as you are. They ALSO are spooked, and concerned".

However, below that level there is always food for thought, grounds for speculation, amaze to muse on, in his writing. The characters encounter things, and you can enthrall your wonder-bump for an age, speculating on what has brought that thing or event to be. And often and often some really interesting event is merely depicted, not explained. OR the character "explains" it and you think "Nah mate, nice try, but you are only a character in the play, you don't know any more than I do".

* At least since I was old enough to understand not everything is what it seems, in storyland.

GLEN COOK ! ! ! ! ( edit to add, The Instrumentalities of the Night series was REALLY good, explored just what it would actually mean to Man if there WERE supernatural beings, and gods above.

*spoiler* it would be bad. )

And YES YES YES, the Garrett P.I. tales are some excellent and amusing works. I loved them to bits, 30 years ago. However, the Black Company books were also pretty great, Grim long before Grim first publicly grimaced. And in a kind of existential way that I imagine you would like. At the time, they were not sold here or in Australia consistently, in the dark ages before internetweb , down here we relied on publishing houses "Pushing into the Deep Southern Latitudes". Time and time again, we would get a couple of books of a series, then they would drop them from the import list because of lack of interest.

When you guys got me into Erikson I flashed back to The Black Company, in the first book especially.

The technical writing aspect, he is very good, but no Iain M. Banks.

Yes, that was what I meant about voting for her because of her opponent. I just dislike the way she spoke and acted, she seemed totally self interested, to me. This was a mere personal take on it, I just felt she was amoral.

Her political stance was in line with my preferences, and it wasn't anything about how different she is to me. Our ex-prime minister, Helen Clark could hardly BE more different to me, but her whole demeanor and attitude was

"I will do these things, I support these causes, I will endeavor to be fair to every person but these are the causes I feel strongest about" and you believed it, she was truthful.

H.Clinton just seemed false and self serving to me, every time she spoke. I just didn't trust her.

It is pretty telling about Clark, that she was so secure in her position, people trusted her, she got re-elected and people didn't feel strongly opposed to her, even her opponents. We trusted her. Then she did something quite meaningless but totally WRONG ( She signed a piece of art for a charity auction, allowing the people to buy it thinking she had made it herself ) and just like that, she had no show.