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WolfmanOz at the Movies #118: Sergio and Ennio
Something a little different this week. When Sergio Leone directed A Fistful Of Dollars, the first of three movies starring Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name, Leone didn’t have the score until after the film had been shot. He still worked directly with composer Ennio Morricone, with whom he had actually attended primary…
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Plain English, a relic of the King James Bible?
I was innocently reading the Australian newspaper during the week; skimming and getting increasingly bored with the scribblings. Finally, on the op-ed page, I came across this sentence: It is increasingly acknowledged that the “crowding out” of civil society by the welfare state across the 20th century has atrophied local associational bonds and contributed to…
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Book Review: Running Deep
Running Deep By Peter Scott Fremantle Press, 2023, Softback, 287 pages, illustrated Reviewed by Top Ender One of the most attractive aspects of this autobiography is the honesty of the author. It takes a brave man to admit both that he took his teddy bear to sea with him, and that he had problems with…
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Trump ain’t braggadocious, he’s just always right
My inbox runneth over with arguments and data showing how misconceived is climate-change catastrophism and its ugly sister renewable energy. I am sated. No more, please. I don’t want to read that the temperature gauges have been messed with and then told that the warming is not the product of CO2. Well, what warming? Have…
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Saw my financial adviser today. Within 5 min we had established that the current lot in Canberra knew nothing about…
The biggest waste of energy was when monty’s mum and dad got in to bed one night.
a16z (Andreessen) is a genius.