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Monthly Archives June 2007

Jimmy Dinamite

Just lately it started happening. Whenever I’m out at night, he turns up. He says his name is “Jimmy Dinamite”, and he is Japanese, with an afro, and always, always, huge sunglasses covering his face. Beneath the sunglasses he has bright white teeth - for he is always grinning - and a goatee beard. I […]

Posted 25 June 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Summer Ball

Here’s a picture of me and Oriana before the Summer Ball on Saturday night:

Posted 19 June 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Free copies of “My Reality”

If you get in quick, you might just be able to get a copy of Total Cardboard’s latest publication for free. The Australia Council for the Arts, through its website theProgram, has some copies to give away here:
http://www.theprogram.net.au/giveaways.asp
… Only available for a few more days!

Posted 12 June 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Farmer

Did you know that one of the main reasons why humans started settling down in one place was so that they could grow vegetables?
In that sense, I am re-enacting the evolution from the age of nomadry.
I now have little plants for: zucchini, peppers, carrots, parsely, basil, coriander, tomatoes and beans. Perhaps not quite enough to […]

Posted 05 June 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Get Active, Not Ideological

It has occurred to me that political radicals have been making a serious error for the last hundred years or so.
Since the mid-19th century, activists have habitually railed against “capitalism” as the fount of evil. The two most distinguishable incarnations of this have been the Old Left of communism / radical socialism, where capitalism was […]

Posted 02 June 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (1) °