tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-892871425741202572011-11-27T16:15:19.018-08:00Home blog for the Australian writer & publisher.Darryl Masonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89287142574120257.post-30695792064444622872011-06-22T07:17:00.000-07:002011-06-22T07:25:46.328-07:00

Philip K Dick's Useful, Profitable 'Madness'By Darryl MasonThe Letters Of Note site has published the controversial letters that author Philip K Dick wrote to police and the FBI in the early 1970s, naming friends and colleagues as possible enemies of America.The Letters Are HereThis is a comment I submitted to Letters Of Note, which will make more sense if you look over the Philip K Dick

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On The Information RevolutionsBy Darryl MasonAn extract from a ramble-babble I wrote in August 2006. Hadn't re-read this in a long time, but it made me smile to remember how bizarre and uminaginable it seemed in 2006 that a worldwide youth movement, driven by internet information sharing, could revolutionise the Middle East and change the face of modern global politics. And it's only

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One Summer Bondi Dreaming(I wrote most of this the night before I left Sydney to go back and live in England for another year in late April, 1999. The story is based around real events of the previous summer, living in a crumbling apartment near the cliffs of South Bondi. I only recently found the notebook and typed it up. Hope you enjoy it) By Darryl MasonSummer 1998-1999It's a November dawn on

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A comment I left at the JF Beck blog :It was Tim Flannery who said dumping sulphur out of planes might be a solution to combating global warming. Others fear-mongering global warming for personal or corporate gain have also talked up this 'solution'. It sounds like an insane plan.Weather modification isn't a conspiracy theory. I don't want to shock you, but we've been spraying stuff out of

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A comment I contributed to a post at Larvatus Prodeo on the coming reality of robot soldiers and autonomous war-fighting machines :I hope you all realise that when the robots become totally autonomous and take over they'll be searching back through internet archives to find anti-robot talk, like some of the ahove, they'll trawl archives for dissent, and they will know who to round up and target

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FatPride & FatismBy Darryl MasonFrom The Orstrahyun :Q : How do black women control crime?A : Abortion.Q : What's the difference between Santa Claus and a Jew?A : Santa Claus goes down the chimney.Q : How do you stop a poofter from drowning?A : Take your foot off his head.Q : Why did God invent alcohol?A : So fat chicks can get a root.Which of the above jokes is the most offensive?Why would so

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A long comment I contributed to this post at Grods :I was in the US for a big chunk of 2001, and up until September 11, Bush was regarded by many on the Right, and particularly in the Righty media to be a dunce, pro-illegal immigrants and soft on Islamist terrorism.Fox News, and pundits like Michelle Malkin, went after Bush hard before the September 11 attacks somehow turned Bush into Hero

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American SniperA Poem By Darryl Mason1."Kill one man, terrorise a thousand"the instructor had pointed to the signon the wall at the school where I learned to killCamp Pendleton, Californiait didn't have a fancy name, this schoollike 'tactical depopulation training'we called it what it wasSniper Schoolthree months trainingthen they sent me here"Kill one man, terrorise a thousand"he smiled when he

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How To "Cut And Run" Without "Abandoning Your Mates"This post was originally published on 'The Road To Surfdom' blogBy Darryl MasonAs expected, the wild and unhinged rantings of John Howard, Alexander Downer, Brendan Nelson and Peter Costello regarding the Kevin Rudd plan for pulling Australian troops out of Iraq, is about to bite them back in the worst way. Tony Blair is but a few hours away

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The David Hicks Hex And Mocking Phillip RuddockThis is a piece I wrote for the Road To Surfdom blog on February 20, 2006, following a nationally televised debate/forum about the five year long detention of Australian terror suspect David Hicks In Guantanamo Bay.By Darryl Mason - 'The Orstrahyun' It's not often you get to see a roomful of Australians laughing at the Attorney General, twice, in

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Why Are Movies From The Great Young Directors Of Today So Few And Far Between?Directors In the 70s Burned Up The Screens, Today's Star Directors Make Cameo AppearancesAn excellent story from the New York Times looks at why so many of the great young directors of the 1990s are so unproductive.Some of them, like Kimberly Peirce of Boys Don't Cry (1999) fame, are moving at a Kubrickian glacial pace.

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Napoleon : The Greatest Movie Stanley Kubrick Never MadeBy Darryl MasonIn 1968, 40-year-old director Stanley Kubrick had the cinematic world at his feet and one big movie project germinating in his head. Stanley Kubrick had started his career as the original independent filmmaker, at a time where it was nigh impossible to make movies outside the studios, and through the previous 15 years he had

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