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DonkeyBlog: Read your entry in "Who's Nobody"

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Sunday, January 06, 2013. Read your entry in "Who's Nobody". It’s hard to pin-down exactly what turned Breaking Bad’s. There’s nothing like returning to one’s home town to bring back all kinds of latent memories, and in particular, to drag from one’s closet - clackety clackety –. What would tip a mild-mannered, failed podiatrist into a Walter White -esque. Homicidal maniac. Pic: http:/ www.entertainment-bureau.com. Oh I am laughing/crying. You cannot be too poor if you can rent anything south of Boganton...

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DonkeyBlog: Fighting the good fight

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Sunday, December 16, 2012. Fighting the good fight. A rare encounter with truth and honesty. Isn’t it amazing how much more difficult it is to try to do something properly, compared with the relative ease of simply shooting one’s mouth off with whatever vacuousities. Pop into one’s cavernous skull at any given moment? This might seem a little surprising to the reader who knows Tibet only as a seat of Buddhist enlightenment, but it’s not uncommon in societies whose culture and practices have not bee...

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DonkeyBlog: April 2013

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Sunday, April 14, 2013. The discussion topics on offer at the summit have encompassed lengthy soul-searching on setting-up Early Warning Systems. Which can be operated as soon as the initial signs of a disaster are imminent, so as to alert communities and other parties to prepare for the coming danger. There have also been detailed explanations of working with communities and various groups on Disaster Preparedness and Response. Failing to heed this important Early Warning Sign. In reflection, it’s...

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DonkeyBlog: March 2012

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Thursday, March 29, 2012. 100 Miles and Runnin'. A return to rambling. For me, personally, my biggest influence here had been NWA, the Niggaz With Attitude. Sure, it was probably tracks with exciting, risqué names like Fuck the Police. That got me listening in the first place, but what I really came to love was the theatrics of many of their tracks, and in particular, the great story telling. My favourite was 100 Miles and Runnin'. The main event – Back in the Pac. Prison breakouts have occurred. Cri...

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DonkeyBlog: Way too much information

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Sunday, April 07, 2013. Way too much information. Anyone whose worked in corporate customer service in the last 30 years has probably had to sit through a couple of those Gawd-awful, John Cleese-type training videos featuring starving, D-grade actors who’ve sold their Oscar dreams down the river for a couple of bucks performing two-dimensional skits for brain-dead desk jockeys and call centre clerks. 8220;Good morning, welcome to The Astoria! My name is Donkey and I am your friendly, enthusiastic and rea...

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DonkeyBlog: If looks could kill

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Friday, August 08, 2014. If looks could kill. The message must have been delivered with considerable fire and brimstone as it cut through my inebriation sufficiently that upon sobering up, I tidied-up my act and set about trying to catch-up on years of missed learning. At about the time my commitment started to kick-in, I recall having to work with a group of my fellow students to research and deliver an instructive presentation on the role of body language in practitioner-patient communication. Such as ...

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DonkeyBlog: September 2012

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Monday, September 24, 2012. Would you like balls with that? What is it about working in the food service industry that makes transvestites so angry, uptight and aggressive? But what is it about dressing transvestites in civvies and standing them out front-of-house in classy restaurants and eateries that makes them so friggin’ surly and offensive? My first experience with a grumpy transvestite waiter/ess was many years ago while working as a lowly volunteer in wonderful Samoa. Off her groaning stool and t...

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DonkeyBlog: May 2012

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Wednesday, May 09, 2012. You live and learn. Not being the most hirsute Donkey in the barnyard, it stands to reason that I'll rarely be spotted out in daylight without a hat. Currently I'm sporting a pretty awful, woven straw number which makes me look like the scariest, pig-rooting yokel in the County, but better that than a scone coated with weeping sores and liver spots like C. Montgomery Burns. I was desperate by the time I got to a food court for a final meal, just hours before we were due to take-o...

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DonkeyBlog: November 2012

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Tuesday, November 06, 2012. Ego: it is a dirty word. The lack of anything like it where I live was all the justification I needed while in the Regional Capital this week to take an hour out from the gruelling schedule of world-saving talk fests to go for a long swim in the National Olympic Pool. Oh hang on … that’s right … phlegm! I was just coming around for another turn at the Northern end of the pool when I was again, suddenly snapped-out of my musings. “Whoa! What is that stench? The Chinese hot spri...