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I`m not sure what it`s supposed to be. Shogetsu is the most modern school of ikebana and it`s output ranges from just plain flower arranging to stuff that`s more like modern sculpture; giant owls made out of tree trunks, frames of pink wooden chopsticks with photographs stuck on them....some very groovy stuff

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I don`t want to be a philistine, or limit art to one bourgeoise idea of chocolate-boxy realism etc

but (you knew there was a but, didn`t you?)
a lot of conceptual art is like a single-panel cartoon. That tent Emin did, gosh how clever! Wish I`d thought of it.
   Once we`ve finished saying those things, and being happy that it`s shocked people less clever and cool than ourselves, what`s left?
  My other problem with `shock` art is that it`s so safe and predictable. I mean, sleeping with quite a few people by the time you`re thirty isn`t the sort of thing that gets you tarred and feathered in the UK these days is it?

anyway, what would I know, the only kind of art I`m into these days is 2000 AD (if that counts) and Shogetsu ikebana because my wife is into it.http://www.ikebana-philadelphia.org/ev_longwood_crys_03/DCP_1068.jpg">

 I thought personnel managers where there to HELP the staff, not hinder them.
  How wrong you were! Hindering and controlling staff is inherent to the nature of personnel managers, because their part of the organisation proves its` use and existence by affecting the rest of the staff. It it was his company he`d have an interest in helping you, but as it is, he only has an interest in controlling you

Best revenge, work like a fiend until you get promoted above him. Then you can make him jump!

Salman Rushdie isn`t always good, but Midnight`s Children was fantastic and very readable. Anyway, he doesn`t count as an emporer without clothes because he`s been rubbished a lot already.

Peter Singer

Emotional Intelligence
 - both the concept and the book. The book discusses new discoveries about the brain that show that there is a part of it that reacts to stimuli without going through the `thinking` part first. The remainder of the book draws unjustified inferences from this; gist of which is that we should be more, y`know, in touch with our emotions and that there is more to life than just being clever.
  it`s like another nude Emporer
The Naked Ape; unbelievably popular years back on the strength of a cute title, naked people on the cover and (I think) a tv series. The gist of that is that apes act in certain ways therefore we should all act the way middle-class English people do in fact act (the author rules out non-European cultures as being not `successful`)

Harold Bloom

well, I`ve said it before here, but Michael Moore. I read Stupid White Guys, which was rubbish. I had Bowling for Columbine recommended to me countless times, because I`m a leftie who likes funny stuff. It was garbage. I mean, I`m on his side, I think about American gun laws, which are crazy in my opinion.
  I think MM is popular for who he is rather than for being any good. Imagine a small country which has one pop singer

Independence Day: funny reviews did NOT prepare me for how awful this movie was.

Tim Winton - famed Australian novelist, may have won the Booker prize for all I know. I was given one of his novels but it was maudlin rubbish.

Julius Caesar in the bath - nuff said

an American who came to one of my parties in Australia put it very well "I`m not surprised people hate America. If all of my movies and TV and music came from some other country I`d hate them" (I briefly imagined the horror of a world in which the rest of the world had to watch Australian TV).
 They run the planet, they should expect some resentment.

yours not particularly anti-Americanly

I`m deeply offended by GC`s anti-North Korean postings. I came here as a North Korean 2000 AD fan expecting a civilised message board and what do I get?

yours comfort-eating pickled cabbage

curse those resentful socialists! I`m sure Ming`s funny picture would count as `anti-american` to this sensitive soul.
  socialists aren`t the only ones who think they`re more intelligent than they actually are.
  I dunno, some Americans just don`t get it. They run the bloody planet pretty much, there`s bound to be a bit of resentment. That`s not me being socialist, that`s just how things are.

yours not particularly anti-American,

Red Floyd
 
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University of New England, in Armidale in Australia, is pretty good for distance education. Just do a search for UNE.

I guess the good thing with Guthrie is you know he`s actually done it

who`s Buchanan?

Krusti, this is an important question. There aren`t really that many female judges. Here`s my top five

1. DeMarco...in her first appearance, the only females judge to be out and out interested in sex.
2. Karyn, looks like a goer
3. Hollister
3. Andersen, especially as drawn by Gibson. I just worry that afterwards, she`d come over all drawn-by-Ransom and give you hours of boring hippy pillow talk
4.What`s her name, the Lowlife Judge. Not a conventional beauty but would certainly be a night to remember
5. That Britcit Judge with the wife and the handcuffs

Hershey is just too job-focussed for me. She`d always be thinking about things back at the office

there`s no point pre-empting complaints by capt napalm, he`s out of here, so he says.

I suppose Psi-Div always have the excuse that theirs is an inexact science. ermmm, maybe they`re all busy trying to stop that monster getting out of Andersen`s brain and destroying the world (never mind that MegaCity 1 is being destroyed around them)
 I like Gordon`s explanation better. As he says `if you want an in-story explanation` which I don`t particularly.
 As has been hinted above, if Psi Div could do their job perfectly, there wouldn`t be much of interest in MC1