 Posted: Wed 12:50, 14 Aug 2013 Post subject: The Daily Truth |
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A few days after the death of David Hookes in 2004, I traded my suit and hat for a tracksuit and sneakers and parked myself all day against the bar of the Beaconsfield Hotel in St Kilda, in the hope that I might lassoo something useful as it drifted from whispering staff and muttering patron. I didn't learn anything about Hookes' death that we don't know today,isabel marant online store, or if I did it was all but erased by the gallons of beer I consumed while 'disguised' as a drunk. But I did jot down some notes - things I spotted or thoughts that percolated as I slacked through the hours - and, last night, while cleaning out my drawers, I happened upon my "lost" text. I'd say it makes interesting reading, but only as the document of a desperate journalist in the midst of a passable idea most poorly executed indeed. Much in the manner of Clive James, who, at the end of the millenium, donated a pile of his old manuscripts to the State Library of New South Wales (thus solving a troublesome storage problem), I'm going to generously donate my 'works' to The Age, though I suspect the appropriate catalogue to be The Daily Truth. ______________________________________________ A few wreaths lay outside on the footpath, against the wall of the pub. Don't think this is where Hookes fell - it's a bit further down Cowderoy Street, the papers are saying. Walls festooned with B photographs,isabel marant wedge sneakers sale, including obligatory print of 'the pub that once was'. They rip out the guts of the charming old saloon, replace it with mock-timber, coloured concrete and chrome, then try to disguise their abomination by covering with photos of charming old things. A multi-million dollar waste of time. Renovator's bulimia. 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Staff says this might not be first time Hookes has had trouble with security here. He is (was) a "cranky bloke". Bob (patron) says Aussie cricketers are anti-social as a rule, their "license to be bastards" having its genesis in surly old Don Bradman. (Good theory). Says there was a big brawl last September (2003) during a cricket function at the Savoy in Spencer St (Melb). Many "legends" involved, but the flaks did a good job of "hush-hushing" it. Publican pulls Staff around corner for quiet chat. She comes back wiping surfaces, staying out of conversation. Been ticked off for singing like a bird. There'll be slim pickings from here on in. Cowderoy Street - so named, perhaps,giuseppe zanotti sandals, because the cattle that grazed here in the olden days had a daggier, ribbed sort of hide,discount soccer cleats online, compared to the "cooler", leather-clad cows from better pastures. They reckon "his blood stains are still on the street", but I can't see anything. The blood's always still there in this bloodless country - dripping from the signage of the Sydney Hilton, gurgling down the gutters in Hoddle Street, and sprayed over a considerable arc of asphalt where that goofy golfer walked into the propellers - like human exclamation marks on a land where, for once, there has been a bit of melodrama worth talking about. It's a national mirage. Blood's easy to wash off. I think the law in such matters should observe a "bad luck" clause. If someone punches you and you die, that's "bad luck" for you, 'cos you're dead, and "bad luck" for the other guy, too,giuseppe zanotti shoes sale, 'cos he's going to jail and that's tough. Put it down to a lousy day at the office all-round. Saves time, saves money, and if the other guy don't like it he's welcome to swap. They should have fingerprint identification technology in poker machines, so that the first press of the button tells the machine whether the gambler's an old hand or a greenhorn. 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No one once thought to look at what it did to the staff everyone blamed them the spitting at them and the absolute horror that became their everyday life at work. How would you all feel if something so devastating as a death occurred at your work and you were spat at and ridiculed forced to hide and not do your job! We complain that people are on the dole but yet you are happy to force people there. Peoples don't lay the blame so quickly or easily. 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