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Milk Tea with Cream

14 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by in Lehan Winifred Ramsay

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Illustration and Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay

 

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I begin this piece with a cup of milk tea at the Cafe de The Francois in Kyoto. Waiting for a friend who didn’t turn up (lost at the other end of the street). The lighting is yellowed like the walls, playing off bald heads and gold spectacles. Well dressed ladies cluster on red velvet upholstery raising their pitch over the piano concerto. A man with his elderly mother bend over cream cakes. He stirs his drink vigorously and when it spills he exclaims and stops all movement. His mother rustles through her purse and takes out tissues to wipe the spill. After finishing his cake, he reaches into his own bag, takes out his own tissues, and wipes his own mouth. I accept a final refill of my glass of water, and leave for the train.

Milk Tea with Cream

This week I’ve been occupied, watching an old 11 week TV Japanese drama on Youtube starring Takuya Kimura, a Japanese singer and actor breaking new ground in pan-asia entertainment, followed by the Julian Assange interview series. I started with the old guys and worked my way down to the new ones, ending with Occupy.

Toward the end of the Occupy compilation he asks a question about the organisation of the occupy sites. You started to put up instructions, he says. For how to organise the police, how to organise yourselves, how to organise interferers, crazy people, the garbage. Was this a model specifically for your events? Or was this some kind enactment of a larger model.

Fascinating to listen to the responses. I had the feeling that Assange is not interested in the Occupy movement as much as his audience. President Obama, did you take note of the cigars he was waving about? Or was that smoke not meant for you.

It seems that there is more to come.

Father O’Way Saves Julian

08 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by in Mark

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Excellent

Story by Hung One On,  Cartoonery Mischief by Warrigal Mirriyuula

Hi. Sandy here. You now Father O’Way from the parish of St Generic Brand. I have just got Shappy out of jail and rescued Greece from the Eurozone  and now the Bish, you know Bishop Bishop, wants me to do the same for Julian Arse Sarge, from Wikileaks, whatever the zark that is.

“Get Julian out of trouble or you are fired” arcs up the Bish.

“But hey Bish, leeks are something you put in soup?” I ask  knowing I will get hammered.

“No you ninny, leaks as is letting things slip” retorts the Bish rather viscously.

“So he is incontinent?” I reply is my most nonchalant parish priest voice.

“Look, I don’t care what continent he is on Sandy, just find him and save him or else” barks the Bish.

Oh for zark sake. Is the Bish a full time wanker, I think so.

Anyway, I do a bit of homework and I find out that Julian is living on the Bold Coast, which is in Australia some where. Julian is pretending to be a conservative business man running a business and whingeing at every opportunity to bag the government. I have been told that he has an alias called Feat Slipper.

I travel to this Bold Coast to try and find this Julian character. I enter the bordello called “The Slip Inn” and am ushered into a room to meet the owner. A man is sitting at computer and is listening to some old Yes albums. Drugged out hippy no doubt.

“So Julian, the CIA are after you along with the FBI, MI5, AISO and the AFP, but which is the best Yes album?” I cut to the chase.

“Fragile Sandy” Julian replies “but could you have potato soup without leeks?” asks Julian.

“No. Not on mate, but I was told it was leaks as in you are incontinent?” I ask rather innocently.

“Piss off, gerrit!!!!”  Julian asserts.

“No, not really. But Julian you are leaking all over the place, surely you have some sort of plan?” I ask.

“Zarking oaf Sandy. My aim is to take over the Pigsarms. Total world domination follows. Control the Pigsarms and you control the world.”

Sad, but true.

Wiki Wiki Wiki (reprise)

16 Wednesday Feb 2011

Posted by in Politics in the Pig's Arms, Scott

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Some dude makinmg a court appearance

Story by Scott

You know, it astounds me that it was more than six months ago that I sent a piece about young Julian Assange and Wikileaks into the Pigs Arms. It literally seems like yesterday that he and they came to prominence – probably the fact that there is a story about them in some press, somewhere, nearly everyday keeps it seeming that way.

Since then I’ve learnt some things about Julian A and Wikileaks; some of them are probably true but it’s difficult to know which ones. He has been to Sweden; I’m sure that much is true. He is staying in England at the moment; again this seems certain. Really just about everything else is debatable.

Wikileaks now has competition – Openleaks. And in our profit-driven, competition-crazed society surely this is a good thing. If WL won’t publish your leak, shop it to OL. I just hope that it won’t lead to less caution in publishing some material, because up to now Wiki and the papers selected to publish material at the same time seem to have done a good job of redacting potentially dangerous information and protecting individuals from danger, except of course the danger of embarrassment.

More recently Julian Assange is under pressure to return to Sweden, not because he is facing charges but because some Swedes want to ask him questions. Questions have also been raised about the background connections of two women who have made allegations about him. Of course, the US wants Assange in some sort of gaol in a country they control, whether that be in Australia or the US, Egypt currently being offline for rendition purposes due to – of all things – an outbreak of democratic feeling. This seems particularly poignant in Australia, as it has emerged during the detention of Mr Habib in Egpyt, he was visited by Australian officials, who were later tragically afflicted by a virulent strain of memory loss. Now Egpyt is at least temporarily out of reach.

But back to Julian A and the main story.  Since being denounced as a criminal by some in Australia, denounced as not-a-journalist by some in the US, denounced as a ‘bit of a weirdo who likes having sex’ by an ex-colleague, and denounced as a cad by some women in Sweden Julian’s fortunes have soared and sympathy with his cause is at levels he would not have dreamed about since being a pimply hacker trying to evade the Feds back here in Australia.

I almost feel sorry for the US – how many times do they have to see their best efforts to vilify a person or declare ‘war’ on a cause result in the exact opposite happening before they see the pattern?