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[edit] Blundell book

Bought the Graeme Blundell book "King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy" online from Dymock's. Chose the TNT courier option with "no signature requred". Arrived in three days, guess I can't complain - $AUS40.

485 pages.

Great book. But by page 265 we've just left 1968. It's all good, and you can see that Blundell has had to cut and cut and cut, and so the first half is all IMT.

But it's depressing reading. Kennedy, it seems, hated the work, and suffered very badly.

Blundell very properly says nothing overt about Kennedy's sexuality, but the subtext is clear.

In his later years, Kennedy's closest companion was a dog, Henry. He was devastated when Henry died.

But a dog, however faithful, is just a dog.

Kennedy was brilliant at his craft. But he was a frightened, nervous man, who never found love, and was unhappy all his life.


[edit] Bert Newton

Well, I see Adam Carr threw a hissy fit over my not-very-good-first-attempt-at-Wikipedia on the Bert Newton page:

Adam Carr (cut and copyedit, remove much rubbish and sychophancy)

(hey Adam, the correct spelling is "sycophancy" - no "h").

It was my *first* ever Wiki effort, Adam. You don't seem to be a very nice guy, Adam. You can catch more flies with sugar than vinegar, Adam.

From a quick look at Adam's Talk page, some people might think that Adam lacks certain basic social skills. I, of course, couldn't possibly comment.

Adam slashed and burned my feeble effort: I don't think he likes Bert very much, and he certainly doesn't like me.

I seethed over Adam's attack on me for a while.

But when (eventually) I calmed down and looked at his edits, I saw his point: I was often wrong and he was often right (not in everything, and he trashed a lot of stuff that should have remained), but (and I hate to say it) the page IS better.

My guess is that Adam Carr will never understand that most people coming to Wiki are ordinary folks, wanting to do their best, eager to learn and eager to contribute.

Yes, I'm new on Wiki. Everyone I've met so far has been kind, generous, helpful and encouraging --- with one exception: Adam Carr.


[edit] Hinch

Hi. I just wanted to say what a great contribution you made to the Derryn Hinch article I began as a stub some time back. My seed has grown into a wonderful tree. Well done. -- Longhair | Talk 21:23, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Zig & Zag

I barely remember Zig & Zag, but your rendidition of their classic song slowly brings it all back.

Sorry to see you've caught the ire of Adam Carr whilst updating the Bert Newton article. Most of us here can edit happily and communicate without 'hissy fitting'. Stick to those you work well with and ignore the rest. Any trouble makers usually burn out and leave of their own accord, or simply get banned. Keep up the good work, regardless of what anyone thinks. -- Longhair | Talk 22:40, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Weird

It might just look like I've been everywhere and done everything before you, but if you take a look at my contributions page, you'll note the bulk of Australian prison information was created by myself as a project to get them all online. It's almost done. Perhaps you and I are simply attracted to the same content? ;) Your additions to Morwell made me smile. I could just imagine Hinch living it there in total ignorance of ill feeling toward him. You're welcome to build on my prior work. That's why I put it there. -- Longhair | Talk 23:49, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] No worries

Hey Mike! No problem, and glad to see you took care of the German link as well. Actually I have just taken responsibility for disambiguating links to English and seven other pages. It's kind of a dull housekeeping task, but sometimes I'm in the mood for that sort of thing. If you're interested in this, look here and here. Best regards, --Tkynerd 20:29, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey again Mike, no problem -- and I encourage you to get involved in working on disambiguation if it interests you. There is lots and lots of work to do. Happy New Year, by the way! --Tkynerd 17:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Graham Kennedy

Hi Mike, on 11th May I believe you added a quote from Blundell's book under Benefactors, mentioning "$150,000 dollars". Is this superfluity ("$" as well as "dollars") a typo or an exact quote - in which case we should add "(sic)" after it? Cheers, Ian Rose 01:39, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gerald Stone

Hi there Mike Could you please have a look back at this article. Looking at what you have done, I don't think you understand the difference between references and external links. References provide the information that was used in writing an article. As many can be listed as are used in creating an article. External links provide additional information about the subject. Ususally only a couple are needed especially for such a short biographical article.

As this is your own work, you are the best person to work out which is actually a reference and which one is actually an external link. I would have thought it appropriate for example to provide an exteral link to 60 Minutes website as an external link, regardless of weather that website provided any information for the article. Garrie 06:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)