Not unless your sister is now an actor (male) in the Northern Territory here
in Australia...
It's a long and vaguely hilarious story, that night, involving, at any one
point, mild drug use, an accidental encounter with an abandoned wheelchair,
the infamous Rob Roy Hotel in Fitzroy, the Victorian state netball side, a
taxi for the disabled, aforesaid Melbourne Zoo, the longest and saddest
working class story I've heard*, some third-rate gangsters, some 'dancing
girls'...
*story subject to being completely implausible and remembered from the
1940s.
Caleb "my conscience is a slate continually wiped..."
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Patrick McManus <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Caleb Perhaps that was my sister??
> I used to jog around the zoo early morning when it was empty -
> interesting!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Caleb Cluff
> Sent: 20 April 2010 07:47
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Janet Jackson at Goolwa festival (south Australia)
>
> I once got locked in Melbourne Zoo with a colleague one night. It was
> amazingly alive. The lions were active, everything was whooping and roaring
> and whinnying and whatever...
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Sleepovers with the animals are you mad? they could bite 'sting crush
> even
> > eat you especially the rodents
> > P concerned -but whose sister used to live in Melbourne Zoo!(no snide
> > comments)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Judy Prince
> > Sent: 20 April 2010 02:20
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Janet Jackson at Goolwa festival (south Australia)
> >
> > Excellent idea, p'raps, Max and Janet, to have the next poetry reading at
> > the Adelaide Zoo.
> >
> > Here in Norfolk, VA, the nearby zoo has one-night "sleepovers" with the
> > animals. I haven't been to one of the sleepovers, not being much of a
> zoo
> > person anyway, but what a great idea (depending upon which animals are
> > sharing the sleeping bag, natch)! <g>
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Judy
> >
> >
> > On 19 April 2010 19:34, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Much depends on keeping my wife and therefore me away from the adelaide
> > zoo
> > > which has the only pandas in australia.
> > > I fear she would queue there most of the weekend on the chance of
> seeing
> > > them.
> > >
> > > Max
> > >
> > > Janet - barter is the thing - swop ya my two books for your one?
> > >
> > >
> > > Quoting Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
> > >
> > > > Sounds like you folk may have a petc-poetry reading in your car! <g>
> > > >
> > > > Have fun, all!
> > > >
> > > > Judy
> > > >
> > > > On 19 April 2010 17:01, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Janet!
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll be the bespectacled silverhaired
> > > > >
> > > > > greywhiskered sixfooter in the back row,
> > > > >
> > > > > presuming I make it from Adelaide airport
> > > > >
> > > > > with my wife driving the rental car
> > > > >
> > > > > and me reading the map.
> > > > >
> > > > > Our accommodation has the oldfashioned name,
> > > > >
> > > > > The Australasian, very suitable for me
> > > > >
> > > > > as a kiwi-aussie.
> > > > >
> > > > > When last in Goolwa I played hide-and-seek
> > > > > with a child round a rotunda just along from the shops.
> > > > > You may have to address yourself rotundly in all directions
> > > > > and compete with the noise of motor traffic,
> > > > > children and perhaps seagulls. Shout them down.
> > > > >
> > > > > best from Max in Melbourne
> > > > >
> > > > > Quoting Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>:
> > > > >
> > > > > > In case anyone going to the Goolwa poetry festival this weekend
> is
> > > > > interested
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > I'm performing in the 'Rotunda' (wherever that may be) from
> > > 11-11:30am
> > > > > > on Sunday, and I'm a speaker in the Saturday evening symposium
> > > > > > (8-10pm).
> > > > > > And flogging books for $20 as usual.
> > > > > www.proximitypoetry.com/coracle.html
> > > > > > See you there!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Janet
> > > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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