tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55969052012-02-11T14:23:56.871+11:00Sole survivors might often be thought of as anonymous, but we never want to be voiceless. No one is more surprised than Jozef Imrich to find that he has become a published author. Cold River has no great debates or brilliant insights about politics. But it is political through and through because the characters are nothing, and mean nothing, outside of the political situation in which they find themselves... And from the first chapter, a hidden world is brought to life...Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comBlogger7551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-77350147236687832292012-02-07T18:23:00.000+11:002012-02-11T14:23:56.884+11:00

... the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. Psalms 104: 24-25It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked Time Waits for No Man A Few snowflakes, appropriately, fell around the parish church of Portsea yesterday in Hampshire as hundreds gathered inside to celebrate the

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Here's to a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year, to all media dragons! I thought it would be difficult to decide what to write for my first blog entry. I thought it would need to be original, witty, unique, and somehow perfect. Yet, I don't have a perfect track record when it comes to new years resolutions, so this year MMXII I am not even planning to change the world for the better. The

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R.I.P., Vaclav Havel A hero of mine has died. Another great intellectual light has left the planet. The Czech National flag and two black flags wave in front of Saint Vitus CathedralI only met Havel twice and wouldn't pretend to know him well. But he mattered as much to me as my father ... I met him once in Prague after he signed the Charter 77 and again in 1995 when Johno Johnson, President of

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We are lucky we are We. We are lucky to come across people like Dr Cope ...Dr. Seuss has written a sweet poem called Did I ever tell you how lucky you are? Anytime we start thinking that our job doesn’t pay us enough, our leg’s aren’t long enough, our house isn’t big enough, the town we live in isn’t exciting enough, our boss isn’t forgiving enough, our spouse isn’t rich enough…You’re

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Truth is the safest lie.-- High Tatra Mountains Gural proverbWhat is Cold River because it tells you how to read history. You'll never read a history book in the same way again. On 7 – 7 – 1980, VII – VII – MCMLXXX, Bessie became the only dog, animal ever, of the Cold War era to receive a political asylumn - Vienna, Austria . Since that symbolic date I am trying to figure out two very

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“To thine own self be true,” said Polonius. Timeless advice, but who are you, really, other than an enigma to yourself?... Outrageous revenge plots when love between astronauts or a puritanical judge and his siren-like sister-in-law went wrong. The public humiliation of a bit player in the Clinton impeachment circus. A lurid misery memoir exposed as fiction. Do we gain anything from reading

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David Clune is the NSW Parliament’s Historian and an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney. He has written widely about NSW politics and history David Henry CLUNE David Clune OAM with his wife RosalindTHINK NSW politics is colourful now? The antics of Kristina Keneally and co pale in comparison to some of the political anecdotes stored in the

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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This … BUSINESS and politics are full of surprises—and a near certainty. Whether they are politicians, bankers or trade-union leaders, men nearly always meet other men in suits. The uniform of capitalism has conquered more of the globe than capitalism itself. When Barack Obama first visited Hu Jintao, paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China, the men

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I wish for all of you the happiest and most hopeful of new years. May you laugh often, cry only when you want to, and never be bored in MMXI! Happiness seems an unintended side effect, like hives or a dry cough, the occasional byproduct of right living ;-)And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of

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Winston Churchill once said, The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Bohemian Elizabeth and Media Dragon go a long long way back to 1980s Wild wild Polish Polish at Chrsitophers pad at Bondi ... Elizabeth Wojciak - Entwined - 09 April - 06 May 2010. Olga and her Harrison Galleries is in Paddington, the art district of Sydney. The gallery was established in

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Virginia’s Visit from Bristol what an earthy title for a brilliant novel ... We live on the thin ice of unexplained phenomenaWhatever you do avoid a movie named Being in Heaven as it felt as being in Hell when Media Dragon watched it.But watch and enjoy Crazy heart The whole world's crazy but me and thee Second generation Hollywood, his dad Lloyd Bridges was a major heart-throb in the 60s,

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2010 is not any old year. It marks the centenary year for the Australian Taxation Office, a silver anniversary of the introduction of capital gains tax and a ten anniversary of GST (31 January 2000 to be exact - according to Phil).Australia Post will honour our centenary with a commemorative stamp that will be circulated among our public. It will be co-designed by tax office staff and launched

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In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy Gone a-droving 'down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go; As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing, For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know-Banjo Paterson (Banjo Crabbe)The Crabbe Hole (- a place to be on Australia Day or any day ...)Bondi Icebergs1 Notts AvBondi Beach 2026 NSW Phone:

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Happy birthday Dial ...Google and blogger.com rock even more so now that Australian and French researchers are claiming that watching TV will increase the risk of you dying young. iMrich (Meaning, if you own it, you have enough dough for yet another gadgetiMrich (Meaning, if you own it, you have enough dough for yet another gadget Robert Hughes once wrote: I feel guilty when I'm not writing and

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Every path has a few puddles.Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.The best sermons are lived, not preached.Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps\Cold River - Memoir: His Story Remember Me? One Life. Six Words. What's YoursDeceptively simple

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It is exactly 27 years since I began working in the Parliamentary Library of NSW on 29th November 1982, but the memories of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 - the seven years difference blends into abyss ...Schabowski shrugged and the Berlin Wall came tumbling down ... A night never to forget Ritter took his camera along the Death Strip... Daniel Johnson was there, and asked Schabowski a crucial

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Sadly my brother in law, Eva's Franto passed away today and will not able to celebrate this year the fall of the wall ...Exactly 20 years ago from today, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down. Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified border on Monday to cheers of "Gorby! Gorby!" as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20

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Media Dragon is celebrating more than Sikh Bohemian wedding anniversary or our arrival in antipodean Sydney all those years ago (circa 1980), this September Media Dragon has had over 60,000 visits, between 2006 and 2009 AD, from mischievous readers clicking their mouse in more than 100 countries. We are proud of our global readership and thank you for your continued support. Six degree of

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Twenty Nine (29) Years ago Today, the idea of the Bohemian Stranger and Media Dragon started to be formed and the Blogger.Com has made it possible Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing inside Cold River? Newsweekly’s last stand. Yes, the news magazines are in trouble in a digital age – all except The Economist. So why is it thriving?... Media Weather Media Cloud is a system

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Shaw PS - showing the way? Ian McPhee of Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) fame, noted last year My presentation today is intended to provide a broad perspective on public sector governance to act as a 'spring board' for the more specific aspects of governance that will be addressed in later sessions. I mainly refer to governance in the context of agencies (where the CEO generally

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The death of Russian Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn clearly marks the end of an era Cold War River; Like my father Jozef, Alexander (Sasha) survived Civil War, World War and Cold War. However, only few suffered as much as Alexander who suffered Stalin's camps and Brezhnev's repressions; he fought cancer when exiled without possessions in remote Kazakhstan, and resisted

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So few and far between are my books like Cold River or my entries on the Media Dragon … I love the moments when I do come up with an entry. Flowers like blogs grow out of dark moments. Therefore certain spirit of the moment – moments are vital as they affect the whole. Writer’s life is a succession of such strange moments …Today is exactly 28 years since I escaped across the Iron Curtain. Who can

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Gabriella is sweet sixteen today and at breakfast I could not take my eyes of her … It is so lovely for a father to see a daughter filled with laughter and health and creative ideas. Not many teenagers love to go to school these days yet Gabbie loves her talent school, the Brent Street, is just great … The reason Gabbie is so much into arts and photography is because the water broke while we were

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This year has been a year of Film Festivals from French to German and now the Spannish. But the best plays are still with Czech accent as Tom Stoppard rocks the rocks of the Sydney Warf Theatre of Cate Blanchet fame on Thursday in the row F Australia – My New Home - new book about the life stories of Australian Czech and Slovak community members has been published.The book is the product of two

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By the way, the German Film Festival in Sydney has a good story on Check Point Charlie Border of DespairTT: Annals of failed flackeryPeople in my line of work have to sift through a lot of press releases and other forms of flackery, all of which we take with a stalactite or two of salt. It's part of the job. Nevertheless, I confess to having boggled at the blurbissimo I encountered on the back of

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Very few people wish me happy name day these March peppered days - well by confirmation name I am addressed as Patrick while my real name is Jozef - on 17 March I must celebrate y confirmation name day and today is St Jozef's name - My sister Gitka always remembers to send me a message even if she is busy in Prague helping my other sister Eva to get organised;-) This year I did not let this

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Pacific International hotel chain rocks as do the noisy bunch of Asian kids next door who keep working class people awake in the middle of the night ;-(And another thing ... Is anyone who is serious about the literary scene in Australia surprised ;-)AS Australia's sole Nobel laureate for literature, the late Patrick White should occupy a place of honour in our nation. Instead, as The Australian's

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Just like the river, always in love with the moon ...-Source my space ;-)Blasts from parliamentary past, John and Rebecca, shared a few stories over coffee with me. I was late, but it is better to be later than never especially after tasting all kinds of Wirra Wirras ;-) Adelaideans are very forgiving lot especially when it comes to relaxing Saturday morning - Honourable mention to great bakery

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When I lay down I thought and saidPerhaps tomorrow I may be deadYes, I shall stand with all my mightAnd for sweet liberty will fight.- Lt. James McMichael  Iceberg Survives Cold River Crossing: marking rusty barb wires over a quater of century old IT'S A BOOK! Resuscitating the Storyteller: 7 July 2006 ADBiography allows us in the best case to see a human being in exactly the grandiose way that

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What’s wrong with that exclamation? You hear it uttered everywhere, by friends and family, on television, radio, the internet…Happy Fourth of July! Not so independent.July fourth is Independence Day in the United States, a day when Americans commemorate the signing, in 1776, of the Declaration of Independence, a document that formally severed political ties with Britain, then America's colonial

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Google sends me many of my readers ...Like medicine, blogging is learned through practice and experience. Yet bloggers (like doctors) can practice their craft more effectively if they relentlessly seek new knowledge and insight, from both inside and outside their websitess, so they can keep updating their assumptions, skills, and knowledge.     The funny thing about blogs, whether we realize it

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No doubt there are all kinds of high and low; Cool and Hot; awards, since there seems to be nothing more popular than the handing out of prizes, a phenomenon first remarked by Lewis Carroll:However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out “The race is over!” and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, “But who has won?”This

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Rain's only value, for Miss McGee, was that it reminded her how precious was good weather. She despised rain. But she knew that to the earth, rain was as necessary as sunshine. Could it be, she wondered, that the vice and barbarism abroad in the world served, like the rain, some purpose? Did the abominations in the Sunday paper mingle somehow with the goodness in the world and together, like the

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Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph.-Gustave Flaubert, letter to Maxime Du Camp (October 1847)"> Are You of Legal Drinking Age? Cold River Editions: Music for the

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To Succeed You Have to Fail, says Samuel Beckett. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.-Richard NixonAllow me to fill you in on a little secret ... I’m not a blogger, I’m just pretending to be a blogger! You have a lifelong dream of writing a book and

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There is infinite hope, but not for us.- KafkaI love the sunburnt country, the land that loves to lose. This view of us comes up for discussion on this day every year. It seems to be one of those elusive "Australian values" so many people are trying to pin down nowadays. The land is peppered with national characteristics - "Laconic understatement", "Fair go", "Mateship" and "The tall poppy

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A SOLEMN Anzac Day ceremony was to be held in the small township of Briagolong, in Victoria's east, to honour Private Jacob Kovco who died in Iraq. Hot War - Cold War - Nothing Fair in War ... (Nothing new under the sun ...)Rushing Through Cold River: The Local Edge Tolstoy claimed that all happy families are alike and that unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. That may be true of

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After a moment that seemed like an eternity Media Dragon was born ... In 1980 I rolled downhill to Australia and the only place that would have me fast ;-). They picked me up when I was down!“You only have to look at that dreadful American man, Henry James. The worst writer in the world. He never risked anything.” V.S. Naipaul minces no words ... and he likes Media Dragon. No one like Naipaul for

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For the first time in my publishing career the Australia's fastest growing online bookstore Booktopia is making my book available Down Under. Tony Nash, who tends to exceed every customer’s expectation, has a knack for creating a positive retail experience. This savvy company has already made a mark in the complex world of distribution of books. Maiden Time for Cold River Head Office Level 12,

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This post was inspired by an aristocracy of excellence - Julie ...Film is visual brevity.... If the novel is a poem, the film is a telegram. -- Michael Hastings, screenwriterA Movie Parable: Adaptation ...Much has been already written about the disappointing third act, but I found it to be a bold and brave statement. Kaufman makes a concession to his artistic integrity which fails in comparison

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I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers but, at the same time, I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd

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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.- Elizabeth Taylor - Complements of Anita SharpeEveryone we meet in virtual blogosphere is part of the kaleidoscope of our real life. It is as a divine-plan, which helps develop us into the unique person we are today. Every experience we encounter has an effect on

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In my eyes the world is full of nice people. I appreciate post peppered with ideas by Shel Israel, who wrote Naked Conversations with Robert Scoble, for figuring out how to deal with anonymous reviews on Amazon:In a commentariat there is a suggestion by a certain Bob of Bob@Example.com fame that bloggers could be classified as being a kind of bunch who practice and preach back-scratching ... via

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As I noted earlier, the world is filled with nice bloggers and cartoonists.courtesy of Hugh via Alan Weinkrantz Werner Vogels writes: In order to get closer to their customers, humanize Amazon, increase sales, and stay modern, Amazon.com has decided to make all Instant Messenger (IM) handles of its employees public. This way Amazon.com customers will get unprecedented access to the talented

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Jozef Imrich who wrote a wonderful, gripping true story of his escape from Communist held Czechoslovakia called Cold River just left a Comment on my recent why Amazon Should Blog post made mention of the pain that bad reviews on Amazon cause. That gave me an idea. Amazon could allow authors to respond to reviews. That would create a person dialog and be fascinating to follow. It also might do

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If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for. - Dr. Martin Luther King ( My father in law was a hero like no other)Little moments make a dayDays turn into yearsYou've watched me grow upAs I watched you grow oldBut now it seems like I'm looking onand you're the one moving on,I'm the young one, watching your go free. So go free to your first love, free to your

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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. - Isaac Asimov, "Foundation and Empire" My blog is worth $16,936.20.How much is your blog worth?Find out how much is your media dragon worth Inspired by Tristan Louis's research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc

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Alright, I've been known to jump to conclusions now and again when it comes to dating, but I'm usually just letting you know what some other dude said. Hmm ... I've received a cryptic message that says that Katie Kosko is rumoured to say that DATING IS LIKE SEARCHING FOR THE PERFECT WINE. One date is too fruity, another too dry, and still another too much bouquet (cologne overdose). But once you

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1141207701765682292006-03-01T21:08:00.000+11:002006-03-01T21:08:21.783+11:00

Ken Follett's 1978 spy novel The Eye of the Needle contains the following:His name is Frederick Bloggs, and he gets annoyed if you make jokes about it.Rumors of blogs' demise are exaggerated, but a lot less obsession would be healthy Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite!This is not a media dragon or a beech tree, but rather my MD or my beech tree, something that I, with my sensations, have constructed

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1139609873682679792006-02-11T09:17:00.000+11:002006-02-11T09:17:53.696+11:00

Thanks to rebellious S Jozef Comes Alive ;-P AND SO IT IS ... the sexiest voice on earth could never accuse him of being boring or so she says... He would have regarded that as the most vile of insults. He made his characters larger than life, their foibles greater, their failings sharper and sometimes he made them much funnier than they were. Sometimes even if you had played in the day's events

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1139129237200288472006-02-05T19:46:00.000+11:002006-02-05T19:47:17.220+11:00

It was worth missing Friday night sleep:S, the Blower’s Daughter, might have said it: We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.The Blower's Daughter LyricsAnd so it is Just like you said it would be Life goes easy on me Most of the time And so it is The shorter story No love, no glory No

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1138617647269344832006-01-30T21:40:00.000+11:002006-01-31T21:39:33.690+11:00

Happiness is . . . Sydney Grogblogging fotos, and composing letters to virtual readers Jason, Jozef, Andrew Esq. via Tim Lambert Traffic Details: Least Unpopular Australian Leftoid BlogsIn case you missed it, bloggers from around Australia met up on Saturday night for Grogblogging III. And yes, they’re just as opinionated in person as they are on screen.Flashman from Electron Soup was chatting

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1138310425652677552006-01-27T08:20:00.000+11:002006-02-05T07:44:57.446+11:00

I am breathing easier this morning, as I’ve just learned that I’m going to live to the ripe old age of 106. This handy bit of information comes from How Long Will I Live? Last year I came *this* close to not believing in living or miracles. Before we fall in love, we know what qualities we are looking for in a lover—or think we do. . . . Once we have fallen in love, it is a different story. When

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1138187904702260562006-01-26T07:07:00.000+11:002006-01-25T22:20:31.490+11:00

It is not every week that I invade the Catholic church headquarters and get to hear soulful stories boldly told by Johno Johnson, national (and catholic) treasure and ubiquitous raffle fundraiser extraordinaire. Johno Johnson has been chairman of the board of The Catholic Weekly since March 2003, is President Emeritus of the NSW Legislative Council, having served as its president from November

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Cold River is far superior to Frey’s Million Pieces. Really. We’re not just saying that because of a bet or the nature of the cold truth being stranger than fiction ...Don't forget to vote in the Australian Blog Awards. Unlike certain other blogs who will remain shameless, we are not running a campaign or offering sexual or other inducements. But I'm sure, if elected by the acclaim of our peers,

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1137885956405188352006-01-22T10:25:00.000+11:002006-01-25T01:29:17.950+11:00

Quotes Dedicated to the Cold Truth of Freedom: The trouble is I don't like writing fiction: I like writing the truthIt's not how many times you fall down that counts; it's getting up again. And forget counting, it's too pedantic and after the first hundred, you loose track anyhow ;-PMaybe we are crazy. Maybe we will change the world:Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. — Tom PetersAre you placing

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1137580817408418802006-01-20T09:39:00.000+11:002006-01-18T21:40:17.410+11:00

Heard of Cold River yet? You will ;-) Cold River: The Cold Truth of Freedom , is out Czech out the Amazon page for it. Yes, I do get a tiny royalty if you buy the book.The True Blue Antipodean Robert Lorraway and Kristy-Lee Lorraway might proof that Cold River, more that Gorbachev’s perestroika, may be the real cause of the collapse of the Iron Curtain ...

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1137577651057596302006-01-19T07:07:00.000+11:002006-01-18T21:39:46.156+11:00

I LOVE blogs. Really, I do. Where else can I read about the daily sex lives, love lives, careers, social lives, sex lives and more sex lives of real people with dubious monikers like 'thetemptations' and 'hotsplashes', bad English notwithstanding. Sexploits in blogs so gross The Blog, The Press, The Media: Columnist Sees Blogs as Threat to Society In broad strokes, Parker dismisses the

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Bleeding HandsI can't believe that my holidays are at an end, I have read as much poetry as I could and listen to as many songs as time allowed and watched as many flicks as my eyes could absorb. Gabbie you are a champion for swimming at Tamarama, and running along Bondi beach, taking the costal walks and listening to my musings. Alex I trust that we get to do more things together too this year

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1137442695544320932006-01-17T07:18:00.000+11:002006-01-17T08:48:09.486+11:00

I am a bohemian by birth and temperament, a sole survivor, a refugee and now published authour all the sins together.Carried on the drifting current His destination will be In the west, Siberia; Or in the east, Java. Which country will be his grave? Lover's chatter Is like the dust Of any country.-The Drowned and the Saved: I was spared to tell my escape story Like any proud parents, Robert

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1137043486161943082006-01-12T16:24:00.000+11:002006-01-12T16:24:46.166+11:00

Up till now I had relied as an actor on my small store of sophistication and assurance, and had got nowhere. Only now when I was making use of the most vulnerable and naked aspects of myself had I come up with something of real value. I began to see that notwithstanding its occasional triumphs, its conspicuously public success, there was at the heart of an actor's life an aspect of public

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1137043435770159872006-01-12T16:23:00.000+11:002006-01-12T16:23:55.783+11:00

Double Dragon’s blood ran cold at the mention of James Frey. [Frey Accused of Gross Fabrications ]The latest true story published in the Double Dragon paperback is not just speaking about Jozef's experiences, it goes way beyond that...

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1136844417376144492006-01-10T09:06:00.000+11:002006-01-10T09:07:07.383+11:00

This 102 year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and face shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told

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Don't ask what the world needs.Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.-Howard ThurmanI came alive on Saturday night, last night (first night), with Lauren at the Iceberg club. What a great place to share stories with Ken Spears, Keith Posha Leslie, Ron Lofty Petrie, Bruce Bailey, Brat Payne, Angus Graham, Alan Gow and so on ... Some

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1136315743957861772006-01-04T06:15:00.000+11:002006-01-06T16:43:24.350+11:00

Just as much I hated the Iron Curtain 25 or so years ago, these days instead I love another iron and with the same intensity, the Sydney Iron Bridge The bridge's heart takes shape.The Image tells thousand stories: The Story of My Foolish Love in Exile In these crazy times, we have to keep our eyes on the things that matter most: the life and health of our families, our communities, the planet.

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1136157085643904562006-01-01T10:11:00.000+11:002006-01-02T10:11:25.666+11:00

Sydney ushered in the new year with a huge heart pulsing on the Iron Bridge and within that heart are hearts of my soulful girls. Thank you Sydney for staging such a hearty firework. Christopher with Lidia have found the best spot at Rose Bay to watch the amazing colour of light The Greatest HeartAs the smoke clears on yet another midnight fireworks display, today is as good a time as any to

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Woke up this morning and I Stared out the window and I Searched for ugliness and IStruggled for something to fotograf...After all, Alexandra and Gabriella are The Children of Love: Fathers and Daughters The World Pyro Olympics, an annual competition for fireworks professionals, begins today at The Avenue Rose Bay where the center cannot hold ;-) Gunpowder, Jimi Hendrix and a big heart to usher in

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1135904372982996312005-12-30T11:59:00.000+11:002005-12-30T12:30:07.760+11:00

Our teachers come to us in many guises. Mine came in Dr Russell Cope, Patricia Azarias, Dr James Cumes as well as Gabriella and Alexandra, my two amazing angels of the Velvet variety ... There might be many languages, but there is only one truth! These teachers teach us that there is never an ending without another beginning. Even death is a beginning of something new no matter what late Kerry

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We all try not to think about it. We try as hard as we can not to think about how we could better use those hundreds and hundreds of hours spent traveling to and from work every year, because it just leads to frustration Being without thinking is heavenly According to Liz, there needs to be a reason to drink Luna Park or Wonderland Coffee ;-)The Blog, The Press, The Media: Why are Media

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Remember me? Not only am I not dead yet, but I’m back in paperback :-) Needless to say, there's plenty more where that came from. See for yourself—buy a copy of Cold River and email me your response at jozefimrich@authorsden.com. One last thing: Not that I want to spark the green-eyed glance of envy, but sunny blue Tamarama and Bondi are the places to spend these holidays, in my personal,

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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a CountryTo Those Who Appreciate the Art of Giving Cold River does not Mind Sand in the Spine While much is left to the imagination, I console myself with knowing that everyone’s first book is autobiographical to some extent. The escape story across the Iron Curtain was a

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1135250752369002402005-12-22T22:25:00.000+11:002005-12-22T22:25:52.383+11:00

Be careful, it's my heart, It's not my watch you're holding, it's my heart. It's not the note I sent you that you quickly burned, It's not the book I lent you that you never returned. Remember, it's my heart, The heart with which so willingly I part. It's yours to take, to keep or break, But please, before you start, Be careful, it's my heart.-Irving Berlin, “Be Careful, It’s My Heart” (music by

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In our swimming pool at dawn / I counted eight dead cockroaches / The man from the village who cleans it / Said he couldn’t come until eleven / And I felt quite sick– Lady Vittoria de Selby, Rhapsody in Rosé (Faber): has anyone ever captured the fragile condition of the human spirit at the start of our dark new century quite so movingly as this?Most of us don't like risk and uncertainty. That's

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1134980987559110472005-12-17T19:07:00.000+11:002005-12-19T21:39:35.360+11:00

Where there is great love there are always miracles ~Willa CatherMay those who visit your home feel the love residing thereHope your new place becomes a home.Congratulations - the move is over!You made it!May happiness & love move in with youMay you create countless memories in your new homeSaint Mikulas - Patron of Icebergs Sunrise warming our day I am an optimist by nature. An indefatigable

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Cold River, a kind of story for readers who thirst after exciting foreign non-fiction - a fluid memoir You are different. So is Cold RiverI blog to remember who I am ... The sky’s the limit when it comes to what bloggers can do to make a difference in someone else’s life. Books and blogs - They’re the New Black! Television can make you famous, but it can’t keep you famous. It’s more like an

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1133811296220902032005-12-06T06:34:00.000+11:002005-12-06T06:39:30.483+11:00

I spoke to my Mamka (Mom) this morning it was 5:30 am in seaside Sydney and evening in the High Tatra Mountains. The temperatures also could not be more different as it is nice and warm here whereas it is freezing in my old home country. At 89 ( in February next year) Mamka is bright and alert and can recall so many childhood stories I have forgotten. My sister Gitka is her guardian angel keeping

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1133724717844278082005-12-05T06:31:00.000+11:002005-12-05T06:31:57.863+11:00

I survived the Bondi to Bronte ocean swim. Just ;-) In at the deep end no one asks you about the time it took. It is one thing to walk from Bondi to Bronte but it is another thing altogether to swim the distance. Swimming around the rocks really does give you a strange sense of existentialism ... as well as a deep sense of being part of this amazingly wonderful world!rançois Truffaut defined a

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1133560192745314802005-12-03T08:49:00.000+11:002005-12-03T09:51:56.800+11:00

Last week has been aimed at settling me and my angel Gabriella at Bondi and preparing me for the Cold River Bondi Bronte ocean swim tomorrow. [I am back to my 95 kg from 103 kg more palatable for my 6.2 frame] If there are no posts on Monday it means my 40 something body just could not take the surf and the rocks ;-) A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possession - Leo Tolstoy

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1132611163187132692005-11-22T09:12:00.000+11:002005-11-22T10:29:16.420+11:00

I have always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.- Oprah WinfreyFor the next few hours or days it's moving time. THE BIG DAY is tomorrow. Moving house can be an exhausting and disruptive experience, but it also is filled with opportunities and anticipation of the variety that life tends to serve us on a plate in our exile.

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1132571262993322402005-11-21T22:07:00.000+11:002005-11-21T22:07:43.010+11:00

One nail to drive out another. Such is the way of the world ... ;-) A critic is there to set out reasons for an artist’s claim on our attention. We need good critics, informed critics, and more of them. But the minds of editors are elsewhere Critical clowns ... devoured by a thirst for celebrity Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: The way we were As adults, we can go back and reread

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1132461531872338252005-11-20T15:38:00.000+11:002005-11-20T15:38:51.890+11:00

We are packed and ready to invade new school and old grounds at Bondi area. Another interesting chapter in our book - as they say the only place where there is no inflation, exitement, emotional rollercoaster is the cemetery. Outside the cemetery life keeps going on and on - no matter what ...Benjamin Franklin said, "Things that hurt instruct."Do I think I have to hurt to learn?-Liz StraussI walk

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1132142973619792002005-11-16T23:09:00.000+11:002005-11-16T23:09:33.633+11:00

AUSTRALIA WINS THE WORLD CUP QUALIFIER ON PENALTIES 4-2 At times like these, we grasp for words of excitement and joy ;-) Australia's date with destiny: Australia John Aloisi GOOOOAAAAALLLL!!!!!! Ach another thoughtful courtesy of Gina: Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. Using trees as the metaphor, these poignant words of Nobel

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1131623967942963182005-11-10T22:59:00.000+11:002005-11-10T22:59:27.956+11:00

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get upThis fall, Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Richard A. Clarke, the ubiquitous counterterrorism expert, became the latest inductees into an elite political fellowship, one that doesn't discriminate on the basis of party affiliation, security clearance, home state or prayer breakfast attendance: the politico-novelist set

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Nowhere in the world have I encountered a festival of people that has such a magnificent appeal to the whole nation. The Cup astonishes me.-Mark TwainMelbourne Cup Day is Australia's most famous Tuesday. It's a day when the nation stops whatever it's doing to listen to the race call, or watch the race on TV, and even those who don't usually bet, try their luck Spring Racing Carnival Melbourne Cup

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A Small Virtual Key Open Big Door [Blogging] business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side ...-Hunter S. Thompson Meeting the Whole Wide World Once upon a time I had a pleasure of reviewing a masterpiece by Dan Gillmor entitled We The Media and this week I ploughed through another

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Make-believe democracy: drowning with the authoritarians My dad came into my dream last night very vividly and, as a child, I recall him saying to me as we watched a wolf trying to attack us how the most dangerous animal in the forest is the one that is hurt. I think his words were: "Injured animal is the most dangerous animal in the forest".In some strange way this could be said in the context

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To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare not go.To right the unrightable wrong, To love pure and chaste from afar, To try when your arms are too weary, To reach the unreachable star!-- Lyrics from The Impossible Dream (The Quest) by Joe DarionMy life -- a sole survivor's existence -- has been filled with depths, both

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1129887041966673122005-10-21T19:30:00.000+10:002005-10-21T19:33:09.690+10:00

Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.-Richard NixonNew Territory: Explorers of Freedom - Yes, I now find that freedom frightens me I write this on September 11, 2005, with voices from a television program behind me telling the horrendous stories of the terrorist attack of the World Trade Center in the United States on a

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1129756977999202882005-10-20T07:22:00.000+10:002005-10-21T22:02:44.940+10:00

Black dog was a sickness, they told him. The previous year he had been worried enough by symptoms of physical illness to visit his doctor and had come away with a series of warnings and prohibitions concerning diet, alcohol, tobacco—the usual nonsense. But paradoxically his efforts to comply had led him inexorably to ask himself why he was bothering; what was so bloody marvellous about this life

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1129341231957875262005-10-15T11:53:00.000+10:002005-10-16T05:41:42.130+10:00

This has been quite a week for literary coups. My book has been downloaded at different parts of my publisher’s world map in the last two weeks including Australia, China, the Czech Republic, Findland, France, Germany, Holand, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, and UK. As Natsume Soseki noted: A storyteller is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we

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Can you ever think too much about freedom? Not in my book. Cold River is of such cruel destruction that it will sweep anyone away Paperback Edition

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Veteran journalist and new blogger David Kline learns the bitter truth on O'Reilly's conservative talk show and speaks out in his own blog O'Reilly Factor Guest Exposes Sneak Attack on Bloggers The Blog, The Press, The Media: Blogging to Boost Your Biz According to blog-tracking firm Technorati, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added every day Blogging is the latest

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Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal The Blog, The Press, The Media:

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be ?You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1127771295375857502005-09-27T07:48:00.000+10:002005-09-27T07:48:15.386+10:00

Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that they once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!-E.M. ForsterAs you've surely heard, a summer of Faulkner was enough to drive Oprah back to contemporary books and live authors she can

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1127421286404682772005-09-23T06:34:00.000+10:002005-09-26T15:25:24.790+10:00

Dear diary ... This weekend I am again invading Blue Sky , the sanctuary of Speaking of blue skys of our past, I came across a story about my old club and the way it is swimming in financial irony. Oddly and despite being topped and tailed by one of Sydney's highest-grossing restaurants and best ocean pools, the iconic Bondi Icebergs is in financial difficulties having recorded an operating

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1127009212176673272005-09-18T12:06:00.000+10:002005-09-21T18:10:02.023+10:00

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.- Kurt VonnegutThe creative stakes are high in a time of publishing deadlines and revisions. Media Dragon was selected to review gurus, evangelists, of Shel Israel’s and Robert Scoble’s ilk Galley Reviewers At Large selected: Blogs offer businesses something that has long been lacking in their

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1126912353771295822005-09-18T07:12:00.000+10:002005-09-17T09:12:33.776+10:00

Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Hollywood Follows the Reader When Filmmakers Go by the Book, Should Filmgoers Go Buy It Too? "What! Another of those damned, fat, square, thick books!" an exasperated Duke of Gloucester is supposed to have said to Edward Gibbon upon being presented Volume 2 of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." "Always scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr.

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1126912304207666062005-09-17T09:10:00.000+10:002005-09-17T09:11:44.216+10:00

When a law enforcement officer looks at a company, one of the first questions he or she asks him or herself will be: Are these people good guys or bad guys? Eye on Politics & Law Lords: We're So Good We'll Be Fine Can you ever think too much about leadership? Not in my book. But then, I'm firmly in the camp of people make history rather than history makes people. EBay also did one thing

Jozef Imrich, Esq.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596905.post-1126862085348125752005-09-16T19:14:00.000+10:002005-09-16T19:14:46.480+10:00

My youngest daughter, Gabriella, a.k.a. Gabrielle, Bella, Vella, Wella, began blogging this week A debut worthy of MJ Rose ;-)

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