NormanI got my first Marvel comics by swapping various comics with the boy next door. I would have preferred Batman, but I took what he had. There were a few of the non-superhero fantasy shorts by Kirby or Ditko, then a Strange Tales featuring the Human Torch meeting the Sub-Mariner and an early story of … Read more
As much as parents, school and TV, the mental scenery for my childhood was created by comics. The years could be measured out in the comics I read regularly, and the thread connecting them was my slate, the scritchy-scratchy companion of my childhood years. About the size of an A4 page, a rectangle of slate … Read more
A few tips for infanticipating women by Dr Sandra Segget of Gargunnock Royal Infirmary Trust Plc. Dedicated to all children and the fathers that bore them [to tears]. Babies and the Law Babies are considered by the law to be in utero until born, when they are in loco parentis, the parents’ home. Babies, position … Read more
Time makes solid The bubbling earth Its hurlings frozen In black gestures Years of sleep bring The soft grass To calm the memory And bring little Ishbel, with her red cheeks To play in the shadows Of a catastrophe. © Norman Lamont 2005
My top 8 spiritual rock stars Crass, eh? This is just a personal choice, by no means comprehensive, entirely serious or even fair. But it’s a thread that’s run through my music fandom since I was a teenager. I was somehow attracted to those who had been through the sex/drugs/hedonism of the rock world and … Read more
Shopping trip in downtown Wellington. N and I went to look at a couple of art galleries including the world-famous Te Papa .