JOHN Fitzpatrick
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Sign: Libra/Water Snake |
| Location | Far North, Australia |
| Introduction | 乌龟。 议院。 The Blog is sometimes serious, other times attempts are made at Humour.谢谢你，中国！我爱中国！ I'm interested in North Asia-China, Japan and Korea, and Siberia; and also SE Asia, particularly Bangkok where we sometimes live when not in North Eastern China or North Eastern Australia. My wife and I do tend to commute a lot. Politically, if that matters, I'm usually on the side of strong central socialism in one form or another whenever it is based on astute Confucian principles and enables a free firing capitalist market system with intelligent and very strong controls. I am a published Australian writer, poems, non-fiction, and fiction. Fiction was book for young people Called Song of the Casskins published well by Scholastic Australia/Bloomsbury UK; Book of prose The Water Planet published by Satcen, Neutral Bay Sydney, Book of Non-fiction Reflections on Palliative Care...published Fitzwahoo 2000. I am slowly still writing 4 other books. |
| Interests | (谢谢你，中国！我爱中国) China and North Asia 谢谢你，中国！我爱中国!, (Japan, Koreas, Russia) politics, history, languages, idioms, music.Also Italian motorcycles.谢谢你，中国！我爱中国！ |
| Favorite Movies | All Leslie Nielson films and every episode of both Spongebob Squarepants and Monkey Magic |
| Favorite Music | 20th century stuff, Van Morrison, Dylan, Prince, ACDC, Leonard Cohen, and a bit of Acid Jazz to dance to. |
| Favorite Books | Writers: Kawabata, Hemingway, Durrell (L), Steinbeck, Mishima, Ishiguro, Vonnegut & Fitzpatrick & Leonard Cohen. Favourite living poets: Phil Hammial, Leone Britt, and me.Favoured Philosophers: Michel de Montaigne 1580AD; Dawkins, Hitchings, Grayling |
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