Dennis Atkins

Journalism was a place to learn & have ideas challenged. Not now, Dylan was right: “Something is happening, but you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr Jones?”

[Dennis Atkins @dwabriz]

@heatherewart1 Hope you will call into Coober Pedy. Top spot where there are no street names & everyone collects their mail from the post office where it sits in a big box in the corner. The SA government sent into an old mate to try & put some order into the place but he hoisted the white flag

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I must have missed this but I hear a retired US Army General, Ben Hodges, referred recently to Trump’s Cabinet as a team of “butt-snorkelers”. Nicely put, sir.

[Dennis Atkins @dwabriz]

Words replete with meaning, spoken with real intent: “It’s 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas half a pack of cigarettes. It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.”

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The Duke speaks Truth 👇👇👇👇

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.”

— Duke Ellington

[Dennis Atkins @dwabriz]

By the way, that’s Davis at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival, taken by the photographer who chronicled the San Francisco beat generation Jerry Stoll.

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Anybody & everybody else can think what they want but this is the epitome of cool

[Dennis Atkins @dwabriz]

Anybody & everybody else can think what they want but this is the epitome of cool

[Dennis Atkins @dwabriz]

@KosSamaras Clear political malpractice at work here. If you can’t run a chook raffle stay away from the chook house.

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@MikeCarlton01 Your critic’s hair gives the game away - breaching my rule against ad hominem criticism (not for the first time).

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@heatherewart1 Would’ve been a night & seven eighths - happy day to the Great Russell Barton, a top shelf journo & wrangler of some of the biggest names of the modern (& not quite so modern) era. Wish I could’ve been there.

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Astral Weeks - Slim Slow Slider

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Which album ends with a truly unforgettable closing track?

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Some people own a Ferrari, some deserve to have a Ferrari - ain’t that right @whiteswine?

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Miles Davis and his Ferrari (1969)

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@SwedishAmore The lister didn’t say but I’d guess mid to late 1960s. Lucky folk!

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If someone says is there anywhere you wish you had been but missed, this is certainly in the mix, well in the mix

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@heatherewart1 @abcnews It’s a lovely place with some mighty fine Malaysian food here & there. Say g’day to Butch

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https://t.co/WZ8AP1VkXs

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Not even a week to go before the best line up of local blues music seen in many years. A down-to-the-wire, one-act-standing, contest at @Lefty’s Music Hall in Caxton Street, Paddington, this Sunday afternoon, August 24, doors open at midday, tickets at OzTix or at the door.

[Dennis Atkins @dwabriz]

@plalor 2/2: He personally tortured & murdered prisoners, primarily members of the French Resistance & Jewish people. He was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 4,000 people and the deportation of around 7,500 Jews, most of whom perished in Auschwitz.

[Dennis Atkins @dwabriz]

@plalor This is as bad as anything we’ve seen & heard in Lyon, learning about the terror brought to this city by Klaus Barbie & his SS thugs in 1943-44. Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyon," was head of the Gestapo & responsible for torture, murder, & deportation 1/2

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I do too

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Follow Shane’s work on such matters. I do.

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As the “round table” approaches, there’s this https://t.co/2nE1plEsFX