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There is the old, hippie-era joke I wrote down in my notebook and I can’t remember where I found it. It goes - “She came into our room the other night yelling about peace and love,” said the Wife. “Too many groups are coming in with this militant talk,” added the husband. 

Notes I scribbled as I made dinner

I've just read Raymond Carver's short story Where I'm Calling From. It is the first thing by Carver I've read, and I quite enjoyed it. I have seen somewhere that Haruki Murakami is a huge Carver fan and I noticed some similarities between them. Their sentences are the same, the tools of a sharp realism which is short and to the point. Also similar is the is the location of a isolated retreat; in Where I'm calling From, it is a clinic for alcoholics. Retreats are common in H.M's work,

O For A Muse Of Fire

So, I had an idea that if I had writers block I could just go on Wikipedia and cannibalize an event from history and select a random page, regurgitating what I got back in this post.  

Reading the front page of Wikipedia today. It is 139 year since the Provinces of colonial New Zealand were finally abolished after most of them had gone bankrupt. Apart from most of the regional holidays in New Zealand, they have a very little legacy.

It is All Saint's Day, but nothing interesting to write about there. It is International World Vegan day, a celebration held by The Vegan Society. I was surprised to learn that the Vegan Society was founded  way back in November 1944, although they were 97 years behind their Cheese-eating cousins of the Vegetarian Society, which was founded in the UK in 1847.

Exhausting anniversaries, I selected a random Wikipedia page to find something to write about. I got an article on Georgia Chapman, which is so short I may as well just copy an paste it.

Georgia Chapman (born 12 February 1987^[1]) is an Australian association footballer who last played for the Brisbane Roar in the Australian W-League. She is also a teacher and is the twin sister of Amy Chapman.
 - From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia   

I think if I want to produce interesting content, I can't just phone it in. I will have to do some real work.
Bugger.