d r i n k s t e r: EVIDENCE OF VINEYARDS ON MARS LAUNCH

“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”

DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)

02 September 2013

EVIDENCE OF VINEYARDS ON MARS LAUNCH

photo Leo Davis

photo Philip White

Glen Wagland, keyboards, George Grainger Aldridge, illustrations, Philip White, words ... unless otherwise attributed, these photographs were taken by David Hinds at The Garage and The Loft in Adelaide at the launch of the first of our funny books: Evidence Of Vineyards On Mars (foreword by Booker and Whitbread Prize winner DBC Pierre) ... full house; brisk sales; unruly mob; only lies told; that's Big George up the top. The official T-shirts didn't come through in time, so he drew that one just for the day ... and oh yes: did you spot the UFOs? Everybody else looked away, but I got 'em there in the window ... Evidence of Vineyards on Mars is available for $25 from
cwhite@adam.com.au

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hey Whitey, Who's bald head is that hiding behind Carol Whitelock and talking to Dave Hinds ?; September 4, 2013 at 2:40 PM
DRINKSTER said...: Dunno. I thought it was Carol's halo.; September 4, 2013 at 7:24 PM
Ralph Schneider said...: Surprised that a writer (of all people) would erroneously write "forward" instead of "foreword" on his book! I wonder if the Booker Prize-winning D.B.C. Pierre noticed that he was credited on the cover with the "Forward".; November 16, 2013 at 3:58 AM
DRINKSTER said...: We're always looking ahead, Herr Schneider. Get a fucking joke up you.; December 5, 2013 at 12:58 AM

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"After enough years newspapermen begin to pall on other newspapermen; they begin to take their good qualities for granted and wince at their shortcomings, of which the most common are a vanity that sometimes borders on the thespian and a sort of perpetual mental adolescence that I think stems from starting a fresh story every day or every week or month and never having time to get to the bottom of anything. They forget that newspapermen as a class have a yearning for truth as involuntary as a hophead’s addiction to junk. The question of whether the junkie really loves hop is academic; he can’t get along without it. A newspaperman may write a lie to hold his job, but he won’t believe it, and the necessity outrages him so that he craves truth all the more thereafter. A few newspapermen lie to get on in the world, but it outrages them, too, and I have never known a dishonest journalist who wasn’t patently an unhappy bastard."

A.J. Liebling,

war correspondent,

New Yorker,

Algiers,

January 1942.

“Ale, especially that made from barley, clogs the sinews, causes headache and congestion of the head, yet it overstimulates the action of the kidneys, and, when drunk to excess, lowers the temperature. That, however, which is brewed from wheat, and is flavoured with mint and parsley, is judged better for everybody. Still, in the case of persons exposed to the sun’s heat, in feverish conditions and sultry weather, its use is inadvisable.”

From The Science Of Dining – A Medieval Treatise on the Hygiene of the Table and the Laws of Health, translated from the Latin by Arthur S. Way D. Lit, MacMillan, 1936. Previous translation The Schoolmaster, 1583. Original text from Mohammed ibn Zakariya al Razi, Arabic medical writer (865-925AD).

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02 September 2013

EVIDENCE OF VINEYARDS ON MARS LAUNCH

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