An early work-in-progress dedicated to
helping precipitate the
Great Mobilisation,
circuitouslby provoking a novel by an award-winning author, to provoke a movie etc. of, to help build the mandate for the Churchillian leadership of…y
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Cimino | 6 Jul 2024
Given Hutch’s deterioration, it risks seeming a cruel question. Judging, however, he’ll welcome it, Cimino asks his old primary school friend—and author of a round forty published books: “Hutch, are you currently writing?” His eyes light up. Enthusiastically, walking-
Cimino | 12 Jul 2024
Gifted his first chapter by Hutch, Cimino suddenly realises he’s been gifted his second, by Biden. The previous day, on their way home from visiting a 92-year-old friend whose face, voice, and faculties, would render him far fitter than the incumbent, for…
Cimino | 14 Jul 2024
Listening to his youngest, ‘waiting house’ roommate crying himself to sleep broke Cimino’s heart. The boy was more than 500 kilometres from his East Coast hill country sheep station home. His mother could not have had the slightest notion of the privations visited on…
Cimino | 19 Jul 2024
First tool suggested itself on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Auckland Regional Parks. Cimino had convinced his fellow Friends of Regional Parks committee members that it was an auspicious time to propose a 50-year plan for the 41 000-hectare…
Cimino | 7 Aug 2024
Opportunist, along with perfectionist, were just two of the many terms Cimino, as a child, had misapprehended as entirely laudatory attributes—Cimino and a sibling being, almost certainly, each somewhere along the autistic continuum. Although his father, Claud…
Cimino | 25 Jul 2024
One, final year at a campus more hallowed than a freshly built district high school plus prefabs didn’t dramatically deepen Cimino’s education. Mount Albert Grammar, at the time, wasn’t even excelling in its previous one-claim-to-fame—rowing—down from its…
by Cimino | 9 Sep 2024
Audacity to hope burned all-too briefly, in 2008. Barely elected, Barack Obama abjectly failed his followers by cravenly surrounding himself with the suddenly-out-of-a-job, hand-picked neoliberal phalanx poised to run Hillary Clinton’s stillborn administration. Hope…
Cimino | 9 Jul 2024
Before forsaking the sea, and since his fourth-form high-school year, Cimino’s hobby—and sporadic vocation—had been boat design. In an undisciplined effort to learn about naval architecture, he’d read every book on small-boat design he could lay his hands…
Cimino | 21 Jul 2024
Food, clothing, shelter, and something to hope for—to paraphrase Kirk. First for a few, and now for generations, since 1984 when the Labour Party set about with its secret, state-destroying agenda, increasing numbers of New Zealand children have gone…
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