The waye to figure out yf you are talkinge wyth a cat on the ynternet ys to aske the person you are talkinge to "have you been fedde" and yf thei saye "no my bowle ys alwayes emptye" BINGO you are talkinge wyth a catte on the internet. The Purring Test.

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Ther ys beautye yn everye part of thys worlde. Ther ys beautye yn everye thinge. Yf you thynke about it, and trulye ponder any thinge, you will fynde beautye yn it. Except a cybertruck. Blech.

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...from the big music stores and the only explanation given...was that they were not in stock. The Musicians’ Union began to take an interest...It found that pressure was being put on dealers by overseas manufacturers and anyone handling local records would not be supplied with their products."

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In 1952 Martyn Finlay, a lawyer (later an MP in Norman Kirk’s government) wrote this incredible opinion piece about HMV NZ’s monopoly over the record industry in the early 1950s. How's this? "A few weeks ago the products of the NZ companies began to disappear... 🧵 audioculture.co.nz/articles/hmv...

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An important historical document from 1952, about how a multinational cultural monopoly sought to suppress local music in New Zealand.

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