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January 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 193 Sixty/Thirty

I was thinking back to myself and what I was like at a certain stage in my life – as you do. Wondering – would I even like that person I was then or would he be able to see himself in me. Take when I was thirty… 1988 A young dad – his kids […]

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December 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 189 Holloway Road

We rented it for a start – a small house on Holloway Road and a piece of history. Old George, who lived a few houses down and whose father had famously lived well past a hundred, told me that Winston McCarthy had grown up in our house and it had also been a shop at […]

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November 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 86 Peter McLeavey

He never seemed to age. From the first moment I met him in 1980 to the last time I saw him. He was always a constant yet always so obtuse with his deeply held views and his love of art. Whenever I went to see him in his gallery we always talked about something I […]

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November 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 32 The Blood Group

In 1984 when I became a father for the first time I rediscovered comics. We were living then in a huge warehouse with a big Dr Strange window down one end and it seemed appropriate. They had come a long way since I had read them as a kid in the 60s – there were […]

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July 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 18 The Brain

At the end of the eighties Ross and Wendy had gone off to do other things. For a while the Spines was Neill and me and any ex-bass player or drummer who was in town. My partner Michelle Tayler, Linzy Forbes and I decided it was time for a full colour NZ arts magazine that […]