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HOW WHAT I NAMED CANTO POP BECAME CANTO PAP.
Being the person who created the term or genre or whatever it is and called it Canto Pop, I wish I hadn’t, because it stalled many moons...

Hans Ebert
Feb 274 min read
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WHO SENT IN THE CLOWNS?
Why the world is so full of anger was a question my girlfriend asked me over the weekend. Being a lawyer and not a simpleton, it was a...

Hans Ebert
Feb 253 min read
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HORSE RACING IN HONG KONG AND THE GAME CHANGER.
It was the day after Hong Kong’s equine superstar Romantic Warrior had been downed by Japan’s exceptional galloper Forever Young in...

Hans Ebert
Feb 244 min read
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Why the magic of music needs a new delivery system.
Sounds too corny to be true, but during those days when feeling weary and small, something seemingly insignificant to do with music can...

Hans Ebert
Feb 104 min read
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There needs to be new magicians for music to be magical.
Maybe we thought we were better than we actually were, some got ahead of themselves and with too many playing roles, but working in the...

Hans Ebert
Feb 88 min read
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THE RETURN OF BIFF THE BULLY
Nobody’s Right when there is no Left, which means that being right has either been obliterated or is in the comments section about...

Hans Ebert
Feb 72 min read
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THE TAO OF HANS
Someone messaged me last night to say that only one person had won HK$193 million in the Hong Kong lottery known as the Mark Six. The...

Hans Ebert
Feb 35 min read
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THE MARKETING CHUTZPAH OF “A COMPLETE UNKNOWN”
What is “creative” is usually something very subjective. Or can this “creativity” be sold through clever and strategic marketing as it’s...

Hans Ebert
Jan 313 min read
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Horse racing and the emergence of Girl Power!
She was positive, but there was no hiding the fact that the very well spoken Sharyn Lancaster, Racing Training Manager at RWWA, below,...

Hans Ebert
Jan 312 min read
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FOR WHOM DOES ANOTHER RACING BELL TOLL?!!!
Received over the past few weeks have been anonymous and quite riveting updates on certain ladies in racing said to be cat fighting...

Hans Ebert
Jan 271 min read
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THE RAMBUTANS IN AND OUT AWARDS
******************** *Rediscovering the work of filmmaker David Lynch *Real intelligence and not the artificial kind. *Monica Barbaro and...

Hans Ebert
Jan 271 min read
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THE RAMATAN FILES
There’s so much wackiness, weirdness and way too much much ado about nothing happening every minute of every day that it’s really become...

Hans Ebert
Jan 272 min read
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RACING INTO A WORLD OF HAPPINESS
A friend of mine from Finland visiting Hong Kong for the first time was asking me about the horse racing in the city- who was who, those...

Hans Ebert
Jan 212 min read
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Looking back and moving forward…
A friend of mine was explaining to me that Hong Kong could never have a Steven Spielberg or a Jim Henson or pretty much anything to do...

Hans Ebert
Jan 173 min read
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DAVID LYNCH AND A NICE CUPPA JAVA
In the midst of writing about something or another that can wait, or better yet, be forgotten about altogether instead of sinking into...

Hans Ebert
Jan 171 min read
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JUICY AND PRICKLY RAMBUTANS
Before the world “WOKE” up! Many moons ago and before the world became AWOKE and awash and tripping over itself to be inclusive and...

Hans Ebert
Jan 163 min read
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We’re all complete unknowns until we find ourselves
It’s hard to explain or figure out the enigma that is Bob Dylan, because he created a product AND the content. Here’s something and...

Hans Ebert
Jan 124 min read
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LESSONS LEARNED FROM BOB DYLAN: BEING LIKE A ROLLING SONG AND DANCE MAN
“He who ain’t busy born is busy dyin’.” Bob Dylan wrote that line in the mid Sixties and it made the bats and other stuff in the belfry...

Hans Ebert
Jan 113 min read
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There’s West World and then there’s Zac World
I’ve pretty much heard it all about Zac Purton- everything from how he was an unharnessed and undisciplined young rat bag talent when in...

Hans Ebert
Jan 94 min read
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THE CHANGING FACE OF CRICKET AND THE GIFT OF GIVING
They were two magnificent cricket matches, but also very much needed life lessons and, if they haven’t already, other sports can learn...

Hans Ebert
Jan 72 min read
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