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Sintax | Sep 02, 2010 11:52
Damian Christie - Cracker With Attitude
It's been a wee while, and by way of apology I will be giving away some frankly excellent kiwi music t-shirts below, so keep reading. Actually it's not by way of apology at all, I've been meaning to give these t-shirts away for a few weeks, and the only reason...
No Smoke | Sep 02, 2010 11:47
Emma Hart is all sweary again.
It was the new Sherlock that first made me think about it. It was pretty clear that a modernised Holmes wasn't going to be using cocaine, and okay the nicotine patches replaced the pipe quite nicely, but what about the total lack of Peruvian Speed Bump? It became another typical...
So. I'm off Te Radar again | Sep 01, 2010 19:47
Even though some may prefer to presume otherwise: I don't know Te Radar. Yes, he and I have met briefly on social occasions in the company of mutually reprehensible friends, but I have always been uncomfortable with that notion that because you might have a "name" or media presence –...
The Suicide Question | Sep 01, 2010 10:51
This week's Media7 looks at an issue that has been percolating in the news media for months, and reaches a conclusion of sorts today: news media reporting of suicide. Steven Price has examined the wording of the Coroner's Act, which forbids anyone to "make public any particular relating...
Shambeerla at Beervana | Aug 31, 2010 12:01
Hadyn Green IS Bullet Surprise
There are worse ways to spend your Saturday than drinking beer with friends. A few hundred friends. And to also have the chance to talk to the people who made the beer you're drinking is pretty cool too. It's like walking through an art gallery with the artists. My beertinery...
The Truth About Talkback | Aug 27, 2010 08:55
David Haywood from Christchurch
When I look back, I realize that my university career ended -- or, at least, began to end -- with a party. I hadn't wanted to go, of course. But the Dean of Science, Gavin Ramsay, persuaded me that it would be good for my research. "Everyone needs a break...
John Roughan is Scared | Aug 17, 2010 10:13
GUEST: Patrick Reynolds thinks Auckland could be good, even
How has this usually confident and cocksure commentator got himself into such a flap? (See: Tunnel vision threatens Super City, NZ Herald, July 31.) What 'monster' is keeping him awake at night? Is he fretting about global warming, about how we should be looking for opportunities in the...
Absent Members | Aug 08, 2010 23:14
Graeme Edgeler learns the lesson of history
The Civil List Act doesn't get much press. But the laughable $10 fine per sitting day it imposes for AWOL MPs has some calling for change. Newspapers editors. Political journalists. Bloggers. Even the Speaker. Unlike just about everyone else, it's...
This Is Not My Dan Carter | Jul 28, 2010 18:01
You can say a lot of things about TVNZ – and people do – but you can't say they've been mean to local drama lately. Go Girls always gets a big push, and they are promoting the crap out of This Is Not My Life, especially the Charles...
A Message from the National Party | Jul 19, 2010 00:02
A Thought Went Up My Mind To-day | Jul 06, 2010 03:51
Jolisa Gracewood reads very closely
I don't know why this page hasn't been updated in so long. Obviously some technical glitch in the brain-machine interface, as I've been blogging like mad the whole time. You know, the usual chattering stream of perfectly formed consciousness -- limpid, crystalline and deeply musical as it burbles across the...
No Fretful Sleeper | Jul 02, 2010 09:31
GUEST: Paul Millar on Bill Pearson
In November 2004 Bill Pearson's trenchant essay 'Fretful Sleepers' was posted on Public Address as part of Russell's Great New Zealand Argument series. As I was then researching Pearson's life for my biography No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson, I wrote a brief preface to the...
That's my cab | Jun 11, 2010 08:04
The front page of the New Zealand Herald this morning honours the memory of George Bernard Shaw. Unable, it seems, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation, it offers us a long, loving description of Chris Carter's pink shopping bike and many photos of Shane Jones'...