Posts by Russell Brown
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This story says that the wife was prevented from using dedicated disabled parking by a young policeman who threatened to arrest her if she didn't piss off. Gawd.
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That the Prime Ministerial party were going to be runniing for their lives from the worse classic music-related riot since the notorious première of Le Sacre du printemps.
Quite. And I'm sure if someone had asked Clark whether an elderly woman should have been prevented from waiting for her 81 year-old Parkinson's-afflicted husband, she'd have made her feelings clear. Assuming the member of the public made her case clear, someone should have had the brains to do a reasonable risk analysis and let her sit there.
OTOH, if 200 metres was too far, she might be advised to call the venue and make arrangements in future.
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Oh, and also Bob Frisbee kinda sold me last Friday on his theory that the best version of 'I Feel Love' is the original album version.
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I wonder what the young lad who arrived at Rip It Up all those years ago would've thought about that ;)
Well, there was the odd nightclub that provided an education: I recall going to the booth and asking Peter Urlich to drop Stephanie Mills' 'Pilot Error'. And of course the editor was wise in the ways of the Funk.
And I remember Hal Chapman coming through to the RIU office from Snake T-shirts offering to throttle me if I played 'Let the Music Play' another time ...
Which provides a brilliant intro to another delight from Chris Bourke. He's republished the 20-year Rip It Up retrospective he wrote in 1997.
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Come on, I described PAS as "NZ's preeminent leftie blog", I thought you would be flattered!! You are to the left of center, I would have thought that this would have been a fairly uncontroversial statement.
Sorry -- that obviously wasn't clear. And I wouldn't call you a wingnut.
No, I was referring to quite a few Kiwiblog comments loons over the years. I once chanced upon a Trade Me forums discussion where one guy was breathlessly informing another that I was an "extreme Marxist". That was funny in a slightly disturbing way ...
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I have had the fortune to discover the Public Address site recently, and at the same party last Fri night where I spoke briefly to Russell - "love your work", etc - I FOOSH. That's what the discharge papers said, and apparently that means Fell On Out Stretched Hand.
Oh god, what a bummer. Nice to meet you though -- and I feel guilty now for applauding you when you went down.
I should explain to readers that this all happened in the context of a bunch of grown-ups dancing maniacally to 'Le Freak' and 'I Feel Love' at 1am in a villa in Grey Lynn. It's all disco magic until someone FOOSHes, isn't it?
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@Grant
Professional cricket has less and less room for the notion of "the spirit of the game". If there were any spirit in the game then people would be motivated by it. Instead the only motivation left is what can be gained for oneself. The spirit of the game is constantly being legislated away. With each new penalty for over rates or behaviour or something equally ridiculous the freedom of expression that any sport thrives on is being turned into another set of rules by which we must conduct ourselves.
There are perfectly good reasons to stipulate over-rates, some of them relevant off the field. Paying crowds have a right to see a decent amount of cricket played, and the broadcasters who put so much money into the game need it to run roughly to schedule.
Collingwood acted correctly and Vettori is crying like a little baby.
He doesn't think he acted correctly, and it seems that no one with any stature in the game does. Boycott, for one, was emphatic that Collingwood's refusal to call Elliot back ran against the preamble to the laws of the game, added in 2000 and covering, yes, the spirit of the game.
The unique character of cricket in this respect is demonstrated by the fact that a captain can call back a player who has been adjudged out. Is there another international sport that provides for this kind of thing?
Easily evidenced by the fact that he bases his reaction on the outcome. If there is injustice then it deserves addressing regardless of the result and New Zealand's approach to the game, where they constantly push the letter of the law and further erode the spirit, is only helping to destroy tradition, fair-play, gentlemanly conduct and any respect they might have earned.
Drawing a long bow, anyone? Vettori merely observed that the fact that they'd won after all made it easier to shake hands and move on. That's a perfectly logical statement, and I can't see how it relates to your splenetic outburst above.
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Whoops. Just fixed the blockquote formatting there.
But yeah, the relativity argument about forward passes will never die.
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Paul
There was another side to National's reply, detailed here:
I think this tiff is already past its use-by date, but Soper does have a point there.
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You're not the only person who does that then. Every so often, I have this little voice pop up and say, "I hope you realise what a fortunate SOB you really are -- because you traded all the way up. David - not so much." :)
Awwww ... but you know he thinks he's lucky to have you too.
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