Posts by Russell Brown
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Buchenwald is smack in the middle of Germany, only "walking distance" to Auschwitz if you're very dedicated.
Perchance you were thinking of Birkenau, which *is* very close to Auschwitz, but still wasn't liberated by the US.
Duh. My apologies. I took that from a blog comment by someone who claimed to have visited and be highly familiar with both. I have annotated the original post with teh <strike>.
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(I probably didnl't embed that right)
I fixed it for you. Like I said, no embed code needed, just the URL ...
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If she sends coded messages of her support for the war on freedom, what hope have we got?
Hoodies.
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Links on Friday? Go check out Links on Friday on my site, if I can link whore like a great carpark lurking thrupenny link whore. I do it every Friday. Righto.
I'm a liberal when it comes to linkwhoring.
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Back in '72 Mudoch's Australian papers pushed hard for a Whitlam victory, while Fairfax and Packer (Frank, Kerry's dad) were plugging for the Liberals. He's a pragmatic old bastard when it suits.
And of course, when The Sun suddenly fell in love with Tony Blair, you knew the tide had turned on the Tories.
Although perhaps that's not a very happy example ...
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It's increasingly difficult to get vegemite in the states I understand. Something in it - B12 maybe? - is a restricted import substance or some such silly thing.
I recall a funny story a while back about US Customs agents raiding a marine vessel with NZers aboard. They totally freaked out when they found the jar of dark brown sticky stuff, which quite clearly could not be food ...
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I'll start: The Onion's Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose is teh funny.
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Ben King and Adam Bryce talk about The Wire, their new group blog site by and about creative New Zealanders, from Bic Runga and Liam Finn to film guy Ant Timpson.
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And as for Ron Mark; funnily enough I hadn't even heard of him until Russell's post. It took me a while to put two and two together when I saw the name on the office next to the loo upstairs from the bookshop, until I realised he was the hoodie hater!
You shoulda popped a cap in his ass.
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The Highlanders have clearly turned you off sport entirely.
Grant Robertson for Minister of Sport. Only hope.
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