Posts by James Butler
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Live,
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It’s Neil Young and Crazy Horse – how do you think it sounds?
They've been playing that song for 35 years and it still sounds, once or twice, like it could all fall to pieces. Beautiful.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Warren Clark,
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there are some things that are more important then money
Sweet, where can I buy them?
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Danielle,
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That post made me start mentally singing a Tori Amos song.
You think that's bad? Russell's reply gave me a Greg Johnson earworm.
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In a column in yesterday’s Dominion Post (which unfortunately doesn’t seem to be online)
Is it this one?
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Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Hilary Stace,
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PAS word-of-the-year time must be coming up soon.
I nominate "hacker"; if we allow phrases, then "malicious hacker" or "physical separation".
Also, congratulations Russel and co. on blogging for so much longer than blogs have existed. I seldom comment here now, but discussions I have been involved in , and people I have met both virtually and in person, have influenced my worldview no end. For the better I hope.
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Hard News: Special Sources, in reply to Hebe,
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It is momentarily interesting offshore.
The one thing that's apparently not interesting offshore is Ira Bailey's past associations - in Charles Anderson's post on the New York Times blogs, he's just "an information technology administrator". If only some locals could just let him be what he is.
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the super-premium end of modern manhood
To me this reads as either "men with surgically-enhanced penises" or "expensive gigolos". Perhaps both.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Sacha,
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not setting the bar far from the ground
Under-promise and over-deliver?
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
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So not only is the y axis full of shit but so is the x axis?!?!?
More spatter than scatter.
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Hard News: Reviews: #NZGT and the Herald, in reply to Peter Calder,
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In the old days in Herald features there was a sub – now, mercifully, not among us – who had to be physically restrained from changing “missed by a mile” to “missed by 1.6km”. I am not making this up.
I’d like to see said sub dealing to the word “milestone”.
ETA: Yes I know, it's "10.2 kilometre kilograms" before anyone gets smart.