Posts by Andre
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@BenWilson That map retaining Freemans Bay and Harbour St in St Mary's Bay as part of Auckland City is just cynical. I imagine rating levels would be very different than what they are now. Maybe it's part of the Victoria Park Underpass project where they shift the Birdcage up the street 30 metres? I wonder if they plan to retain Jacob's Ladder? I'm surprised the PC brigade haven't banned children from these almost vertical steps yet - they're awesomely steep!
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The Maori Party are looking a bit bedraggled this week and may be angry at the Nats for getting the better of them over ETS - so their claims for Maori representation will become more strindent. By supporting Len Brown they are in effect endorsing the opponent of their coalition partner in parliament. How far will this go? I suppose it's just a question of how angry they are...
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Sainsbury's coverage was hilarious and stupid. The kids in the background looked fairly happy that TVNZ were covering their party in an A-List/Norrie Montgomery style almost. The student rep repeated his pre-rehearsed sound-bite a couple of times - he's got a big future in Wellington ahead of him perhaps.
This is a stupid situation that could have been headed off at the pass. This event is organised by Canterbury students and Dunedin has to deal with them - sort of like a drunk and slow-moving cannonball run. If I organised 500 of my friends to do the same I imagine the cops would stop us by Lincoln and tell us to go home or be arrested. Especially having pulled the same stunt the year before with similar results.
@Lucy Stewart has a great point about South Auckland. Can you imagine Close Up broadcasting from outside the Killer Bees HQ last year with a party going on behind him?
Many of the rioters aren't students. They are just kids running amok - which is fine sometimes but this lot were basically police sanctioned. My slightly older brother went to university and I chose to go straight to work (studying wasn't my thing I'm afraid) but that didn't stop me hanging out with the IH, Grafton and O'Rourke students all year when I was 16 and attending almost every function they went to. Orientation week was a highlight. The pub crawl could be fairly disruptive but we didn't destroy property or assault anyone. No laws were broken except the ones that involved getting drunk or stoned. If I had become a trouble-maker I would have been branded a "uni student" by the press at the time.
I wonder whether they'll have another crack at the undie 500 next year. If they do I imagine that it will be a lot more like the real Cannonball Run with the Police actually bothering to stop them instead of pointing them in the right direction to Dunedin... -
It sounds like you need Romy & Michelle - brilliant role models for school reunionising!
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ahhh my mistake...
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They need a (Sir) Walter Nash. I reckon if he was still around he would have told them to naff off wirh the honorific BTW. He was an establishment figure who believed in equality. Almost as if Ted Kennedy had been made president. Americans seem to believe that ensuring people don't die is socialism but also seem to think that they are the most friendly people on the planet. "Hi there. I want to be your friend. You seem to have cut your leg off. Don't ask me to help. Have you got any money?". It all leaves me a bit cold.
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Holy Grail sorry
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Maybe Anthony McCarten doesn't want the Price of Milk distributed too widely unless it goes all "Ladies Night" on him and ends up as "The Full Monty". That was the most disgusting rip-off of a NZ cultural icon since Richard Pearse, The Finns and Baigent's the Holy Blood and the Goly Grail (the Da Vinci Code) BTW...
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Media7 ran an interesting piece about book publishing last night. I don't know anyone with a kindle device. Does anyone?
I've never been to London and LMFAO hearing people bleat about how horrible it is to be there. It's sooooo Remuera Morrison. -
Why not have a NZ Film Month on TV instead of at the cinemas? Why don't Sky, Mediaworks or TVNZ have a NZ film channel? Wouldn't this get a higher viewership and return similar cultural benefits to Maori TV? John Davies at the Academy also runs Arkles Entertainment (NZ's largest independent movie distribution company) and he is a champion of local films. I imagine that John is running lots of kiwi films without getting a financial return and wonder whether the big chains would be willing to follow suit without his commitment to the local industry.