Posts by Joe Wylie
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Don't forget the Hare Krishna Zombie:
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My failed attempt to coin a phrase was 'Tinkerblogger', defined as the author of a blog who believes that by writing about something with great frequency or conviction they will cause it to be true.
See The Standard's coverage of the NZ election or (much funnier) NoMinister on the US campaign.Thank you Danyl. From now on I'll think of them as tinkerblogs.
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Wonder if, on that basis, if real estate agents will add google streetview links to their own photos.
Some pertinent discussion at Techsploder:
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"The Summer Sounds Symposium is simply food for a starving mind"
Mike King
Oh dear. Yeah right.
Really, try as I may I can't buy the token right-wing intellectual thing. Every bloody one of them gives the impression of playing up to some kind of equal-time, striving-for-"balance", affirmative-action program.
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__Kiwis have a predilection for inspecting every strand of DNA to determine someone's Maoriness__
Do they? I have formed a strong impression of the opposite.Isn't it one of the good things about NZ that the legal basis for being a Maori is simply considering yourself to be one? It seems a lot better than getting out the calipers and measuring skulls.
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Funny that you should mention We're Here to Help. Given that it was a bigger bomb than The Ferryman, once international sales are taken into account, I wonder why Coddington didn''t get stuck into it? Perhaps because it has Rodney Hide in a heroic role (as played by Michael Hurst).
Heh! And with the IRD shaping to take revenge on tarnished libertarian hero Dave Henderson, best not to go there.
Directed by Baz Lurgi . . . It's called 'Australia' ffs. If that ain't a clear signpost that suggests the director's ego is raging out of control, then I don't know what is.
Xavier Herbert's Poor Fellow My Country disembowdlerised by a team of hairdressers. Great Southern Bland.
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It's a simple mistake anyone could make, really:
I/S, Birmingham's a big hole.True. Though once you've clapped eyes on those kilometres of dreary macrocarpa windbreaks you'll never confuse Burnham with any variety of Birmingham. And, pickiness aside, I am glad that I/S is a pacifist. As the Australian poet Les Murray once said, bugger human sacrifice - if you pile up enough dead bodies around something, even a crappy old concept like Britannia might just get taken seriously by the credulous.
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Waiouru, Linton, Birmingham . . .
Waiouru, Linton, Birmingham - Alabama? Why shoot, those gosh-darn rednecks. Put 'em all in the army.
Burnham. Glad you're a pacifist, Mr. Savant. If you were in the military you'd likely be scouting the Sahara for enemy penguins.
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Finlayson would actually do arts funding bodies (a favour) if he demanded they undergo a plain English audit, and didn't treat public scrutiny or criticism as some kind of Philistine mugging.
Craig - whether or not it was your intention, you've summed up something of Ruth Harley's approach as Film Commission CEO rather well there. A pity, though, that Chris Finlayson didn't apply a little more "scrutiny or criticism" to the NZFC in his time as shadow Arts Minister.
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It's not the Film commission that needs defending, it's those who it's supposed to serve, the public and the filmmakers. Autocratic management, weak ministerial oversight, and a disinterested political opposition have simply provided Coddington with an opportunity to score points, some of which, given her cheap-shot scattergun approach, just happen to be valid.