Posts by Ian Dalziel
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...and Brooks gets a whopping
3.5 million pound payout...
the wages of sin, eh? -
Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Event horrors on...
Better version of the photo of
the dark heart of Chch
<photo credit - Ivan Woods> -
John Key on wild goose chase
despite his protestations of wishing to help with rebuilding Chch (and therefore this story) he has been lead up a garden path by malignant sprites, and has headed off to the USA apparently in search of the Holy Grail!
...and as the TPPA deal drew closer, poor John suddenly realised - "oh dear Mammon, those aren't Eagles, they're Vultures!" -
sonofagun...
Stenson - Golf? Pah!
obviously this is an offspring of a sten gun.
This Oliphant chappie is clearly a Top Gun,
with a head-mounted sub-submachine gun
- shooting mean looks about the place....the ongoing PAStiche...
I've been thinking some more about Sayana's excellent page 1 suggestion of alternate realities interacting - a kind of Mievillesque tale of two cities ...
adding the aspects of Fringe with alternate worlds (toss in a pinch of Zelazny's Princes in Amber and Moorcock's Multiverse) plus the possibility of a inter-dimensional portal in the heart of the city - hinted at in the photo on The Press's front page today, of the black hole where the city centre was...
And as we all know (the council told us) Christchurch is a lot like Melbourne:There are immediate similarities between the two cities - including the regular street pattern, a river that wends its way through the city and an awareness of the need for recovery.
so out in the unrepairable riparian Red Zones where the wide and mighty Avon/Nova River wends its way from the west, through the unstable zone and out past sundered banks, and broken homes, strange artifacts wash up amidst the large ships that ply these waters. Above it all one hears the Sirens calling beguilingly to the unwary, small children are chained to stop them being spirited away...
and somewhere amidst the rubble and trouble, St Richie's Winkie twinkles pinkly, unseen, waiting... waiting for a hero, or a metro-hetero, or just a simple twist of fate.
Enter the simple sheriff - Innspectre Dirk Arsemouse (Switch Finder General and Protector of the Incandescent orbs) and his murky men!
now, write on...
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Radlers of the lost art...
Forgive me if someone has already said this
- but I too am hopping mad about this...
DB (fully owned by Singaporean based company Asia Pacific Breweries) has gone too far recently...
They tried to rewrite our political history and sell it back to us...
(the first Kuhtze is the deepest!)
Now they are denying the existence of a major European (well at least German, Bavarian and Czech) brewing tradition.
While they insist (nay, litigate) that others peddle theirs as pedallers.
May this be the bier on which DB burns!Meanwhile - Don't put a Tiger© in your tank!
or any of their other products. -
OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Russell Brown,
he's pulling our lego...
a close up of Mr Farrar's calculator?
Now known in the trade as a farrago... -
Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Barnestorming... ;- )
If we all pull together perhaps
we could see the .…soap flow, sir
then we could do
swaps for oil
and
if Laws spoor
leads to
waif slops or
even a
solo fir wasp
then our
prow of sails
slows for a pi
and the
wolf piss oar
slips, fwooar... -
Speaker: Sharks Dine Out on…, in reply to S Schumacher,
Maybe I’m missing something here,
so I’m happy to be enlightened.Empathy?
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A recipe for... an evening at home
I’m thinking braised beef short ribs
could be the go.beefy shorts 'n' bruised ribs
with liniment sauce, yum.......reminds me of watching the Crusaders final
at our local tavern - not something I'll do again.
If all that testosterone gets crammed into
the test tosser zone it's gonna be ugly...
I worry that many NZ Rugby fans are just
not adult enough to not let the side down. -
Born again...
Striking resemblance to Citizen Kane....
and some great sound bites (nudge - Media 7):“A newspaper can create great controversies, stir up arguments within the community, can throw lights on injustices,” he said, “just as it can do the opposite: hide things, be a great power for evil.”
...and I'm thinking, in a massive irony, Steve Coogan could play the young Rupert very well!
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