Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit,

    @ Rob Stowell

    BTW, do you have any connection with a Bob Stowell? American, in Chch in the late 60s.

    ...and possibly the Laurel Stowell I went through my later school years with?
    (Chch in the early-mid '70s)

    ...at the bottom of the tower with the observatory dome on top

    I dread to think what the plonkers currently mismanaging the Arts Centre will do about the Observatory Tower, it is still closed to the public...
    I'd also love to know how much of the Arts Centre Trust's money, that should have been spent on earthquake strengthening, went on their flash Auckland lawyers during the Music Centre debacle...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…,

    ..and hasn't Fleur just opened a new restaurant in the old Oamaru Stone precinct, as well?
    Hope she still has the one at Moeraki also...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit,

    a swell alternative...

    (Or go down to the dairy and buy a can of Harden Up. If they sell it in the massive quantities required, that is.)

    Sounds like one of them new-fangled RTDs,
    whatever happened to good old Tume Essence ?

    The only bad humans are of Middle Eastern stock, just as the men of the West invade the Gulf? I don’t know, you tell me.

    Filming of that scene, which was cut from the theatrical release, was completed in 2000, undoubtably designed before that, well before us Westerners engaged in our latest invasion of the gulf.

    What about 1991 ? When the US-led coalition "liberated" Kuwait from the Iraqi invaders (spurred on by international condemnation, created by Hill & Knowlton's creative use of, well, lies - about babies being tipped out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital...
    Packaging and promoting the evil middle easterners was a nice little earner for H&K.


    ....and is it just me, or does that Tucson shooter look a lot like John Key?

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit,

    the mind buggles...

    Facebook killed the Radio Star.

    I note, also, that News Corp is seemingly
    readying to sell off MySpace

    Data from comScore shows global MySpace unique user numbers falling 26.4% from 110.8 million in September 2009 to 81.5 million by November 2010. In the UK, traffic fell from 5.1 million to 2.3 million unique users over the same period.

    ...will Rupert and his Saudi chums ever solve the problem of making money online...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…,

    dead pan...

    I guess, but unless you produce lots of gold yourself your economy is fucked....

    ...Apparently silly …. is that the N word is ‘more’ offensive today than it was over a hundred years ago...

    Nugget?
    ....another one for the wordpile
    no clemency for Clemens, I see....

    or I have I got the wrong end of the stick...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: A very roundabout review of…,

    a wry tangle...
    I, for one, never thought
    there would be so many
    stairways in The Grid...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…,

    Anyone else had the horror of that stench?

    after years of H.P. Lovecraft
    I was still unprepared for the
    full olfactorial horror of
    the truly noisome carrion
    call of the charnel channel

    Big old house
    off Allenby Steps
    staring straight down
    vertigoing into Boulcott st

    Top floor verandah
    last tenants long gone
    their rubbish bags out
    bleaching in the sun

    The emptied fridge
    baking in the sun
    meat in a black bag
    writhing in the sun

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…,

    Leg-ends and other extrememeists...

    I have been sent a pattern for some Tardis socks.

    how about gloves?
    ...if you've got time
    on your hands
    and you are
    making arm-ends!

    ...though those
    tubular matrices
    can be tricky...

    purling the wormhole

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…,

    I the Judgey-Pants...
    One imagines the Powers-That-Be, (and especially Simon Power), would be worried that a jury might return a vox pop decision, such as the freeing of Waihopai 3... (a result I was delighted in by the way)

    ...these selfsame PTB would also be worried about seeming to take a backward step on (drum roll) Terrorism! (or such as it is perceived to be in NZ in this, the first tenth of the 21st century) - witness the USA's dilemma with Obama, on inauguration, pledging to close the Guantanamo Bay retribution facility within a year - a month short, he announces it won't close - largely due to the way people ended up there and the Americans' inability to enter due judicial process - their old, and sad, "do as I say, not as I do" routine will ultimately undo them.

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…,

    She'll be right...
    'Victorian Steam Phunk' aside, it must be admitted that She does have good legal credentials - it being the source of Horace Rumpole's "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed" in John Mortimer's classic TV Series.

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

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