Posts by Ian Dalziel
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**Same jive in Christchurch…
Except to defeat the malls in the burbs (new ones coming along as well) they are talking about a mall in the central city… clever huh? Doh!
We used to have a lot of arcades, but they have all fallen away and are virtually empty, or gone…The Chch tram is not priced for local use, so we don’t use it, and won’t when it has been extended out through High street and the Polytech – almost to Lancaster Park (or whatever corporate nomenclature it languishes under now) apparently for the Rugby World Cup – even though the council is promoting the “Rugby Road” walk-to-the-game-from-the-city idea – but gee if a couple of hundred people can catch a tram almost there for the few games we have here, well it will have been worth demolishing the gym at the polytech and creating a hazardous pedestrian area in Poplar lane, and even more gridlock for the Manchester/High st area – Bob Parker is happy to help!
We do have an Orbiter bus service that hits many of the major suburban malls, though.
Personally, I avoid all malls as much as possible, one seldom seems happy people there, they are stress factories… more Ruck than Maul…
Ironic that Mall is derived from "…a tree-bordered walk in St. James’s Park, London, so named because it was the site of a pall-mall alley."
and not from Mallet – which might be more appropriate – hammering retail as they do……perhaps the next evolution is the Mallette?
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Mind you, the funniest one was May last year, when he had a broken hip....
guess there were a few Hip Priest jokes then...
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The US has an interesting arc
over the past few decades:
- hegemony (same old dominate tricks)
- hedge money (risque business)
- hedge funds (and fundamentalists)
- hedgehogs (and other ratty pricks)
- hedge moany (we never saw it coming)......and all with no application of Hegel it seems.
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I think there’s very good reason why Obama’s team is made up of people like Holbrooke
Zbigniew Brzezinski ?
and David Axelrod ? -
Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Tony Parker,
I see that it's still Murray Crane driving it, so much the same as what he did with the Little Brother range a few years back, then...
though, the download is a nice new twist...
hope the artists are getting their cut... -
take me to your Lydia...
What, the tattooed lady?
bloody Marxists!
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Kage Baker's "Company" series is just brilliant.
and I've only recently heard that, sadly Kage Baker died January 31, 2010. So Not Less Than Gods (which I'm just about to start) is probably, the last 'Company" book.
Can a TV series be far away?Sally your son (and others) might enjoy Cory Doctorow's YA novel For the win which is also available as a free Creative Commons book online
and possibly Paul Melko's debut Singularity's Ring ...
...I had to write to Tor Books about some of the glaring typos and spellcheck pass-overs, which don't help reinforce a young mind's grasp of language.though, I'd keep him away from Poppy Z. Brite for a while yet...
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The Name of the Roadies *
And you get to feel special when the
roadie does sound check....and if you are of the Emo /Goth persuasion
the roadie will give you the special attribution
of "Test test, wan too..."* Is it Lola?
an Umberto Umberto Echo? -
__Do not calle up that wych ye cannot put downe__
- H P Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror.and
IA! IA!
PH’NGLUI M’GLUNAFPH DON BRASH OREWA ROTARY CLUB WAGH NAGL F’TAGHN!
THE STARS ARE NIGH TO COMING INTO THEIR RIGHT ALIGN, LO!
THE GREAT OLD ONE SHALL ARISE FROM BEING DEAD-BUT-DREAMING!
WOE UNTO YE WHO UNBELIEVE!
THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE, HE RISES!
IA! DON BRASH F’TAGHN!Now here's something that would
be hard to put down...A panda conspiracist??? OMG we’re doomed.!
Black and White
and Red all over? -
living on the edge of the law.
no, no, no - that's the mighty Avon you are living on the edge of!
here's a picture of Avonside in better days
(recently purchased by the Chch Art Gallery )
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(TOTH to Peter D)