Posts by Cecelia
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Summer haze gone/Little Barrier clear
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Faceless cats, headless oysties
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Love the way cats communicate with their ears.
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Feathered sky and hayful mellowness
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Agree wholeheartedly with the comments on Wishart and Investigate above. I feel a physical sense of repugnance when I read or hear or see Wishart. I was naive enough to be astounded that a writer for that scurrilous mag could become an MP. An MP. If you look at Prosser's work history, he gained the lowest number of votes in every previous election he entered and finally gained a political position on the NZ First list. How could they? How could they?
Thanks for the succinct analysis below, Craig.
<q>No, Andre, Wishart was a vile bigot, a mendacious hack and a spectacularly disingenuous concern-troll. (I’m sure Helen Clark will be delighted to know Wishart now loathes faith-based misogyny and homophobia.)<q>
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Summer's last hues: Puhoi River
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I quite liked the way Holmes died very publicly, on his own terms. Good to see the process of dying normalised.
I've been thinking about this for a couple of days. I love your comment because it is so wise and humane.
I still have mixed feelings about the public way in which he died, craving the limelight until the end. But as you say, that was the whole point: that's who he was. By seeing his mixture of courage, honesty, fear and denial, we learn what it is like to face our mortality.
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I looked at the Karen YouTube and then watched the story on Seven Sharp on demand. Yes, it did have some interest in a Chloe of Wainuiomata sort of way and I DO want to keep up with the Zeitgeist. The program as a whole was more coherent from what I saw - all fluff instead of an uneasy mix of fluff and serious. CL had two quite trivial stories but the Novopay segment included an insightful comment on Novopay and Hekia Parata which was what I yearn for after the news.
Sad to think that people of my age are no longer considered a good bet by advertisers so TVNZ has just abandoned us.
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Grant McDougall,
I agree about the dog's brekkie. By the time the serious story came on I just couldn't be bothered and found myself moving inexorably towards the computer in the other corner of the lounge. It might have been a good story but after the juvenile stuff I wasn't in the mood.I noticed a musician being interviewed later but I'd never heard of him and wasn't interested. Is there hope for the future? I don't really think so ... I can't see those three fulfilling my prime time needs. John Campbell can be so sycophantic ( is that how you spell it?) but he's going to be my port of call from now on. Will have to wean my husband off One:)
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I'm afraid Seven Sharp lost me after 10 minutes or so. So far, so trivial.
