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Hard News: My Year in Culture

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  • Lilith __, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    No more scarily-muted decor, no more perspex PCs and credit-card video phones! No more tiny electric cars that never do what you tell them. No more mysterious vans! No more Ron-the-interfering-neighbour with his hedge clippers. No more interchangeable photos of kids with dogs. No more manically-smiling Tandi Wright. No more sweetly brave Miriama McDowell! No more Tania Nolan with the scary hair, no more Charles Mesure with the sexy running....

    Bereft!

    Dunedin • Since Jul 2010 • 3895 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Another fan of Life

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • HORansome, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    Whilst I liked a lot of "This Is Not My Life," I felt the show really had no idea where it was going. I had hoped a second series might deliver the goods, so to speak (the premise was decent but the series was several episodes too long; it should have been six tight episodes rather than a meandering thirteen).

    Tāmaki Makaurau • Since Sep 2008 • 441 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Lunar see... obscured by clods!
    in a dry run for 2012's
    big alignment
    Solar System Services
    (an arm of Galactic Spiral Inc)
    present a Total Lunar Eclipse
    above a horizon near you from 8.36pm (ish)
    tomorrow night - Tuesday Dec 21
    full (mid) eclipse should be around 9.17pm


    sunset is moonrise
    opposition and shadows
    combine on solstice

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    Aue!
    Rain will prevent any insights
    but the summer solstice should be
    danced to, enhanced with a good dram
    and celebrated by all good wights-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia, in reply to Lilith __,

    no more Charles Mesure with the sexy running....

    I'm hoping that V will continue its sharp de-sucking curve, and Mesure will get more to do than stand around, scowling in a vaguely constipated manner.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Lilith __, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    above a horizon near you from 8.36pm (ish)
    tomorrow night – Tuesday Dec 21.

    Ian -- moonrise varies with location quite a lot:

    "Some times of moon rise in New Zealand are:
    N. Is. Auckland 8.35pm, Hastings 8.35pm, New Plymouth 8.45pm, Wellington 8.49pm.
    S. Is. Nelson 8.56pm, Christchurch 9.07pm, Dunedin 9.25pm, Invercargill 9.36pm."
    (quoted from here )

    Unfortunately for most of us the eclipse will be in totality by the time the moon rises so it will be dim and may be difficult to spot, especially as the sky won't be fully dark by then.

    But it is very groovy to have a lunar eclipse on the shortest night of the year!

    Dunedin • Since Jul 2010 • 3895 posts Report Reply

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    Hey, have the associated competitions with this post been drawn?

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

  • Sam F, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,

    Hey, have the associated competitions with this post been drawn?

    Heh, that's right - never did find out who scored the beer!

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1611 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    I've got a bone to pick with you usually impeccable PAS trendsters. Why was I only introduced to the sublimely freak-tastic Janelle Monáe and her brain-blastingly awesome album The ArchAndroid last week?

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    I'm pretty sure I shared this beauty when it came out:


    especially given that it's such a blatant rip-off of the Thin Lizzy tv ad :)

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

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