Posts by Cushla McKinney
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What struck me most when I heard him talking with Kathryn Ryan this morning is how consumate his "everyman' facade is. He seems to be promising to do and be everything-maintain support for those less fortunate (he's a state-house child after all), decease taxes for most New Zealanders by vastly stretching tax thresholds, improve the health service, tackle climate change, keep state assets rather than sell them...all very heartwarming and reassuring and it would be nice to think he could deliver. Trouble is I can't help feeling it's all a little *too* picture perfect. Don may be gone, but those who supported his vision remain and it's what he *didn't* left me checking my back for signs of an ambush.
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Bring back the old days when Lloyd Scott presented The Video Dispatch, a collation of current news stories for younger viewers (now you have to listen to NatRad's graveyard shift to hear his reassuring voice...)
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I have to join the legion of Dr Who, Saffire and Steel and Blakes 7 fans (my favourite line is from Villa, upon regaining consciousness in one episode; "Oh my god I've gone to Hell and it's full of Avons!" Is there a red blooded woman out there who *didn't* fall in love with Paul Darrow? I've been working my way through these old series on DVD and am pleased to find they are as goos as I remember, despite the not-so-special effects. I never saw Under the Mountain but loved the books ("Wilberforcing" became a verb in our household) so I must try and find it. On the more obscure front, I remember Ark II (although I wasn't overly impressed by it) and "A Haunting we will go", but there are another couple which I can't remember the names of that I'd love to know. One was a British comedy about 3 ghosts, one of whom still lived with his parents because he couldn't bring himself to tell them he was dead. A second was a rather creepy series about a young girl who got sucked into some alternate reality via a picture of "The Scream" on her bedroom wall. The last is a BBR arts programme which had all sorts of odd things in it like pictures drawing themselves, and a furry that lived in a grandfather clock that would occasionally zip around the set. Any enlightenmment would be greatly appreciated!
Finally, on the subject of Dr Who, I love the new series, but having the Doctor as seriously sexy (twice) is *really* screwing with my head!