Posts by Bevan Shortridge
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Hard News: The People's Poet is dead!, in reply to Rich Lock,
(could only find this on myspace, oddly).
Found it on Youtube Bad News – Warriors of Genghis Khan
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Turnbull holds Alington family papers and part of the archive is a listing for:
Papers relating to Eileen Winter Coleman
Date: 2010-2011
Ref: MS-Papers-11146-19
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Mss (photocopies), typescripts
Use/Reproduction: RESTRICTED
Part of: Alington family : Papers of Alington and Broadhead families
Format: 1 folder(s), Manuscript
Perhaps the find could go there? -
Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Russell Brown,
Her October trip was to attend a conference on corruption
The official announcement on the beehive site:
“New Zealand consistently ranks as one of the least corrupt countries in the world,” Ms Collins says.
“I look forward to speaking to the Academy about our experience in building an accountable, transparent government and how these features benefit our governance system and economy.”
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Well, at least they won't be drawing a name from a hat. Unless there's a tie? As in that Great Barrier Local Board.
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And went to watch the "This Is New Zealand" segment at nzonscreen and saw in the comments someone answered my 2010 query about the segment (the last time I watched it)!
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Rabbit ears aerials don't seem to pick up TV3 or FOUR on Freeview, unfortunately.
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As Russell quoted Joss Whedon on dancing:
"I can't do the foxtrot or the running man. But there's something about movement that feels better than anything that isn't writing."
Here he combined both, as Numfar, in the series Angel:
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Well, we'll see if this works. I discovered both of them very late.
Mink DeVille - Just Your Friends. Sublime.
The Hudson Brothers - Dolly Day
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no one will expect New Zealand to do anything in the foreseeable future
Just wondering. Is New Zealand still vying for a seat on the UN Security Council in the next while? I thought that was being discussed a few months ago? In which case staying out of things might be politic.
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Up Front: Somebody Think of the Young Adults!, in reply to Russell Brown,
They were giving the Herald on Sunday away at the Warriors game. Didn't actually read it. I suppose it's just as well the Warriors aren't being sponsored by the Sunday Star Times as that could have been just a tad awkward yesterday.