Posts by martinb
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wowee.
I thought this was an article by a writer of escapism and subtle commentary through alternative culture and travel??
My two cents is that 'Sharkey' and 'JohnKey' sound similar enough for there to be an inquiry. They might be cousins.
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This story of LA with it's wan characters and sepia photos is a pale version of the vivid journies and fascinating people you used to write about.
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It's the bloggers who rip off the mainstream media to pad out their blogs that I can't stand...!!
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom vs. The Teapot Tapes, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
This public interest test is determined by column inches in the editorial of the new H ??(on a slow Monday?)
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but the man whose communications were intercepted was not yet prime minister of New Zealand.
(ps. can Kim Dotcom become Prime Minister? Or do we have a have to be born here criteria?)
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Hard News: Reviews: #NZGT and the Herald, in reply to James W,
yes, like stumping up with some funding for the central rail link and expansion, while at the same time being nothing like it....!
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Hard News: Reviews: #NZGT and the Herald, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Is the theH sponsoring an expansion of our train system then?
I'd actually be ok with that. Be the best way to re establish some cred, short of page 3 models.
Nah- broadsheets for desks, kitchen tables, armchairs, park benches, fish and chips long weekend afternoons and also multiple rereads.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10833532
How does National get to run these numbers and how does it make the lead on the Herald website??
$78 billion if everyone on the benefit at a low point in the economic cycle is always on the benefit.
Also on the trend in poll results Labour and the Greens will hold 137% of the seats in 12 years time.
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Feel like I need somewhere to mourn the tactility of broadsheet. You can no longer open the opinion pages and have two (or three) columns a cartoon and the letters sitting there. It doesn't occupy a table, you need more pages for the fish and chips, there is less information spread out in front of you.
I actually feel physically repulsed by the new edition. It's going to take a lot of adjustment or a perhaps new tablet device. It's still ok on the smart phone!
I feel like I need a place to mourn Granny. Also to add her to the Auckland Savings Bank as a long running civic institution to be proud of that we used to know.
Still I should probably give the new slag of a paper a chance. But really a city without a broadsheet?? Even Hamilton's got a broadsheet right?
I had another crack about thinking it was a copy of the Harbour News, but was set straight when I realised it didn't have that insightful editorial from Pat Booth. Decided that was a step too far.
Guess everyone here is using some nifty device though and I'm the only old fogie yearning for the paper- especially at the weekend it is going to suck.
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just posted on Jolisa's- wearing a colourful wig all day today...thinking of getting my hair dyed like it and using it as a period of...well kind of mourning- Mahi-ness until the colour come out...