Posts by philipmatthews
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Predictably spun out on the ChemtrailsNorthNZ blog (Google it, I shan't link) as further evidence of the HAARP earthquake conspiracy.
Could possibly be the maddest thing ever on the internet. Which is saying something. I'm also willing to put down $100 here and now that says the next issue of Jon Eisen's Uncensored has a big spread on what "really" caused the Canterbury quake ...
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Just walked through the Square where TVNZ is setting up for tomorrow's live Breakfast with Paul Henry, Pippa Wetzell and the Feelers ...
Haven't we suffered enough?
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I'd like to hear from/about centres besides Auckland and Chch. Is there a mayoral race of any kind in -- for example -- Wellington, Dunedin, Hamilton, Tauranga ... ?
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Old stone churches, sure, but it seems to me that hairdressers have been hit disproportionately hard. Not sure what that says -- if anything -- about the quake as an act of God.
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Umm... how young? Does anyone know how old he was 26 years ago? I'm getting curious as to how old you have to be to get a lenient judgement.
Campbell Live said he was 26 years old when he did it. Can't see the age in any print stories, though. He was much more mature for the Tongan psychiatrist incident.
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@ Philip M. I was pleased to see your Press feature on the Chch earthquake reprinted as a full-page feature in the Waikato Times.
Cheers Geoff. And it led to this juxtaposition on Stephen Stratford's blog, where I found myself linked to an endorsement of John Key ... But Stratford is right: few other NZ PMs could have told that story without making it sound like something their spin doctors dreamt up.
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David Garrett in ... Day of the Jackass.
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Patrick Evans at his best was a bloody good night out too- and a rollicking funny lecturer. I loved that course!
And his new novel, Gifted -- about Frame and Sargeson -- is a great read too.
And this gives me another chance to say that everyone interested in Fairburn, Curnow and the whole cultural nationalism project should read Francis Pound's elegant, compelling The Invention of New Zealand. A real masterpiece, that.
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I have some reservations about Fairburn as a person too. But he gave us one of our favourite family jokes: “The squalid tea of Mercer is not strained.”
He also came up with the famous derision of McCahon's paintings as "graffiti on the walls of some celestial lavatory".