Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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Was perusing your lovely photo stream and wondered if Greenland hospital was actually in Greenland ?
I don't know what you could possibly mean... ;)
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Another thought on tagging. In the Herald today, Brian Rudman called for banning the sale of aerosol paint to under-18-year-olds.
That's well and good, but most of the tagging I see around is done with marker pens, not spray paint.
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On the subject of a graffiti...
1. A couple of homemade posters have been stuck up around Mt Eden Village, presumedly the work of an angry citizen (plural?) who wants a zero-tolerance policy toward taggers.
"Only an idoit [sic] would tag there [sic] own backyard," proclaims one, while the other threatens, "Taggers - we want you caught".
They seem legit, but the poster design and language is so awful that I keep thinking that maybe it's a parody of angry citizens who don't understand that the taggers they're fighting against are part of the same community they live in.
2. Friday's Herald had the alarming headline "Government to attack graffiti artists from all sides", making it sound like Annette King was about to lay the smack down on graffiti artists like Askew, Misery or Otis Frizzell. Crikey!
But upon reading the article, it became obvious that the government action was going to be towards taggers, not graffiti artists. I emailed the Herald to let them know the difference.
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I've just spent the morning watching segments of the TV show FAME on Utube.
Oh no. Now I'm going to have to go and watch them. Heeelp!
I loved the Fame movie too - especially how Leroy would parade around on rollerskates, cut-off jean shorts and a belly-button-revealing cropped T-shirt with "L E R O Y" on it and he was supposed to be playing a heterosexual hottie. But it fooled me as a child!
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Then I remembered someone who congratulated me while I undergoing professional legal studies for pronouncing women correctly
I wonder why it is that woman and women have come to be pronounced the same by so many New Zealanders.
Years ago I remember hearing some guy saying that the "wimmin" pronunciation was the politically correct way that some lesbians had made up because it didn't pronounce "men". But I'm sure that's bollocks.
The thing is, it can actually lead to ambiguity. One of my workmates once said something that sounded like this: "He's standing over there by the woman - uh, the group of woman."
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So. The Herald Building is "The Shakespeare Tavern"?
The tavern is directly across the road from the Herald building and would have offered patrons front-row seats for the commotion.
But I'm surprised that such a dramatic event happened literally on the Herald's doorstep and yet they only reported it with a three-sentence article.
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The first friend I made was a girl at the motel we were staying at, who I thought was exotically-named "Seerah" or something similar... Similar confusion resulted.
Ha! When I was 7 I saw Sooty and friends live at the Founders Theatre in Hamilton. Matthew Corbett got a volunteer up on stage, a little girl called Sarah, who he thought was the exotically named Serra.
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Something that stood out from that graffiti blog entry was this:
Graffiti is a problem because most people think it’s poor, violent, brown people trawling their streets tagging fences. ... The truth is graffiti in your neighbourhood is made by people from your neighbourhood, if there’s tagging in Epsom it’s by kids from Epsom.
It was a major revelation for me when I realised that of all the times I'd seen kids tagging around Mt Eden, it was all white kids, and ones who looked pretty well off, and yet I'd had this really dumb idea it was brown kids from South Auckland.
But when you think about it, what 12-year-old is going to travel halfway across the city to write their name on a fence. Yeah...
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But if you don't believe that it can be done, then listen to this speaker pronouncing the words 'fear', 'fair', and 'fare'.
That clip is brilliant. Even though it's just Glennis from Foxton reciting a list of words, by the time she gets to the final word, there's a certain tone to her voice, as if to say, "These crazy academics. Why are they getting me to say all these words that sound the same? Doesn't everyone talk like this?"
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It was the District Court, ow.
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What do's Philistine mean?
is country between teh westpac bank and teh gazza stripe.