Posts by Stuart Coats
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It's a bit like typifying artists as deriving there creativity from depravity.
I take much of my creativity from depravity, but deprivation also has a part to play.
This seems a good time to remind anyone in Wellington (or visitors) that it is Fringe Festival time again. A good chance to see artists strut their stuff and help them along with some of your hard-earned dosh. You may even see some depravity......
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That TO video can't be right - he didn't drop the ball!
I'll be at the Sports Cafe on Courtenay Place with the rest of the NFL tipping league that I belong to. We do our own in-house gambling (purely for entertainment purposes obviously). So if y'all get bored at Four Kings.....
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That trick he pulled with the vivd was insane, but the Cowboys star was just epic.
Who was the player that put the cellphone in the goalpost so he could phone home after he scored the touchdown? That was genius. And Chad Johnson "proposing" to one of the cheerleaders after scoring was a nice one too.
If I had more time I would find the clip of Pat Cash climbing into the crwod at Wimbledon. Or Boris Becker at 17, limbs splayed akimbo with sheer joy. Although that is getting a bit Mills and Boon-y.
I've been doing some serious youtubage for Bumble clips - tomorrow's Links on Friday on my site will be a special tribute.
Okay, so I should know, but what is your site so I can alleviate my working day tomorrow?
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'The fridge has opened'. Heh.
It's a great catch but the whole clip is worth it for bumble's commentary. "The earth shook" is another great line, as is "you've still got to get another 9 wickets."
Is that a Brett Favre Jets jersey in those hand signal photos? How very, very sad.
And I'd come onto the ground with the last two minutes of Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine. As a very law-abiding citizen the irony would be fantastic
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Cheers Emma. I never knew there was a word for it, although I know that Weird Al likes to refer to himself a a parodist; as in a parody of a human being.
Maybe I need to go to more scifi cons. Maybe they could hold a really big one in the Dunedin Stadium if it gets built...... -
@ Emma
You'll need to explain "filked" to me..... -
It's to gouge foreigners.
It worked well on the Lions tour.
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I had a grand time at the MCG. I went to watch India play the West Indies in a ODI, as I couldn't get tickets to see Australia play. The ground was a quarter full. I sat with some Indian supporters, and as the game drew to a conclusion with India well on top we congad all the way round the Great Southern Stand.
BTW every time they say "Great Southern Stand" does anyone else think of Icehouse? -
Okay, so maybe I was bit harsh. I went to the SCG last year and it was extremely good, although the catering was awful!
The Caketin is tremendous when it is full. I went a few years back for a Hurricanes-Crusaders game (back when people cared about such things) and the place was buzzing. But when you go to any stadium when it is half-full or less and you can really see the cracks. The Caketin has the advantage of location, which is why I thought the waterfront stadium would have worked in AucklandBen- I haven't been to the MCG recently but went in the mid-90's and had similar misgivings. The Southern Stand was new then and already you could feel the lack of warmth in it's concrete.
I don't think anyone was too worried about Carisbrook a few years ago when Otago/ the Highlanders were regularly filling it for games.
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Carsibrook is a shithole.
Yeah it is, but so are all stadiums. Like you LB I live in Welli and I have been to the caketin a number of times. It is also a shithole, just a well-placed one. Stadiums must have the highest depreciation rates of any buildings - give 'em a couple of years and they go to seed.