Posts by Andre Alessi
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to James Butler,
Replying to self: Gah, how could I have missed that I was quoting from a chapter which is almost called “The Manatee on Sun Street”?
Referencing Gene Wolfe? +1 beers for that man there.
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"Mary Sue the Sexual Robot tenderly stroked the cracked columns of the Cathedral's inner chamber..."
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Islander,
The ref knelt by the sick manatee, blowing his pink whistle...
I smell a Nobel Prize! Or possibly the perfume of the manatee's tears.
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OK, having just tried out Google Star Map-it's my favourite thing I have discovered today! I particularly like "Night Mode".
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Then in the distance, a pale bulk lolled...
"...like a cat on the Internet."
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Sayana,
Perhaps alternate-Christchurch has developed/is developing the characteristics of the anatomy of a giant human body laid out lengthwise (like in Steph Swainton's Castle books), hence the "red zone" and requirement for the Holy Winky to be returned to its rightful place.
Banks Penninsula could be, well...
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Hard News: Meanwhile in Epsom ..., in reply to Lucy Stewart,
The biosecurity people might be a bit unhappy about that. Best stick to were-taniwha, were-Haast’s-eagles, that sort of thing.
Were-tuataras! This plan has possibilities.
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Hard News: Meanwhile in Epsom ..., in reply to recordari,
Yeah, that and passing the reptilian shape shifter test.
I don't know, I'd quite like a few werecrocodiles in parliament to advocate for my opinions(and possibly eat the faces off of opposition MPs.)
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Legal Beagle: Asking the next question, in reply to Sacha,
You can imagine some potential for surprise when the latter turned out to mean “flogs your land”.
I wonder how long it'll be before Dr Brash demands Maori thank Tau Iwi for introducing them to lawyers and lawyering. (No offense intended to present company, naturally.)
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Hard News: Meanwhile in Epsom ..., in reply to Craig Young,
Epsom is an urban liberal seat and I wonder, is Banks an appropriate candidate for it?
Hide wasn't exactly a liberal candidate either. He was a populist, which runs counter to the idea that Epsom is indeed "liberal". It's demographically all over the place-old money, new money, middle class recent immigrants (both national and international) and their 1st generation children, even a few apartment blocks with single twentysomethings. A left wing candidate hasn't scored more than 17% in 2005 (Stuart Nash; Kate Sutton scored 13.5% in 2008.)
I suspect that the reason right wing candidates do so well in the electorate is the diverse demographics-ACT and National only need to target the people that are likely to vote, and can safely ignore the rest, even if "the rest" is a theoretical majority.