Posts by Russell Brown
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"deliberately killed" = cultural construct
I'm sorry, you've completely lost me there.
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It is interesting the different cultural constructs we have create that allow us to kill.
That's drawing a very long bow indeed. I'm not aware that it has been suggested at any time that the policeman deliberately killed Naitoko. It's not a "cultural construct", it's a completely different series of events.
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He should. Many newspapers follow that rule. Murder is a term of art. A killing or slaying is a fact.
Feel free to continue dancing on the head of your pin. A murder was committed, the police have arrested and charged a man and stated very clearly they are not looking for anyone else.
Your belief that I am somehow out of line in using the word "murder" could be easily dispelled by a visit to Google News. You'll find that everyone else is too, for fairly obvious reasons.
Bummer. Watch the clip again. Total send up. The judges knew it was coming like a bad thing.
I am well aware of the manipulative elements of the show. I've studied them quite closely. But these people aren't so clever that they could engineer the viral explosion of that first video. Boyle has been entering these contests for decades, often at the cost of her own humiliation, and she finally got her chance. There was actually something real there.
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Could you define terrorism for us, Russell? Our legislature once did but then they repealed because it would have given the term a finite meaning. I'd rather see the killing -- it isn't murder yet because no one has been convicted -- as a crime.
Let's see, Brickley: the murder was carried out in the most shocking way possible, in a full church. The suspect has a long track record of involvement with the so-called Freemen, and has previously been arrested with bomb-making equipment. And it has now been reported that he visited the woman who shot Tiller in 90s shortly before the fatal shooting. It is right-wing terrorism.
You're taking the piss, right?
No, actually.
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Seeing as we've been talking about it, here's the Media7 discussion about "Big Little City" ...
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Just saw this:
Ah, wondered if you had. I'm the one with the privilege of of second-thoughts editing. But it's coming people, it's coming ...
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True that but I get thoroughly irked by the endless need to compete on a cosmopolitan level. I was pissed of by the person who though it was smart to put a clear shot of the Gucci and LV stores in that Auckland promo thingy I saw oh YouTube.
I don't think anyone in Auckland related to that part of the ad. But it was an internal tourism ad: it was meant to impress the rest of the country ...
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Beautifully expressed, Daniel. The best of the series, I think.
For me, the feeling that the five years I was living in London was never permanent made living in London easier, and coming home easier.
As I've written before, I strongly identified with the New Zealanders before me (Fairburn in particular) who had their identity settled for them by travelling. I had to go to Europe to know I wasn't European. And from there, resolving to come home and be part of the New Zealand story was a logical progression.
I count myself lucky that I was away on my own cognisance -- there was never the lure of a prestigious, highly-paid job overseas to complicate things. I assumed, correctly, that there would be good work to do back home, but perhaps not good money to go with it.
Like Danielle, I didn't get "transplant misery", and I didn't particularly despair of New Zealand either -- and I had to sit through nearly nine years of National governments!
It helped that Auckland had become more diverse in my absence -- I feel like I'm in a city that faces the Pacific. I know where to go to get great beef noodles for 10 bucks, or to get a really classy meal for a bit more. I'm five minutes from the city and I have a beach around the corner where I can swim in summer. There's a farmer's market at the weekend, and places to go at night. And the wine is exceedingly good value.
It helped that I eventually fell into a job involving several junkets a year. I still find I need to juice up on the world.
I took my first trip back to London 10 years after I left: I dropped right back into the groove, but after a week I was feeling like I couldn't be bothered with the noise and the stress (I also felt culturally affronted by the Tate Modern). At the same time, part of me will always be a Londoner. I still follow the British newspapers online, and I torrent the TV programmes they don't show here.
Although Tom's phrasing was typically infelicitous, he did have a point. I think there's a danger of wasting time and energy fretting about whether you can do better -- which is perilously close to thinking that you are better than the place you're in. Sometimes, you need to just get on with it.
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Congratulations Paul!
And don't worry, we all have that "we're not worthy!" moment when it comes to taking the baby home.
(Deborah, I haven't forgotten about that idea for a a PAS community announcements column -- there are just a few things ahead of it in the queue, but I've commissioned the first upgrade and we're moving along.)
PS: They are little miracles. If you can't feel a sense of wonder, you're not paying attention ...
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Just kicking back and finding some video for the Great Blend.
This isn't hi-res enough for the big screen, but it's quite wonderful ...
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