Posts by philipmatthews
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Sure, as long as Wittgenstein started the conversation with "So, what's it like to be ridden hard in a harness"
Actually, speaking of rugby intellectuals -- this whole thing started with Chris Laidlaw, who, as Rosemary McLeod says in this column, has got off scot free:
Haden's nonsense is one thing. But would you be painfully PC if you flinched at this material coming from a noted liberal who is incidentally a Pakeha former halfback? If I were brown, I sure think I would.
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Do you think that the Close Up producers might actually have an elaborate, straight-faced, subversive sense of humour? By the time I got to the end of the second of those Close-Up "hug a ginga" stories, I started to wonder if this was really an Eating Media Lunch or Brass Eye-type parody of serious current affairs.
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That Calvin cartoon reminds me of a picture researcher on a magazine I used to work for, who asked in all seriousness if a Renaissance painting she was sourcing for us was supposed to be in colour or black-and-white.
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Well, so far the first ten minutes if "Cheers for fifty years" is complete rubbish. Thanks TVNZ for making a show that is the equivalent of offering some chips and a litre of orange juice at someones fiftieth anniversary on the job.
Running the long history of public broadcasting through a gameshow format hosted by Jason Gunn -- kind of says it all. Typical question: "What planet was Mork from?" Jesus wept.
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Boarder Patrol
If I had been quicker off the mark, I would have asked if this was the sequel to Flatmates.
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I later told him about my concerns about him watching Coronation Street.
What would these "concerns" be? Just wondering.
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Not that anyone who doesn't watch it is likely to believe me, but Coronation Street is a very, very good show. The acting is 95% excellent
The other 5 per cent being the bloke who plays Dev.
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Philip,
Beat Rythm Fashion's Turn of the Century just fired up some synapses that have lain dormant for 30 years. :)Thanks. It's such a great track. Haunting, even. Kind of like the best Faith-era Cure song the Faith-era Cure never wrote. But as Nick Bollinger says in that Listener review, weirder and more interesting than that too.
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A fairly basic review of the Kobo from Australia, where it was launched a week earlier by Borders rather than Whitcoulls (same owners), is here.
The price difference: A$199 or NZ$295.
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Those interested in reading e-books -- and I don't include myself in that category yet -- should check out this local e-book store, mebooks, which is really an extension of Victoria University's Electronic Text Centre. Currently, it is about out-of-copyright titles for free -- Man Alone and original Katherine Mansfield titles included -- but it seems to be set up with the potential for actual sales of newer books. One to bookmark.