Posts by Russell Brown
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Russell, do you still have any originals of the photos from Planet?
No, but you've got me going now.
It would be nice to be able to present not just the photos but some of the pages, including the ads.
As of now, I have no idea what still lives in digital or photographic form, but there are certainly copies of the magazine. I'll talk to Grant Fell, Gideon Keith and Marcus Ringrose. At least one of them must have original work and/or page files.
Thanks. It's now officially now a project.
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Or we could step to one side..
Ha. Good luck with that.
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First review of the book itself, rather than just the people involved, at the Guardian.
Although I wonder if it's more personal than it seems. Lawson is a colleague of Myerson's and had already conducted a sympathetic interview on Radio 4.
There's some interesting discussion of the review further down the MumsNet thread.
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BTW, I watched the new 90-min BBC documentary about Rough Trade, Do It Yourself , last night and can heartily recommend it to anyone with means of acquiring it.
It goes right through from the opening of the shop to the revived Rough Trade's success with Duffy. It's a story of lessons learned, and Geoff Travis doesn't come out unscathed, but it also records the various cultural explosions that his company helped set off.
I worked the odd casual day at Rough Trade and wrote for its in-house mag, The Catalogue for two or three years. The editor was Richard Boon, the first manager of the Buzzcocks, who's in the doco. He looks just the same.
Also, it's quite nice to see a modern music business story that doesn't refer to the internet, MP3s or piracy ...
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Matthew Holloway did the right thing and withdrew what he's said about "flipping burgers".
But as I said, I don't think Bic thanked Campbell for the mention, if only because of the way it exposed her to a lot of vitriol from the dullards on the Herald's Your Views (I'm sure you can imagine the tone). Other dullards wrote letters to the Listener.
Campbell was mixing one role (RIANZ CEO and submitter) with another (artist manager). She hadn't asked to be involved in the issue at all, and I didn't envy her.
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Our US-based server died. Totally smoove work by Karl from CactusLab to have things back up so quickly on a new box.
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Emma, lol classic. I guess Wikipedia's got a problem with people using it for satire, though?
It's a terrible idea to use Wikipedia for satire. On top of all the other filters you need to run to assess an article, asking people to spot and parse irony is just going to end in tears.
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Wikipedia now says you were born in Lower Hutt.
The stub about me does, but I'm still claimed as one of Timaru's own in the Timaru article. I get fidgety about something that might have been a joke by one of my friends standing as fact. (Although it's cool to be sharing the journalism alumni category with Allen Curnow.)
I mentioned it to one of the local Wikipedians but didn't hear back. I suppose I could remove it myself, but it seems better that someone else should do it.
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In the instance of agriculture, yes. From no agricultural system, to having one is probably the greatest leap humankind has made technologically.
Certainly, not least in that it freed up time for people to specialise in things other than getting food. Which, of course, led to more new technologies.
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Kapisi an atheist, dont think that can be called irrelevant.
It's a part of that family's identity, really. The Urales were among the 5% of Samoans who didn't go to church in the 1970s.
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