Posts by Russell Brown
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Hoho. I just re-read the comments to that. One of the people debating with you writes for, er, Investigate.
http://www.amybrooke.co.nz/about.php
.On the plus side, she's energetic and enterprising. Her Sounds Symposium is a kind of Foo Camp for right-wingers.
On the minus side, I know people who've been to the symposium and pretty much had to hide from the batshit-crazy right-wingers who go there. There was a near-riot when Chris Finlayson turned up there this year and explained that the Treaty settlements process was perfectly in accordance with conservative principles of property rights and due process.
By the time a group of them insisted on dancing around a bonfire singing 'Land of Hope and Glory', my contact started to feel seriously weirded out.
Also, Brooke's absurd whingeing in that that thread (how dare those bullying liberals intrude with their factual facty things!) is a textbook example of right-wing victim culture. And no sensible person likes that.
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Awright, how'd you get a link that takes us straight there? I have tired of trying.
Just search for the address and click the Street View option. If it doesn't display the option, there's no view.
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Chilka Street did not take well to photography.
That would be the small nuclear device that detonated there earlier this year.
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My daughter and I should be in it - we were at the playground in Chilka street when they came through, I'll have to check it out.
Chilka St is definitely there. Where's the playground?
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When did Google take these images, how does that work?
I recall the news that they were starting on it, but I'm damned if I can recall when. Basically, they have to drive down every street in a camera-mounted vehicle.
A Christchurch blogger photographed the Google car in January.
I've corrected the original wording of the post -- that car really got around. Winton, even!
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I'm a little disappointed, they don't go past my place, they veer off down Glasgow Street towards the uni. Poo.
They wimped out on my friends' steep-assed street in Wellington too.
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Incorrect. They won the award in 1987 and Stunt Clown came out in '88.
Duh. Of course. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I typed that.
Either way, a superb band. Whatever happened to original backing singer Rupert E Taylor, by the way ?
He was invited -- but there were ... differences. Which is a shame.
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That, and how I had to hive off to the spare room to watch it on the old telly, because if I tried watching it in the lounge my Dad would wander through singing the theme song to the old Robin Hood series:
Trivia alert!
The Adventures of Robin Hood was the first programme to screen on New Zealand television, on June 1, 1960.
It'll come up in a pub quiz one day ...
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@Dyan:
What Shaun said.
It is revoltingly tacky to use what is probably the finest speech made by a New Zealander - one that resonated around the world, making NZ and its inhabitants seem brilliant and rather heroic by association - to promote something that is the ugliest and most damaging facet of NZ society - the corporate muscle behind the booze culture.
And yet ... Margaret Pope, who wrote the speech (but not, obviously, its brilliant extemporising), was there on the night it was delivered, and subsequently lived with David Lange till he died, was totally okay with it, and thought that Lange would have been too.
So it's not simple. Which is why I thought it was worth discussing.
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Nice. What comes through here is your enduring respect for and admiration of your partner. It is a very good basis for enduring love.
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