Posts by Patrick Xavier
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Hard News: Nothing important, just some tunes, in reply to
Not postponed; redundant.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?,
More apposite than I recalled. Thanks Russell.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?,
Is it time to close this awful week with a reprise of Russell's introduction to us of Mavis Staples' "You are not alone"? Feels like it might be as apposite as it was then. Can't find the link. But can remember the chorus.
Open up this is a raid
I wanna get it through to you
You are not alone.Good night guys, and thanks.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?,
Hope nobody minds me crunching some numbers – it is what I do.
Hell, no; that's completely awesome. Thanks.
That, my friend, is lovely.
+1. And not expected. So better still.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?,
What can we do to make sure that the media gives absolutely no space or credibility to this idiot, whose previous tendency for post-quake self-aggrandisement in NZ is undermined by this comprehensive debunking?
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Hmmm.
Worker sacked for race-based Hobbit casting
Updated at 4:07 pm todayA casting assistant from The Hobbit has been sacked for applying race-based critieria while casting extras.
A spokesperson for director Sir Peter Jackson's WingNut Films, which is producing the film, says the only criteria they have for casting hobbits is based on age and height.
However, they say the casting assistant, employed by WingNut as a contractor, applied his own criteria which was that people had to have a pale complexion.
The spokesperson says that is unacceptable and they have dismissed the casting assistant.
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Busytown: A Classical Education: Chapter…,
My heart gives a little flutter every time I see there is a new report from Busytown. I defer reading to the end of the day, and am never disappointed. And again.
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Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,
It's the sort of thing he collects.
What, ungrammatical T-shirts?
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Hard News: Every scene needs its stars,
No consideration of the merits of Cee-Lo's ditty is complete without Whitney Avalon's line-by-line rejoinder.
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Given the "let's rise above it" responses expected of non-children, I thought this was telling.