Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Well, they don't seems to be on the Aussie blacklist...
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I hazily recall being told that Bret and the Ukulele orchestra did Short People at an event in Civic Square and the audience didn't quite know what to make of it.
Possilby faux-ironic pose issues have queered the pitch for actual irony as well as for sincerity. [short people != gingas]
Or I'm speculating about rumours.
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I also feel compelled to suggest statue vs art.
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red-headed Jews
I'm trying to remember if I once read that was actually something of a stereotype in olde Britain. But perhaps the 'autheticity'-seeking pillock the passage was about wore the red wig because the thought Shylock was a clown, rather than because of anything to do with jewishness.
And now I remember how depressing it was researching Shylock.
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Journos are also letting Key and others give examples of $50k salaries as if that is "average"
Not just that, his opener example as a young couple, both on $50k.
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And meanwhile (literally meanwhile, while all the political reporters were locked away with the budget) the human rights commission was calling for the welfare bill to be rewritten
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There's a Neil Gaiman short story invovling a society of extreme gastronomes (Sunbird) that I think mentions Kakapo in passing. I forget if there is a preparation method.
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The thing that's stuck with me about the Arts Festival was the publicity: several cases of playing up what seemed most accessible and light ent about an event - without being precisely misleading* still leaving one with the wrong impression about the show. Kind of an ad-agency thing to do but surely not a long term strategy.
The Arrival. Probably should have gone to see 360. Something went tragicly wrong with Eleven and Twelve.
* except possibly re: the shiny blob scupltures outside Te Papa (which now also have experience-ruining 'Please Do Not Touch The Artwork' stickers all over them).
And I've been enjoying doing my improv lately.
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Apparently the beeb have a election barge. Armando Iannucci was tweeting at one point that its power was off, and was hence the worst place to be watching the election apart from Gordon Brown's trousers.
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Speaking (elsewhere) about Jim Anderton, here is his blog post about Peter Shirtcliffe.
In other news, Jim Anderton has a blog.