Posts by Steve Curtis
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Slightly off track.
The appropriately named 'Your Telecom' service from Telecom has been offline for a week.
Security breaches ? -
Interesting interview in The Age earlier this year when Witi says he has been 'rewriting' his previous novels
Yet, as he has grown older, Ihimaera has become unhappy with some of his stories. The early books, he believes, were written as if he was "a possum caught in the headlights of a truck". Ihimaera suspects his readers have embraced his fiction for all the wrong reasons, because he wrote within a European framework, and did not let his culture speak for itself.
For all the wrong reasons ? I think someone has let his self importance get away with himself
Each book has required a different treatment. Tangi has been entirely rewritten and is twice the length of the original, while The Matriarch is now just a fifth of its former length. There were problems with joins and links to its sequel, The Dream Swimmer, which was republished last month. Some "anger and irritation" came withPounamu, Pounamu, a book of short stories that lacked political content. The new versions are "slightly darker and more true to the times", while Whanau II is a clearer reflection of Ihimaera's ancestry and heritage
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Cutting Edge ? More the style of a travel guide, new and improved every year
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This years plagiarism is next years ' found art'
Hes just working in the wrong genre
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A 'legal budget' not cut?
Hmmm, that might be true if it covers HR,or even cases where they have taken legal action.
He doesnt quite say there is no cuts to 'defamation' budget -
Trowenna , it seems for those who havent read the book is an aboriginal name for Tasmania.
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Yeah right , thats all we need is someone looking down their nose at the provincials.
Is someone who clearly' hasnt a clue' about how we live is going to provide advice on urban planning?This is becoming more of a farce than I ever imagined
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Took up the Challenge from Graham after his comment .."Sorry pal and with all due respect, but you you might need to get into a bigger world than the one you live in."
Why not have a look at one of the places of the 'world' I have not seen like
Ocktoberfest.
They seem to to do a mega party , and every year , not a one off.
And their iconic buildings.... tents.
But good to see mayor Banks has been giving signals that this multi million party central cum Taj Mahal will be strangled at birth -
Nice to see the 'natural' photo surrounded by teasers of stories of everyday life.
Like ..Devil in Prada, Diana Wintour turns 60
and.. Ray Martin, how he overcome poverty to become a TV star.
Must have been the sexagenerian issue -
The Sydney Opera House is not a wharf. It was a headland, which previously contained a tram barn.
But this makes my point, they started from a cultural centre, which they needed and found a suitable site.
Here we have a wharf , one of many, and the reason there is no earth shattering design is ... because well it has no real use.
We played this game about iconic architecture over the Wynyard point, actually another wharf, which the public has access to, but the ideas seem to date from the Il Duce period of Italy.
And that seems to be the 'world' some say we should belong to. No thanks -
There is no great mass of people thronging to get to the end of Queens Wharf.
It was an ill conceived idea to use the area for a party central in the first place , lets not turn a bad idea into a massive mistake by throwing more money at it.
A wharf is a wharf.
Name one other city that lets a finger wharf define who they are!