Posts by Danielle
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we don't want the average kiwi running the country we want the best and brightest
And if you earn more, you're by definition 'better', right? Oh wait...
(Lucy, that's exactly it.)
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Am I supposed to have a more eloquent reaction than a visceral 'ewwww' to this particular piece?
Because it's really not happening right now. But I'll keep you posted.
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Despotatoes/Dick Taters! Snerk!
Can we give Ian some sort of PAS trophy?
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he always needs to over-compensate for the criticism
I agree, but to be fair, there's still an awful lot of kneejerk Paul Sucks-ism out there. I can see why he would be annoyed. Those Rolling Stone interviews John did during his angry phase, plus his untimely death are really a toxic legacy for Paul in some ways. And those mullets he and Linda had through the seventies didn't help either...
But he rips apart Across The Universe and various other Lennon gems...oooh it makes me so mad.
Huh. I might dig it out and re-read it in this light. I vacillate between thinking Paul or John is the most douchey (Paul is self-conscious; John is self-indulgent), and perhaps I was in more of a Paul phase at the time.
(I only criticise because I love deeply, of course. One month and four days until the stereo and mono box sets and Beatles Rock Band, team! It will be a Nerdstravaganza at our house.)
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I'm rather more horrified by last night's food in a minute cannelloni than by all the tinned spaghetti in the world.
Dude. Have you had Watties tinned spaghetti? It is absolutely horrendous. I'm not being snobby here, either, because you can pry my Watties baked beans from my cold dead hands, but that spaghetti is like... amoebic slime or something. Shudder.
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I can't deny the work is a mighty achievement
My favourite Beatles book, hands down. Nerd alert: I have played all the songs in order while reading each entry. And that was when I had just the LPs, so it required a bit of jiggery-pokery.
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My life is better because I had a real gumbo once.
You, unlike me, have local access to Sweet Mother's Kitchen. Their gumbo is actual gumbo!
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food in a minute "cannelloni" on the telly which drove me to instant despair
I assume this is the same despair I feel when people call fish soup 'gumbo'?
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And Stella's styling him now so he's rather presentable too.
I'm thrilled someone finally got through to him on the hair dye. Jet black was not your friend, Paul.
Weirdly, I got no beef with 'Mull of Kintyre'. Even if it was number one for nine hundred years. And had bagpipes.
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Band On The Run has its own bloated glory as well.
I *love* Band on the Run. I'll happily listen to that sucker end to end.
(When he dies and everyone does the big Critical Rediscovery of Paul, I'll be over here in the Always Thought Paul Got a Bad Rap corner.)