Posts by Russell Brown
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Excuse me? I've read ad nauseum that if this stadium doesn't go ahead Auckland is condemned to being a third world backwater and international laughing stock ...
Could you point me to the direct quotes for that? Or were you exaggerating a bit?
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If I could actually spell that would be good.
Don't worry. Your job is making pictures. Leave the spelling to us.
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Come on! Who was the Nat MP? When and where did he or she say this? Anyone else but you heard it? Methinks was but a figment of your overheated imagination.
Read more closely sir. That was an extract from Fran O'Sullivan's column. She knows loads of National MPs.
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and I'd respectfully suggest to our host that there's plenty of foam-flecked hysterics coming from the pro-camp.
And I think I'd be on strong ground in saying that the hysteria has overwhelmingly come from the anti-stadium lobby - so much of the language has been plain daft.
The anti-stadium rhetoric generated in that meeting yesterday just defied reason. Cancerous? Used condom? Please ...
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Speaking of Blowfish Sushi, I went to the one in West Hollywood and it was very good indeed. Those US-based sushi chefs really know how to make the stuff - much more adventurous than the standard 'sushi' we get in NZ.
Yep, I went to the San Francisco one, and it was not at all yer standard sushi house. Great cocktails, too. I'm just glad it was a freebie, because we'd have been up for a bloody big bill that night ...
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Sorry, Russell, but if we're calling 'bullshit' on the Herald, perhaps you need to look a bit closer to home at your *ahem* rather dim view of the disdain Messers Mills and Banks had for the niceties of public scrutiny and planning law where their pet projects were concerned. What's the difference?
A fair cop, to some extent Craig. But Mills' original Britomart plan was simply insane: an interest-free loan to a rather odd private developer, a council planner who led the push and then went to work for the developer, plans deliberately withheld from the minority on council, and sundry other follies. The eastern corridor plan would have wrecked an estuary and directly affected (as in, we're from the council, hand over your house) many more people than the stadium. It also had the significant problem of having no visible means of funding.
Anyway, back to stadia: the Eden Park option will also require legislating over the Resource Management Act, and it will rise to a similar height, towering over neighbourhoods of single-storey houses. It will remain a transport nightmare, with severe restrictions on the type, frequency and hours of events that can be held there. It just doesn't make sense to me, and it certainly doesn't inspire me.
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Really? I thought it kicked the sorry arse of most other travel programmes, not least because it was about something other than the sponsor.
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Or will it all just be nothing like all the other times the rumour has come around.
While getting pissed at Prego on Friday - that's where I do all my best research - I received another implicit confirmation that something's happening. I'm sticking with my date next week, but I guess Bono might surprise us. I'll ask him at the Blowfish Sushi opening on Saturday ...
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The coolest public transport in Vancouver is without a doubt the little putt putt ferries
Let's have some of that! I think the harbour is a criminally ignored means of transport in Auckland.
Interesting to note that people are now putting the debt ridden Aussie Stadium as a point of caution. Shame that Sydney has several competing major stadiums with very limited all round use as an example.
The stronger point on Stadium Australia is its location in Homebush - 15-20km from the CBD, with nothing around it. I can't believe people keep proposing North Harbour Stadium, a ground which managed to open (not fill, mind, just bother to open) more than 50% of its modest quantity of seating once in this year's provincial rugby competition.
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However, I will say one thing: is it just me, or is the (weekday) Herald single-handedly turning the whole thing into more of a shit fight than it actually needs to be?
Yes.
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