Posts by Geoff Lealand
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I am a recent blog convert but it has been because of PA rather than a wider investigation of the blogsphere. The discussions here (and I mean all of you) provide a much-needed alternative to the shortcomings of mainstream media--most especially the NZH.
I was involved in an on-line survey of NZ journos last year (eventually published in the Pacific Journalism Review) and made much of one particular response to our question about use of new technology in the workplace viz "What the fuck has changing technology have to do with the news!!" In fact, it was the original title of a paper I did to the Jeanz conference in Wellington, until they persuaded me to swap if for something 'less contentious'. But it may well some up the Ralston response to seismic changes in news gathering and distribution.
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It was not so much her dangly bits that were so offensive, but her politics--which have become more overt in recent months.
You do wish folk like her would go away forever. Dare I whisper the name again of Duncan Fallowell but there is a review by Simon Carr of his 'Going As Far As I Can', in the latest New Statesman (10 March)
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Interesting conversations going on here but sometimes it feels a bit like being in a room, where everyone is engrossed in different conversations...
The mentions of the Yates garden book reminds me of an odd little book I own--"Adam the Gardener: New Zealand edition" (n.d.), with strip drawings of a rustic type pruning and sowing and planting. It appears to be a local adaptation of a UK season-by-season guide, originally published by the London Sunday Express. I am sure there is an interest group in old gardening books but they sure are useful for info on older species, such as quince and black currants.
There is old section of the New Zealand Herald, used as a bookmark, which dates "Adam" around 1939/1940.
From the crisp-dry Waikato, where evenings promise rain which never arrives.
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Well, almost ..!
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Hi Geoff - to make the above into quotes just copy and paste the line under 'Quote' to the left of the 'Post a reply' window. delete the word 'text' and copy in the paragraph you are referring to.
Many thanks, Bob. Will see if this works.
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I did read somewhere of a proposal to make soccer goals wider as the size of them was set in the c19th, when goalies were smaller. Now. with hulking big blokes, the idea is to make them do more work in defence.
Andrew--I was involved with the Wgtn Film Soc (but not as an editor) and did go to Massey (but to do a Diploma of Horticulture)--but that was another life, another time. -
Since we're on it Geoff, I remember when you were Sequence editor (that bigger format sure made the bound copies look weird)......
Andrew: you may be confusing me with someone else as I don't remember doing this. I was arts editor for the UoC student newspaper for a year or two (that was a laugh) and have edited an academic journal or three and put together a newsletter called 'Trailers' for 10+ years, but 'Sequence' doesn't ring any bells..PS This is an awful admission but I haven't quite mastered the reply process for this blog. Any advice?
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(apologies for the private-type message) Greetings, Richard. Hope you are doing well in the world. I see your mother sometimes, most recently at the Food writer's awards.
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On the Auckland airport thing, is there something in people thinking it is OK to sell off assets to Canada but not Dubai?
And on English football. I really can't get interested in it, even though I tried when we were living in Cardiff in 2004. It was interesting how they banned beer sales inside the Millennium Stadium for football but not for rugby. Instead, when a big football match was on (the FA Cup, for example), they turned the whole city centre in a beer farm, with beer stalls on every corner and police all over the place. It sort gave fuel to my belief that a drunken state was necessary for football, to fill in the hours whilst the teams kicked a ball around, to maybe end in a scoreless draw
And why are so many football teams named after lunch bars eg West Ham?There does seem to be a bit of cultural cringe here, reflected in a yearning for the Old Country and its curious pastimes--as well as a cultural distinction from those who believe that rugby is The Beautiful Game.
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Dear oh dear--that Craig fellow sure takes things personally. Be assured that I don't 'teach religion' at the University of Waikato--I leave my religion (or lack of) at the door.
The 'ilk' was a reference to politicians and other person of power.