Posts by Jackie Clark
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A dead baby at the end of it, despite some talented caring people
I am so, so sorry to hear that, pkiwi. My sincerest condolences to you and yours. What a shit. And how right you are. There is an intense fragility around the birthing process.
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I have nothing to add to the coffee debate - not a hot drink drinker - I much prefer iced chocolate, and I'm becoming a bit of a connisseur. The chocolate frappacino from Starbucks is okay, but can anyone tell me where they do a really good one? And as for cafe nostalgia - DKD wasn't my scene but I went there all the time with friends, largely for the cake. Domino's was about the tofuburgers with peanut sauce, and beansprouts. There was a kebab caravan in Aotea Square that you wouldn't touch with a barge pole. There are two places I miss most though. One was called the Hut ( I think). It was on Victoria St, up the Albert Park end, and the guy there sold yoghurt cones. The other is the Open Late Cafe. It's a real crime that place shut down, but then with the closing of Peppermint Park and other such wonderful late night Ponsonby Rd haunts, I guess it's relevance diminished as the years went by. Oh, how I yearn for the 80's. (And I'm in good company, cos going by the episode tonight, so does Jaquie Brown.)
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Deborah, thanks so much for that.
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Happy Birthday, Baby Bob. Big ups to your brave and clever mummy, and your clever and funny daddy for producing such a beautiful little boy. May you grow up to be as clever and brave, and may your love of country music diminish as time passes.
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Yeah! I found myself laughing in the right places, and enjoying it when I wasn't laughing.
I thought it was brilliant. Lots of LOL moments for me.
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I'm actually trying to vote national but it's bloody hard.. I want fast and cheap broadband yesterday.
Oh, Jeremy, you're one of those voters.
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Jackie -- The Bridge can't be in NZ outside of a festival or academic context. I imagine it's for the obvious reasons but I can't seem to find any decisions on the Chief Censor's website. It is on DVD in Australia and Google video (of course)
Thanks for that, David. I just watched it online. Interesting that there is no suicide barrier on that bridge. I read the original article "Jumpers" in the New Yorker that the film was kind of based on, and San Franciscans logic seems to be that it would spoil the aesthetic beauty of the bridge and that people would find somewhere else to jump from. I don't think anybody's jumped from our Harbour Bridge for years, and certainly not Grafton Bridge after they put the barriers up. I wonder why, with about two dozen people a year choosing the Golden Gate bridge as a way to end their lives, the authorities still won't do anything. There was research quoted in the article, also, that revealed that of the people who were prevented from killing themselves, 94% were still alive quite a number of years later. It was a film that brought up some interesting questions, certainly.
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I love the zoo - and in my vast experience of small people, you may not think they've taken anything in, but you'd be surprised what takes a wee one's fancy. I'm with your niece. I could watch the sea lions all day. I was a bit worried that they'd be bored shitless going back and forth, but I was lucky enough to see them interact with their keepers in the early morning, and they're obviously kept interested.
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Beautiful, Che. Whenever we let words go into the world, we never know where they will land, or what difference they will make. But there is nothing surer than that they will always land where they are needed the most.
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I don't know if it's just me but it seems as if the diversity of voices on PA System is shrinking - or solidifying - a little more day by day.
You don't think that it could be as simple, Michael, as with all forums, of reasonably likeminded people having discussions on which there is a common meeting of the minds at some points along the way? And there is more agreement on some issues than others. For example, I am a rabid Helen Clark supporter, but that doesn't mean that I don't agree with Craig on quite a number of things. There are posters here with whom I have a lot in common, in terms of my life, and others with whom it would seem there is no commonality, and yet I can still find common ground with some of our beliefs and core values. Otherwise I wouldn't be here. Nor, I suspect, would you.