Posts by Richard Aston
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Islander,
Nice re-frame Islander ,
I was thinking down the track that he'd been set up by a media feeding frenzy etc etc but you are pointing out Judge Harvey has publicly demonstrated moral character in the middle of a case drowning in moral ambiguity - I nice antidote to the politicians running for cover after receiving their dotcom bribes.
Yeah maybe there is renewed hope -
Hard News: The Music for Occasions, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Death Merch!
Now there is a growth trend
for you early adopters…
…tee shirts, cups, coasters,
mixtapes, cards, posters,
cookbooks & teatowels…
putting the FUN back in funerary!Not to mention the DVD sales , action figures ( of the deceased) and oh the sponsorship deals " Dieing for a Coke "
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Hard News: The Music for Occasions, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Umm … this is supposed to be a thread about music for turning 50 to, not really a funeral – more like an excuse for an epic party
Oh ....
Sorry Russell killed you off a bit soon . -
Man its going to be one long funeral so far...
They are going to be dancing in the aisles. They will be crying and laughing, shaking their bodies, praying and meditating... hey I think I can sniff that faint wiff of weed in the air...
And someone selling tee shirts by the exit.
Sounding like a really good gig , Ok who's first? -
I played this very slow mantra at a friend's committal service
Deva Premal - Gate Gate . From the Buddhist heart sutraVarious translations , the one I used was
Leaving now
Leaving now
Leaving for the other side
O what an awakening
sorry about the cheesy video -
I played Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold at a friends funeral - young mother of 4 .
200 people weeping in unison , seemed the only human response to such a death. -
Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Craig Young,
Are you volunteering Craig? -
I wonder if it is not a normal evolution that "ginger groups" kick off debate but other groups more able to "tap amenable and available expertise and counter populist conservatives" rise up to carry the social change into mainstream thinking.Looks to me like we need a new voice in this public debate somewhere between NORML and the Law Commission .
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to david westcot,
Excellent rant David , thanks
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Lilith __,
Same in Auckland when Farmers had a free trolley bus service - it was well used and frequent
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Matthew Poole,
unless we’re proposing to make public transport completely free
Now there's a thought. I read years ago ( citation needed) a Russian city did this. They were already subsidizing bus transport that charged and on analysis found the cost of process the money,tickets admin etc was so high they ditched the tickets , upped their subsidy slightly and made the bus service free.