Posts by Joe Wylie
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Thank you very much for the heads up Sofie.
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I quite like the fact that it's a Treaty-savvy reality show and does actually seem to explore ideas of cultural belonging.
Do they co-operate to survive, rather than go for the assholes-in-paradise Survivor model? Cos if they do, it sounds just a bit subversive. While the market may dictate the success or failure of the likes of Survivor, it's hard to escape the impression that such shows are hyped because they reflect someone's cynically ideological contempt for their intended audience.
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And I'd put money on the fact that the wise heads who declared that vampires were the next thing weren't exercising some brilliant personal insight. They read it on the internet.
Oh noes - just when the zeitgeist was all but exorcised, along comes the internet.
That evil man Peter Jackson's been actively engaging with the organised fan base for years. While it's an approach that probably generates its own distortions, it's vastly more creative and genuine than invoking the dubious oracle of the market. -
understanding lies in the inferential interstices...
... a personal space of dappled meaning...Aah. Nice. Apropos of that, and without meaning to derail from any possibly fruitful Shihad metaphors:
Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise Him.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1877 -
unduly fascinated by Chris' pompadour...
Definitely real, unlike Countdown frontman Molly Meldrum's prosthetic.
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this webcomic
Now that's a find. Thank you very much.
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I'm sorry that I picked on you Giovanni, I set you up to make a point.
Sure you did - the point being that for you, to "look to Australia for ideas" from its "agressively nationalistic agenda" means aping Pauline Hanson, right down to the faux-prophetic nationalist cod-mysticism. Immigration built, and continues to build, this country, despite the best efforts of the little Canutes. Khrist you can be vile when the spirit moves you.
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I'd always thought a Basso Profundo was a particularly deep thinking latin perch - guess I was just piscine in the wind...
Haw! Nice to see you still on deck and seducing the innocent after all these years, Wertham. Anyway, you're an inspiration to hack one's own B. Profundo by fitting Bigmouth Billy Bass with an mp3 player loaded with a spoken-word version of Desiderata.
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Gene Autry's 1937 There's A Goldmine in the Sky.
Not that anyone ever claimed that Hoki Mai was an original tune. -
a national standard sign for use on all public beaches/estuaries of historical note
All others get this.