Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: CWC 2015: Contains graphic horror, in reply to Daniel Sloan,
Yes, to a certain extent I think we forget how lucky we are. The end-of-year Northern Hemisphere All Black tours are always a mixed blessing because the quality of the rugby broadcasts and camera locations are appalling when compared to local coverage. I guess having live sport 24 hours a day means we get plenty of practice at filming it and producing a decent package.
Yes. We have production teams who understand rugby coverage and who are very skilled at what they do. I think it was last year that the All Blacks played in Argentina and the game was covered by a crew that clearly had no idea. It was quite a lesson in how much we rely on excellent replay coverage, for example.
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Oh, and here’s this year’s site map.
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Hmmm.
rayan lee is banned and I will clearly have to keep an eye out for similar live spammers.
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The Herald has picked up on the story, quoting me.
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Hard News: CWC 2015: Contains graphic horror, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Has PA had an upgrade so just a web address suffices now?
It has long been thus ...
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Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 2…, in reply to David Haywood,
David, can you please tell Miss Spong that neither I nor any member of my family will open the door to her, and that she must surrender any thought of an affectionate relationship between her and myself. Also, that the cats she has disembowelled and affixed to lamp-posts in our street in fact belong to various of our neighbours, who are understandably upset.
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Hard News: Stella and the Fun Palaces, in reply to Emma Hart,
This is the best. You made a difference to someone, and that person is passing on that difference to other people, and lo, the world is a slightly better place.
And it's notable that the professionals did get it and wanted to know, as opposed to the angry Guardian commenters who so royally missed the point.
I have been trying to work out how to get (middle-aged, male) consultants to speak to me, the patient, rather than talk past me to my (male) support person. It’s not easy. It should be.
Show them Stella's blog posts?
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Hard News: Stella and the Fun Palaces, in reply to Stella Duffy,
I'm in no position to organise anything because I seem to be organising every bloody thing at the moment and I'm losing track (to the point where I only saved a terrible event scheduling typo just in time for print last night) but Public Address is always at the disposal of people doing good things.
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And this just in on Stella's blog:
Just before Christmas I saw my consultant (ie, my consultant, the one who’d done my surgery a year ago, the one who’s always been lovely, not the two I’d seen last year, both young, both of whom prompted the first RR piece – and also not, shouty Guardian commentators, my cancer surgeon. They do different jobs, both brilliantly) – so, I saw my plastic surgery/reconstruction consultant …
And he said he’d read the Guardian piece and it made him think differently about how he spoke to women in my position. Unlike many of the shouty commentators, he totally understood I was talking about how the reconstruction feels physically (not emotionally) and he said it changed how he speaks to women about their upcoming surgeries. That he truly hadn’t ‘clicked’ (his term) before, and that my piece had helped him explain what was coming better. And he thanked me. And I wanted to cry because he’s lovely and really good at his job and if even he hadn’t thought to explain it was going to physically feel different, then probably none of them do*. So that’s a good thing. Very.
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Hard News: Stella and the Fun Palaces, in reply to TracyMac,
Love Stella’s writing – Saz Martín is very relatable, even when she’s being a complete numpty – but gutted I missed the Guardian piece! I’ve only been reading the paper nearly daily for a decade… Will rectify that.
I've linked to the original blog post in the text, but the Guardian version is here. I still don't get how so many clowns could miss what she was saying.
As for coming out in the mid-80s, and the more earnest elements of The Sisterhood, oh yes. It went both ways – I got told more than once I was too “male-identified”. I spent many years audaciously taking my bi gfs to the lesbian ball before deciding life is too short for that shit.
I wound up knowing quite a few New Zealand lesbians in London, and it often seemed to me that they relished having come somewhere they could just be themselves.
Glad to hear Stella is dealing to the health issues as to everything else. Great stuff.
It is.
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