Posts by Russell Brown
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Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 20…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I suggest you stick to fiction and satire and avoid proper journalism.
Bart, it's precisely this sort of thinking that holds back NZ Inc.
Why do you hate the idea of a prosperous, efficient country kept free of terrorism by experimental cyborgs? Do you not grasp that we're on the cusp of something pretty good here?
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Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Sacha,
which of Facebook or Google must I unblock for Soundcloud embeds to actually work?
I can't see anything in the code that invokes either directly. It's just an iframe embed.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Mental age, like high and low functioning ,have eugenic undertones and are from the age of institutions. But I know what you mean.
Yes, I find the term a bit odd too. But that's how it was quoted in the story.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
I mean, if they're just removing duplicates that are also in the old Film Archive, that's not such a terrible thing.
It might be if it goes from "TVNZ Archive practice" to "Film Archive practice". Under the former, people can basically get what they want if they can pay production library fees. Under the latter, things can be very, very difficult.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Bart Janssen,
It’s either that or admit she is genuinely a more talented human being than most of us.
Yup.
One of the things I wondered about for a while was whether she’d ever been formally diagnosed as gifted. And then along came Duncan Greive’s Metro story which confirmed that, yes, she had, at the age of six (when, according to the story, she was assessed as having “a mental age of 21” on several criteria). Things kind of fall into place when you know that.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Makes me feel old that I remember Douglas Lilburn very clearly as an active, living person.
I'm delighted that you and others are sharing these memories. It humanises the man and it's lovely.
I've dwelt quite a bit in the past decade on how many of my cultural heroes -- people like Keith Sinclair -- were alive in my lifetime and I could have met them, but didn't.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
You know what’s cool? The upcoming soundtrack for The Hunger Games 3 that Lorde has curated. Just look at the track list:
Totally! I was going to to feature it but I didn’t have time to do it justice.
How many 17-year-olds do you know roll like this?
None. This stuff is almost unprecedented. And yet there are still New Zealanders convinced that she's just some management puppet.
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Access: Art and disability: a festival, in reply to Marc C,
Of course such a festival is good and deserves all kinds of support
And also the subject of the actual post. Bit rude, dude.
Crashing in like that has probably deterred people who want to talk about that topic.
I’d be happy to host a discussion about the issues you raise, but this shouldn’t be it. Cheers.
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Speaker: David Fisher: The OIA arms race, in reply to jon_knox,
My thanks to Russell, David & his employer for making this available.
Is it not a bit strange that the Herald hasn’t made the transcript available themselves on what seems an important & newsworthy matter?Tim Murphy was actually the first to retweet the link to yesterday's post, where I mentioned this speech, and I asked him if the Herald would run it, or whether I could. He kindly suggested we both could, so a shorter version may yet turn up on the Herald website.
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I’ve just posted a tidied-up version of Fish’s speech notes. go read it here.
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