Posts by giovanni tiso
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So much to agree with there... I loved this little typo though
if recent history is anything to go buy
Very contextual!
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I do think we should reserve the right to wank on about other books other people might not have read, though - that's how I find out about what to read next.
Quite honestly, showing off the fact that I am well read* is all I've got. You can't possibly be thinking of taking it away from me.
(*) It's not even true, it's just that I have a knack of working the twelve books I've read into most conversations.
Life improved substantially for prominent author Witi Ihimaera this week.
He was made a fellow of the humanities on the day when the news broke or the one after. I felt quite sorry for him, if that makes any sense.
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Oh, I can do centuries.
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does that make someone a derailleur?
Not sure, talk later, I'm off to host The Derailey Factor.
Switching gear once again: if I started a PA book club, would anybody come?
It's a genuinely good question. I'm a monstruosly diligent person and as such I am afraid of what a new set of deadlines could do to my week. What kind of turnaround do you have in mind?
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Was it Steve Sumner the other night who described Brazil in 1982 as on another planet?
Too bad they didn't come back down to the planet where they were supposed to beat Italy with ease that fateful day in Barcelona.
Mm, but then there's a lot of people for whom rugby fans are still the guys who talk about wogs & poofters playing football.
Maybe, but in my 12 years in these parts I've encountered none of the latter and tons of the former. Perhaps it's because people naturally think I'll agree with them.
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giovanni, boredom & despair? Surely not.
The transparancy of the game, simple rules (except for off side) holds the greatest potential for a free flowing game and excibition of skill.Perhaps. But personal experience moment here: I grew up on soccer, and I love it to be sure, but in New Zealand I enjoy rugby more because the local players are just incomparably more skilled at that game. Watching the Phoenix play is intensely painful, and I say that after having gone to the whole of season one at the Cake Tin. I get a lot more enjoyment from your less than average NPC game.
But to be fair I say that in reaction to comments I heard elsewhere. What I'm not looking forward to hearing in the next eight months is the passive aggressive resentment of rugby from some NZ soccer fans - and it's started already.
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FFS, "raping the land" is a long-established phrase. Don't go being as stupid as Mr Holmes on us.
Thank you, I kept meaning to point this out - that meaning of rape is in fact the original meaning of rape. ("Rape and pillage" doesn't mean pillage and rape the women.)
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the all blacks losing hurts but football is a war in 90 minutes,
Ah, yes, 90 minutes 90 emotions. What they don't tell you is that in the A League 88 of those emotions are subtle variations on boredom and despair.
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Think again, sonny-jim.
Ohhhh... great link, Robyn, cheers. I saw Helvetica recently and was amused by the designer who said that anachronist typefaces are the first thing he and his ilk spot in period films. But it was also very interesting.
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People don't necessarily want technology to always be making the decisions about important things like music and literature.
Are you saying that manufacturing jobs and people's work in general aren't important?
(I know you're not, but it seemed an interesting slip!)