Posts by Simon Grigg
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to JacksonP,
Happy New Year everyone.
Happy NY Jackson. It's been a pretty mixed year all round I think, but your photo blog has been a highlight. Thank you.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Russell Brown,
Same concept, different locale
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I love this guy. Only 17 when he made the above record. And 16 when he put this down:
I've liked too many records this year to count or remember then all, but I blogged a few that matter to me here.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Islander,
I agree, but it's wonderful to have 20+ versions to chose from. And the the room is incredible.
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The fabulous Oyster Bar. Grand Central NYC
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Russell Brown,
Thoughtlessly rather than maliciously so, as per the Atlantic column that Gio mentioned and which Toby Manhire covered here.
Let's call it something akin to casual racism borne of perhaps understandable ignorance* given the way the western media and entertainment industries often plays the non-Western stories, rather than anything malicious.
*and I'm not accusing Damian, who has been a good mate for well over a decade (thus I'm reasonably able to judge), of either, of course. Just to be clear.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Damian Christie,
I didn't see too many people arguing whether "cafe", "public square" or "salon" was an appropriate metaphor for online discussion when I was in Afghanistan.
As someone who has lived for an extended period in a poor country that could reasonably be called third world - at least in the rural bits (Indonesia) - I can say that you do find people discussing trivia endlessly, and in extreme detail, often circuitously and frustratingly.
The minutiae of daily life is examined and tossed around in village gathering places sometimes without obvious resolution, and includes questions every bit as slight as the above question on metaphors.
Or, in 2011, just as a often, in places like this - online forums.
At best I find the #whitewhine and #firstworldproblems tags arrogant - the rest if the world seen through a Discovery Channel or tourist experience filter, or at worst b̶o̶r̶d̶e̶r̶l̶i̶n̶e̶ racist.
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Mum, circa 1934.
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And one more, taken by Dad in the mid to late 1960s. I don't need to tell anyone where I guess.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Possibly the only one of that model to make it to NZ.
It was sold to a guy my parents knew vaguely, and it was still going strong in the late 1970s when we last heard of it (on Herald Island).
An eBay postcard here - Going Places with the YOUNG IN HEART.
Dad two toned it in the early 1960s so that image is fairly close to the way it looked when sold.
We also had a '52 Buick Sedan but that was left behind in Singapore. It was a beast I'm told.
