Posts by Islander
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to Ross Mason,
I think the reply sciblogs (a site I esteem) was too polite to suggest was - nuts
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Hard News: "Because we can", in reply to Kumara Republic,
And I once again cite Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites, where he basically explains that meritocracy, done wrong, turns into a law unto itself.
Thanks Deep Red - will obtain and read that-
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Hard News: "Because we can", in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
The words on one of the wee signs in front of them said “I’m dreaming, of a Macdonalds burger”. What I saw was so many people striding past these kids (about 10 years old) and noone noticed them at all. My shopping spree consisted of donating to their dream and walking around the library
Bless Sof!
I dont believe in deities but I do believe in humane humans...I could never get over people walking over derelict human beings lying on gratings in NYC...it was like they didnt even *see* them-
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Brillant! Zany & colourful, wildly asymetrical, and with all kinds of buildings that could be - anything!
Way way better than the dour concrete monolithisation that is currently proposed & pushed for- -
Hard News: "Because we can", in reply to Russell Brown,
Certainly hope so...what is it with these billionaire creatures and their total disconnect with the rest of humanity? Money turns your brain into a sleazy self-reguarding wax?
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Glorioso!
The supermarkets I deal with (Hokitika & Oamaru) are nowhere near so well-stocked and laid out - may all the rebuilds be as good as this-
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Up Front: Submission Pun Goes Here, in reply to Emma Hart,
This one is absolutely harrowing. It won’t be the only one.
One of young women I picked tobacco with, in Mot' in the 1960s, was beaten up by her very butch partner - and much more severely beaten up her father to whom she went for help...I dont know what happened to her, but I feared for her.
While I shall rejoice when the bill becomes law - as I rejoiced when homosexuality was decriminalised and when civil unions became available- it obviously wont affect me. But I have been aware since my early teens that the majority of humans consider me and my kind abnormal at best and totally unnatural at worst...I dont self-harm or anything like that. I just make sure I dont get into conversations that are *face-to-face* about sexualities & differences. Because I know I can get very angry when the bigoted & ignorant make assumptions and/or sneer-
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
This has been such a big experience, it can seem overwhelming, blotting out anything else. But it’s not the whole world. Perhaps, letting other people in is part of letting go of these horrors.
Keep safe, and arohanui to you all.
Tautoko Lilith- me te aroha mai na- n/n/K
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Chris Waugh,
You also Chris, and so for all your whanau-
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Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Damian Christie,
Kia ora Damian – far as I know there wasnt any video done at the time (I was in USA doing a tour associated with the Mobil Pegasus prize and only(especially !)Spiral collective were in London…the only news contacts with ANZ I remember were radio feeds, with the exception of one video on the night where-ever-we-were-in-the-USA then…was a mormon state because we couldnt buy alcohol-except beer
unless it was in a brown paper bag…my mother duly obtained champagne while I was talking to someone at the BBC and immortalising myself with a stupid comment (I truly truly did think Tom Kenneally had won...))
O – there was a wonderful moment when one of the hotel staff phoned the room and said, “We have an international telegram from a mister lanngee or someone.”