Posts by Danielle
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OnPoint: Pants != Journalism, in reply to Tom Beard,
What, no clip?
If the judge also drives an ice-cream van, he is automatically my favourite judge of all time.
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
history of baseball
I actually did some research on the history of baseball during my aborted US PhD in history. It's a great window into early twentieth century urbanisation and the development of mass leisure (see also: amusement parks; movies; to a lesser extent department stores).
(Anecdotally, undergraduate degrees (at least in the arts) may be less difficult than ours, but the jump to postgrad work is quite a large one. A graduate programme in history at even a crap university is pretty challenging with a high workload - way more so than my Auckland MA was, for example.)
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Endless queuing to get on Auckland buses probably took actual days of my life. And in my teens and twenties! The prime of my youth, wasted!
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"Workshop demonstrations and lectures on crafts, self-sufficiency, healing, & alternative life styles". Take THAT, Big Day Out, you dilettantes.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Jolisa,
Are we not men?
That is exactly how I announced the news to my husband. He responded "We are (going to) Devo!"
Simple Minds makes me think of Judd Nelson's capacious nostrils, for which we can blame John Hughes. (I have never heard the early stuff.)
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Also: bugger it, we're going to see Devo, winery or not. Our party may or may not include a baby in a backpack, wearing earmuffs.
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There’s also a surprising amount of baking.
Whether that's a euphemism or not, in NZ one should never be surprised by the amount of baking.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Jolisa,
That is neat! I have just spent a few minutes waffling around with it (although out here in virtual-Tasmania our options are pretty limited anyway).
ETA And by pretty limited I mean one primary school (luckily it's a good one), and it looks like only two non-religious high schools? One of which is single sex, which I don't really believe in...
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
You now have me thinking of (in)appropriate media-metaphors. "My vagina will be the Charo on the Love Boat of Media3 guest appearances!"
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Hilary Stace,
media expertise or glamour
Emma is the one with both of those, right? I'm currently wearing sheepskin slippers while fending off baby-puke, and I only have really well thought-out opinions on the construction of gender in, uh, Millionaire Matchmaker.