Posts by recordari
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Sacha,
So long as the link to the initial topic is a tad more tangible than "I love Liberace" I doubt anyone much minds
I love Sufjan Stevens. It's about Chicago. Sue me.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Moz,
The Front Lawn - When You Come Back Home
After the events of yesterday, that is both apposite and poignant.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Rich Lock,
like this and this.
And this. Then there's this whole Alabama Houndstooth website, including Houndstooth for dogs.
I waaaaant the Fedora. Oh, not the dog one.
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On accents, I applied for a job in Japan in a 'Bristish Teachers Only' school and had a phone interview. The owner was quite put out when he saw my New Zealand passport at the second meeting. 'I thought you were from England?' 'Well sort of. I learnt my English at the lessor known Public School called Opotiki Primary. It's quite posh, what?'
He gave me the job.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I have more loyalty for Waikato than I do to the Chiefs. Went to the Blues game Saturday, which wasn’t great due to bloody rain and a bloody pedantic ref.
Strangely I mostly support the Hurricanes. Only lived in Wellington for a year, but find myself more in tune with their team than Auckland.
Whoops, better not get all rugby on it, someone might hear.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Rich Lock,
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Was that because you bought them all, or is Danielle saving herself from having to front. ;-)
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My answer to the question has always been 'Opotiki', even though I left when I was 6. Much of the younger years were in Whakatane, then Auckland, Wellington, Japan, and now Auckland again for the last 20 years. I still can't find the resonance or internal will to say 'I'm from Auckland'. It's not that I don't like it here, as otherwise we'd live somewhere else, but as has been mentioned up thread, my spiritual home still seems to be elsewhere, and mostly on the East Cape where my grandparents are resting in the Urupa on a cliff top above the pacific.
(and have not only family history but also “dead in the ground” and knowledge of most things around, whether they be bush, birds, fungi or sea-sound.)
That says it better than I could.
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This thread is screaming for some Chaka, no?
Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in Chicago's rough Southside projects...
HT to GeorgeFM this afternoon for reminding me how much I love this song.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I reckon David Shearer could be the man to watch. Needs a little media training maybe, calling Brian Edwards?.
Said this before, but if they have a clever strategy behind all this ineffectualness, he is it. No point rolling out your best shot as canon fodder.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I’ve just designed and built a solar hot water system for $50 :-D
Patent it. No don't, please. Share it indiscriminately for the betterment of humankind, and I want one.