Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
a three page conversation about correct dishwashing technique
dishcussion, surely?
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
And then I could teach the world to sing,
in perfect harmony.I am enjoying the Choir currently on UKTV
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Russell Brown,
That’s a very successful magazine story.
And also nice to see one Fiona Rae, TV reviewer of The Listener, being quoted in TV ads for the Sherlock DVD / BluRay release.
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Centaur -right politics...
It’s pretty hard to trot on two legs, innit?
I was always under the impression that English was the horse's arse end while show pony John fronted as the mane man - as in trots key (careful with that icepick Eugene...)
L for male?
Re mansplaining, I find it odd that it’s got nothing to do with being in mantrol.
but everything to do with Man Troll...
(and yer still unlikely to get an abridged version)never give up the honeypot...
I do, on the other hand, have a problem with them holding the rights over the works of AA Milne for longer than absolutely necessary.
Maybe they'd be in deep Pooh without it...
They haven't had much in the way of their own properties for a while and have to share the profits on Pixar and Marvel which seem to be their big earners....Fanfare for the Commer Van...
what, no rooters for the Ford Transit van
especially the Mark 1, preferably matt black
and Rip It Up had a lovely beige one...
(which could be lost for hours at a time
if its parking place had not been divulged!)Shell be rite...
I’m talking eggs, dammit, eggs!
how did that old pick up line go?
"how do you like your eggs in the morning?"
to which the best reply was
"unfertilised..."Privilege...
I always liked those shoes with the curled over loop at the toe, that you could hang onto when squatting at the privy ledge... -
Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to recordari,
Look, we’ve got an inferiority complex. You could say we’re famous for it.
I thought it was just more Auckland marketing - where else would you have a Big Little Quake but in the Big Little City?
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Jackie Clark,
people make a city not just buildings...
...the lovely woodturner who worked from the Arts Centre for 28 years.
It was great to see Wellington retailers extend a helping hand to their Christchurch counterparts.
<rant>
It also highlights how badly the Arts Centre's tenants were served by that once august institution's management and Trust Board.
Chartered with the dual tasks of being a community arts space and guardianship of the precinct of faux-Gothic structures and a lovely Great Hall - all of which is largely memorable because of the range of tenants and wares (including the weekend market).
Come the September earthquakes the buildings were badly damaged, and more so in February.
It appears that The Arts Centre's response was to forget about the people and follow their stone heart - they fired all their staff and terminated all leases (except Untouched World's, I hear that they helped pay for their building's earthquake strengthening and fit out, so that probably gave them a free pass - one wonders if it also helped that one of their directors was on the Trust Board at the time, even though they apparently recused themselves from discussions at meetings - and what a shame (and double standard) that the Arts Centre won't now accept The Dux de Lux's owner's similar offer to help pay for fixing the non-Gothic stand alone building it occupies - the reopening of which would be a real tonic - with or without gin - for the city).
I haven't heard if the cast out tenants have been given a first right of tenancy on their spaces - but given the time that the Arts Centre will take to restore itself, many will have disappeared. Then we'll probably see more of a mall concept emerge and less of the small artists and craftspeople that had subsidised rents under the charter (this is the charter that a few years back was slightly amended to incorporate the word 'develop').
At least one of the fired staff had the wit, vision and heart to start the Gap Filler project - something the Arts Centre could have been behind on behalf of the performers who would normally use the Arts Centre, and did the Arts Centre try to advocate for alternate spaces for their tenants or market, I don't think so (but would welcome proof to the contrary). The commercial market from the Square got the use of the neighbouring YMCA's carpark for their use.
I think the Arts Centre (mgmt & Board) should be ashamed of how badly they have lost their way, how does one go about getting a whole board replaced and how can one find out how much has been spent in recent years on flash Auckland lawyers instead of on earthquake strengthening?
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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to recordari,
Expiration date...
You leave me Breathless
yeah, as the French Canadians
say what's that a bout...
... de souffle ?
wait till you see the whites of their eggs!!I'll see your 1958 with some French Cheaters
even without subtitles it is pretty easy
to follow the plot - great soundtrack... -
Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
and to have this experience a couple of times a day for months would be very very wearyingly on people…
In some ways what is worse,
is when we don't have them!It is now 24 hours since any
recorded shakes here, and that
is unnerving as it feels like the
pressure is building somewhere...- I think I (we?) have the seismic
equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome,
it is definitely like a hostage situation
(hmmm, maybe this would've fitted
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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to recordari,
"Where you can't keep you mind off/ the crimes of Paris..."
which reminds me of an oblique reference to the point where a dyslexic Ladyhawke meets Jean Paul Belmondo (and at the risk of Godwinning the thread...)
Is Paris Burning? -
Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to recordari,
Anyone know what this slightly risqué French offering is? Not that I'd be interested or anything. Just asking.
oooh - I love a challenge.
the envelope please...
<riiiip>
and the answer is...
<dramatic pause>La Viaccia (1961)
with Claudia Cardinale & Jean Paul Belmondo
and it's an Italian production, but first released at Cannes in 1961.here it is de-Elvised...