Posts by Biobbs
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Anyone who can't dance to The Bats can't dance. So there :-).
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Islander,
Interesting. I go for works, rather than directors etc.
Yep. That statement does include written works, rather than writers, as well.Fair point. I think my love of the Coens is because I've enjoyed every one of their works without exception, even the ones that were less well liked by most people. Just something about what they do with story structure, mood, and how they get the best out of their actors, that appeals to me.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Kracklite,
OK, Kubrick’s dead. Werner Herzog, maybe. Cave of Forgotten Dreams showed that he thinks in the long term.
And he made Grizzly Man! Best ever delivery of the message 'animals are animals, not oversized cuddly people in furry suits, got it?'
But call me a low-brow populist, I'll go for the Coens as the best living director (team). Scorsese in second place.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Kracklite,
I wish that they’d started thinking and talking this way three years ago. Why now, why so late? How deep, how intractable is that commitment?
+1,000,000.
I'm also delighted to see the party finally rediscover its mojo, but if this what they really believe, why the fuck is this the first we're hearing about these values?
Re putting kids in political broadcasts, I'm fine with the Greens doing it but not any of the others. Because it's clear that the Greens really do care about kids and the future of the planet, whereas it's hard to see any sincerity from any of the other parties on these matters. (OK, Labour under Clark did do some genuine good things for families and education, but not much for the environment, and has shown bugger all interest in these things in the last 3 years).
Somewhat O/T, but why is it that the people who shout loudest about protecting children (promoting censorship of books, music etc) are also the ones most vehemently opposed to doing anything that really helps them - like free education, free health care, safe and extensive cycling pathways, public libraries?
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Seems it's even older :-)
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Olympus Mons – now there’s a mountain.
and in second place rising from the bottom of the
crater Rheasilvia on the asteroid VestaNeither of which is as monumental as The Pixies.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I think it's similar to saying "Pixies: just a band" on bFM.
No, because saying 'Pixies: just a band' really is silly. That's like saying "Everest: just a mountain". "Laphroaig: just a whisky". "Michael Phelps: just a swimmer".
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iSad.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I’m still struggling to think of a good metaphor to describe it that’s more positive than a five headed monster, or whatever it was that was thrown around to frighten people in the past.
Pluralism, maybe?
Representative democracy, even!
Seriously, I cannot understand why the hell Labour still keeps trying to behave like a FPP party. MMP has been good for Labour - good relations with coalition partners were one of the key factors keeping them in power in the 00s and Helen Clark knew it and exploited it.
And FPP was unkind to Labour. In both 78 and 81 they got more votes than National. Historical counterfactuals are never straightforward, but I often wonder how different NZ history might have been with Muldoon as a one-term PM, Labour in power in those turbulent years. No Springbok Tour? No 'Think Big' and its drain on the economy? Who knows.
Message to Labour: You've had 15 years to get used to working with MMP and coalition partners. You are never going to form a majority government again, so why are you determined to behave so suicidally this time?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to B Jones,
My own grandmother, according to the family story, asked her older sister at age 21 where babies come from, and was told she was too young to know.
It's never too young to start, is it?
Here in Denmark, there are explicit sex-education books for pre-schoolers on sale in most bookshops. I was a bit startled when I first saw them...but then figured, well, why not? The evidence is that normalising understanding from an early age leads to better outcomes, after all.
They weren't pop-up books though. Maybe next edition...