Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Marion Morrison* - home on the range...
But tell me why it says "Don't phone"
over the ranch fence?.aah well spotted, Pilgrim...
I'm guessing it's meant to say DONITHONE
- Tom Donithone being Mr Wayne's name
in the movie... but the wooden acting lacks
the ring of authenticity...at the risk of being Stipe-cast...
R.E.M. PILgrimage.
and well it may not be the Hajj but Journey
are a trip too...this is apparently the top-selling catalog track in iTunes history, at more than three million downloads... (according to Wikipedia)
* John Wayne's birth name
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ok at the KawaKawa corral
We pilgrims find that queues enhance the experience
most prefer drugs
but when the pills are grim wait till the
john queue wanes... -
Sigh ... There are plenty of location-based services on the internet already.
and yer basic cellphone as well...
at least we don't have chips in our shoulders yet...
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small town NZ Gothic unease that Sam Neill championed
I thought he hated it?
publicised then...
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W C fields...
Ah ha, but... There's KawaKawa
sadly this first flush of creative community
facilities was to be a flush in the pan and is
now just a part of life's rich tap history...Imagine if Hundertwasser had designed a stadium. How cool would that be?
it'd probably look like this
if it's good enough for John Lydon
(a classic secessionist musician if ever...)
it'd be good enough for us...Speaking of towering visions...
I've just watched the trailer for Predicament
and they have got the "tower" in that way wrong
- and if this is the NZ trailer why is the Ronald Hugh Morrieson connection relegated to the fine print credits..
Jemaine Clement & Tim Finn seem to be the selling point for pete's sake!!
how come no "from the author of Came a Hot Friday and Scarecrow", no intimation that this is from the father of small town NZ Gothic unease that Sam Neill championed - NZ funding but nothing to indicate its antipodean origins - what a missed opportunity... -
The wind in the pillows. A tale of 2am in the city.
or as it would be in Christchurch
A Zephyr in Manchester St... -
My morning commute is travelling West to East, into the rising winter sun, as it brings light to a foggy Hagley Park. A magic moment, always enjoyed at the end of Kilmarnoch St.
I have memories of the surreal sight of cycle-powered disembodied heads floating along, above the Hagley morning fog...
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willow on lather...
...the closest neighbour finally took matters into their own hands one breezy evening with a swift brick through the windshield.
Hardly cricket, pruning secateurs might've been a better first option than the breeze block...
and what is it with this specific 2am wind
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spooky, even... -
Probably a good idea - the city hiked burial fees by 10% this year to help pay for the Stadium...
You are indeed being stiffed...
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Mastercard, ANZ, Emirates, Heineken. Toshiba, Brancott Estate...
And, given that they’re underwriting the whole thing, I really can’t see the issue with their ads replacing existing ones for 6 weeks.
Are they really more evil than Westpac, Tui, Hanover Finance etc that have tended to dominate grounds over the last few years?
Well, Hanover Finance sure proved themselves to be pretty evil...
Westpac is a regular finalist in the Roger Awards
and of the new bunch ANZ is a past winner of CAFCA's Roger Award
I thought us taxpayers were doing a fair amount of underwriting/contributing as well ...
where are our ads?