Posts by Peter Darlington
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could it be that Californication has more of a feminist agenda, no doubt equally abhorrent to Family First, than we thought? Hmm, discuss.
It has no agenda, it has the odd good line (the 'bro-ner') and apart from that it is vacuous personified. Nicely covered by the steady stream of naked hotties in the first two episodes but that's dried up now as well.
Cf reminds me a bit of Huff, that show looked really promising in its first series (some great lines, potentially interesting characters, not certain where it was heading etc...) but quickly became down and dull in the 2nd series as the writers ideas dried up. I think Cf's writers might have done their dash after the 'little man in the boat' speech in Ep 1.
Also, the daughter creeps me out for some reason. It's like they tried not to go for the stereotyped sweet little angel character but came up with something far more disturbing instead. Like a pre-pubescent Meg White dwarf with the wisdom of Yoda. *shudders*
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Someone must have said to Duchovny you're a wooden actor & he took it as a compliment, he's reason enough not to watch.
No way, he's great. He's wooden alright, but in the Bill Murray sense, not the Ronnie Reagan sense. Last night he managed to remain wooden while banging a Scientologist and puking over a painting, almost simultaneously.
That's some fine kind of wooden, right there.
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Is it so hard to just Google up Jimmy Dean Sausage?
Not particularly, but it was more of an exclamation than a genuine question.
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That was a great story Stephen, although I kind of wonder at why she was revealed so openly. I assume names / identifying data have been changed but still.
Never mind that, what the hell is 'Jimmy Dean Sausage'???
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It sounds like things here in Mt Eden are moderately better. I'm on holiday this week and I'm shocked at the novelty of having reasonably speedy DSL at home. Normally when I use it in the evenings it craaaawwwllls along (though mysteriously seems to jump back up to speedy at midnight...)
That must be when all the filthy pR0n heads and copyright thieves have finally sated their respective lusts for the evening.
But I know that my parents DSL is in the sleepy seaside settlement of Raglan is faster than what I get here.
Yeh, here in little old Brightwater, south of Nelson it's usually great. I reckon it's one of the defining differences between a telco and a network company. Networks usually work better at the hub than on the fringes. With telco's it appears to be the other way around.
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Eventually Simon Pound and Abbie Rutledge grabbed me to dash over to Code, where Scribe was playing the after-after-party to a packed house, including an increasingly unhinged McColloch and Thompson. Additional blagging (in the door, up to the VIP bar on the mezzanine, a bright pink token for a free drink) ensued, and I stayed for some of an energetic set before jumping in a taxi to arrive home shortly before 2am.
My god, as I finish up scything the hay and preparing the feed for the pigs and cleaning out my old briar pipe down here in the chilly South Island, I wonder about the lives of you sophisticated Auckland glitterati (a man in a white suit you say?).
I bet you snorted cocaine off a supermodels belly, made some home made pR0n and got dropped off home in P-Diddy's Maserati as well!
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Things are about to get really bumpy and I fear where this is going to end. I'm going to bed in the hope this is all one bad dream.
Crikey indeed. My biggest worry now is that when the truth finally does come out, I'll be thoroughly underwhelmed.
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Perhaps its the people I hang out with, but I have far more difficulty imagining women doing a barbie than I do imagining them playing rugby.
You obviously haven't seen the indomitable Janice and Sue from Caffe Astoria in action then. If they've prepared the menu, no one is entrusted to work the chargrill but them.
They'd fail dismally at the beer drinking bit though. Would have to be wine or a cocktail.
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They just didn’t realise they were playing in a game without the offside laws. In any other test we would have seen 4-5 kickable penalties for the AB’s in the final 60 minutes.
Yeh, that's the question that should've been asked of Paddy O'Brien. 'What the hell's happened to offside, Paddy? It's disappeared on your watch!'
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Peter: But no England team has ever gone into a football world cup touted as the dominant team and favourite in the way that the ABs were before this tournament. Brazil usually and the Dutch in 1978 and 1974 but never England.
True, the dominance doesn't tie up but I was trying to say that England had their best chance to get the 1966 monkey off their backs in 1990 and failure to do so looks to me like they may never actually do it. In successive tournaments they've been getting worse.
Likewise, I feel no optimism about our future chances seeing this one get away. If the AB's next year are without...
Oliver
Hayman
Jack
Robinson
Collins
Thorne
Kelleher
Weepu(?)
McAlister
Mauger
Muliaina
Howlett...and possibly others. How do you think we are going to go over the next few years?