Posts by Rich Lock
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I want to plant a seed and grow a house
A Yew Topiarian vision.
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Hard News: Towards the Truth, in reply to Ross Mason,
A few seconds
Please don't get me started on my current favourite whinge about how 'the market' is mistaking the sizzle for the steak, and we're all wearing the consequences.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to BenWilson,
Certainly I've felt such a crushing effect from people's observations on my identity.
Said effect can usually be triggered by using the phrase 'it's not you, it's me'. At which point, an abundance of pithy observations on one's identity are generated by the adressee....
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Sacha,
Not everyone starts on the inside
Yes, good point.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Sacha,
some people choose to be 'the outsider'.
Yes, but do they start off on the inside and then make a deliberate decision to move to the outside, or are they drawn to the outside as a consequence of who they are?
nature/nurture, free will, etc, and like I say, I'm getting in over my head.
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if I had a spouse and children, the calculus would be different, but I'm not sure how much.
It's an entire new equation. You have been warned :)
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We went through the same exercise when we moved from the UK. My advice, for what it's worth, is to only get rid of stuff you aren't thinking of replacing - pack and ship as much as you possibly can.
Firstly, the costs of replacing it all really adds up, even if the individual items are small and inexpensive.
Secondly, you probably won't be able to replace, for example, those lamps locally. There's a limited size market here, and it's miles from anywhere else.
Thirdly, there's always something more important to spend your money on when you're actually here, like bills and rent. So it'll take you years to re-accumulate all that groovy stuff.
So bite the bullet and ship it all.
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Well, arguably some people choose to define themselves on the margins or outside the mainstream because that's where they feel comfortable (and they don't feel comfortable in the mainstream). They didn't choose to be a person that feel suncomfortable in the mainstream.
They're going with the flow rather than trying to make themselves be something they're not.
To use an example (and I may be getting myself in over my head with this), you don't choose to be gay, any more than you choose to be straight. But how you deal with being placed in a position that is still outside the mainstream, how you define and accept yourself (or not), is your choice.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I'm beginning to think we all both at a margin and a center - it all depends on where you're standing, and how self-aware you are that "normal" is a minefield.
Also, that generally no-one deliberately chooses to be the outsider.
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to Felix Marwick,
Well I recall that the Herald and ZB covered it. I see Fairfax also followed it, as did RNZ, Radio Live, and AAP.
Hell, I even tweeted about it just to make doubly sure it got out there.What Sofie said.
Tindall: full front page coverage (with a small sidebar on some other story I can't recall - probably a car crash knowing the herald). Plenty of follow-up over the next few days.
SAS shootout in Afghanistan: A small box on page A6. Zero follow-up.
Your effort to 'get it out there' is extremely laudable. But my point is that I don't really want our de facto national paper to be taking it's cues in terms of content, tone, direction and editorial line from The Sun.