Posts by Jolisa
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Yay, finally saw the film, which was a entirely excellent use of babysitting budget!
Wardrobe Whinge: The mustard, paprika, and cobalt uniform colour scheme singed my eyeballs, but was pretty canonical, I guess, although that waffle-weave fabric was a bit tragic.
Trousers altogether NOT tight enough, as noted by others; occasionally so painfully loose they might as well have gone ahead and acid-washed them while they were at it.
On the other hand (note to self): useful to know that women of the future are still very strict about matching lingerie.
Most Sensitive Deployment of a Lens Flare: the modesty-flare during the climactic moment of the escape-pod birth scene. Right on the hoo-ha. Awesome.
Inadvertent Saucy Hair Subtext: Spock and McCoy had the exact same 'do, only Spock combed his straight forward and our Karl messed his up with a bit of mousse. Brothers under the skin? Or under the sheets? Heh, I was piqued, anyway.
Special "Oh the Humanities" Award: One small step for a Comparative Linguist, one giant leap for hitherto underrepresented minority onscreen (except for that one movie where Helen Hunt was depicted "photocopying her dissertation"). Represent, Lt. Uhura!
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It will probably be the last big-arsed motorway, anywhere in the world, to be shoehorned through suburbs where there has been no route protection.
True, dat. I live in the city that was the poster-town, literally The Model City, for 1950s-60s "urban renewal." Which consisted largely of bulldozing established neighbourhoods to make way for motorways... including a much touted ring road, complete with tunnels that would have gone through or under my local park.
(That last bit, thank God, was never completed - they wound up putting playing fields and parkland on the area that had been cleared in preparation. Oak St, on the other hand, was a goner.)
Now, in a fit of 20/20 hindsight, the city is planning to rip up the orphaned strip of motorway at Rt 34, rebuilding mixed housing on the land reclaimed thereby to reunite downtown with the neighbourhood to the south, and reinstating streetcars (which were removed in the late 1940s to make way for cars). Meanwhile, cycle paths are underway across the city, and cycle commuting is steadily rising.
It's going to be a struggle - cars rule the roads, the interstate has carved up the city but good, and some neighbourhoods never really recovered from the original "renewal." But the way forward is pretty damn clear.
(Gonna go blog this properly, now that I've worked up a head of steam...).
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Erratum: they left out the mixed nuts.
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Surely you needed to reverse the polarity.
The birth of slash, in a nutshell.
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Oh, 3410! Sad rofflenui!
Maybe your trousers weren't tight enough?
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BTW, Emma, that "people" substitution trick is brilliant. I'm going to use it in the classroom first chance I get.
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Plus, enumerating. Who gets to be #1?
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Which one's Bill, do you reckon?
Definitely Agnetha; the pretty one, gets all the camera time, there by virtue of how good he looks in that shiny, shiny suit.
But who's the long-suffering jealous brunette?
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Doh! Missed the crucial detail about the venue. Still, it's probably past Amy's bedtime anyway.
But next time, eh?
(More flattering angle here - mind you, any pic from 20 years ago is almost always more flattering).
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I suspect factored out as not available for a tv appearance in Auckland this evening.
Apparently there's this thing called videoconferencing... but I think it needs a computer or something.
(For future reference, Amy is not only a pioneer internaut, but also exceptionally telegenic. Ratings, people. Think of your ratings!).