Posts by Joe Wylie
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Russell Brown,
What I realised subsequently was that almost none of my Christchurch friends had ventured there – it was too hard. I think I was able to do something as a visitor (although I grew up in Christchurch) that they couldn’t.
The photo-essay is here if anyone missed it at the time.
Thanks Russell. Here's the shot. Just out of right frame a new place was built in 2009, with around 3 weeks of noisy piledriving before the real construction started. Despite the expensive precautions it's gone now.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Grant McDougall,
It also must be remembered that the ’quake struck at 4.30am on a Saturday
And the aftershock that mercifully unjammed my front door was around 4.50am. These things have a way of stamping themselves onto your memory.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Russell Brown,
And thanks again to Russell for giving us room the last few years here on PAS, it means a lot.
It’s meant a lot to me, too. Not just in feeling somehow useful, but for the fact that you and others have enriched the place by coming here to talk.
Thank you. Some time back, among the pictures you posted from your trip to crumbling Avonside, there was a shot taken from two doors along of the familiar river view from what used to be my kitchen window. While it was kind of numbing at the time to realise that it was now in the public domain, it was really cool that you stopped and noticed. Thanks again.
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Speaker: A Slight Diversion from…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
I seem to remember it from my childhood – it’s been there many decades, an icon, a concrete symbol of someone’s unrealised dream.
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Looking back, September 4 2010 was a gorgeous day.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Ross Mason,
The Birmingham City Council is bigger than NZ. Period.
With greater metro Birmingham - including Coventry - at a shade under 4 million on the last available figures it looks more like a photo finish.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Paul Williams,
There’s John Ansell, who despite being associated forever with Brash’s 2005 debacle is almost inevitably tagged as an “advertising guru”.
Still? I can’t track it closely but hasn’t he disappeared into a puff of conspiracy of late… didn’t the Rotary, even, decide he was best avoided?
I'd only just featured him as a denizen of the political trash heap when he popped up like Candyman.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
“personal statement from Matthew Hooten”
ahem – Hooton
“personal statement from Matthew Hooton”
in the interests of posterity…I think my confusion might have arisen from a false memory of an imaginary one-hit wonder.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Steve Barnes,
whereas over here its bankers and property developers. We really are a bunch of sad fucks eh?
There's John Ansell, who despite being associated forever with Brash's 2005 debacle is almost inevitably tagged as an "advertising guru".
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I do find it hard to believe that Williamson wrote that for Singleton’s agency
Williamson's been a regular guest over the years on Singo's various TV shows. While their contrived celebrity roast type of banter sticks in my craw, it seems to go over just fine in a culture where admen are household names like nowhere else. Singo, Mo & Jo, Siimon Reynolds with the extra i....
