Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Friday Music: Grey Fucking Area, in reply to Russell Brown,
but it’s not so long ago that David Farrar was happily telling one of his Kiwiblog contributors that Waring was never a National MP.
Seriously? Link?
Can't do sorry, though I'm prepared to make the online equivalent of a statutory declaration that it happened. It was in around 2011. I'm sure that Farrar genuinely believed it to be the case at the time, and that he did concede his error. Of course Kiwiblog being what it is, it wasn't seen as a big deal.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Grey Fucking Area, in reply to Bart Janssen,
There are talented hard working people in the National party but we don’t get to see much of them and even less of the work they do – disappointing really.
That's a very old song you're singing. When Barry Gustafson was defeated in Birkenhead in 1987 a member of his campaign team unloaded to the camera about how he'd been undermined by Muldoon, who had a track record of destroying 'quality people' in the party. She then gave examples, including Marilyn Waring. Now Muldoon may be dead, but it's not so long ago that David Farrar was happily telling one of his Kiwiblog contributors that Waring was never a National MP.
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Going by Whyte's Foucault haircut, and the fact that he hates being deconstructed, I'd pick him as a posturing postmodernist over any of his detractors.
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to SHG,
postmodern PC wankers
Oh put it away, you'll go blind.
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to andin,
He needs a hat with bells on it.
Shoes might be more appropriate.
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to Richard Aston,
Will the people of Epsom suck it up and vote for him, regardless?
Forgive me if I've got it wrong, but aren't the people of Epsom being mustered into voting for this wannabe seatwarmer? Whatever useful idiot status Whyte currently enjoys will surely have evaporated by xmas.
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Speaker: A true commitment, in reply to andin,
To quote William Blake
“Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Rape on the stage, comic musical theatre from the 50s. Repopularised by the now outed dirty old man Rolf Harris in the 70s.
I guess there was a kind of inevitability at work there, as Harris essentially reworked the fag-end of vaudeville and the music hall tradition into a TV career. There were still a few "lightning sketch artists" around in my distant childhood, who'd emerge from retirement to enliven small-town variety shows. Then suddenly there was this doofus on TV acting like he'd invented it.
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Hard News: Dotcom: Further news of the unlikely, in reply to ,
King Kapisi - adding a bit of gummi bear to Dotcom's machine-made musical Würstchen.
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Hard News: Dotcom: Further news of the unlikely, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
For everything that he is being picked on for , he seems to have been held to account (except he didn’t credit Joe Wylie’s art that we noticed)
Just before we let that one go, hopefully forever, I very much doubt that Dotcom was personally involved, despite it happening on his Twitter feed. When he confronted John Key with his impassioned and highly articulate invoking of NZ's anti-nuclear history, I was impressed. All of that went out the window, however, when I watched his godawful video featuring the expensive Obama impersonator. What a sorry piece of self-indulgence. Obviously I'd mistaken a calculating chutzpah for passion.
I really don't get the down with the kids Dotcom schtick. Like his comsumption-masquerading-as-creativity "music" it seems awfully club-footed and condescending. Seriously, Pam Corkery dusted off from the frozen tombs and recycled as Harre's press secretary? The flaunted maharajah lifestyle has about as much to do with social justice as buying a lotto ticket. Sue Bradford understands this. Even if she never returns to public life she's already made a more significant contribution to making this country a better place than Dotcom ever will.