Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Seamus Harris,
What’s next? Post my photograph and place of work?
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Seamus Harris,
It’s starting to piss me off in a big way.
You still sound like a dirty little bugger to me.
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Emma Hart,
I am delighted that he’s chosen to embrace feminism,
For some reason I’m reminded of an elusive quote that might have once been applied to Aldous Huxley - “His embrace was like having a slug crawl over one.”
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The mayor of Wanganui in the 1920s and poet D’Arcy Cresswell had a bit of scandal and blackmail going on.
That’s quite a story, and very relevant. Cresswell seems to have been something of a piece of work. When I was in high school in the 60s his From Lyttelton Harbour was in our poetry textbooks. Now it’s very hard to find even a mention of it.
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Hard News: Sick with Anger, in reply to Sacha,
special needs
What would you suggest? Through most of the years of being a special class parent I rarely ever found it to be a stigma. Certainly not one of those trigger expressions like handicapped. IMHE some people who measure as low IQ can display an acute sensitivity to the intentions that underlie words. Someone who could talk proudly of what “us specials” had done that day would become totally uncooperative with a well-intentioned busybody who used the term “special needs” in their presence.It’s all in the tone.
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The grand old Chch custom of always having a token senile councilor seems to have ended, praise be.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Lilith __,
No one has suggested men be prohibited from parks or streets at night. Wouldn’t that also be effective?
For those men who invoke their daughters when advocating restrictions on female behaviour, I'm rather partial to the idea that they be blindfolded in public and led around by said daughters.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Bob has only written several third-rate novels, which have long been remaindered.
When the then Australian Democrats leader the late Don Chipp visited Wellington in the late 80s, Jones met with him and presented him with some of his literary efforts. Amazingly enough the famously foul-mouthed Chipp seemed to have taken the trouble to attempt to read them. When asked at a press conference the following day what he made of his meeting with Jones, Chipp replied (to the best of my recollection) "Does this bloke think he's a writer or something? Bugger me, they're bad".
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Lilith __,
And I really think the greenie-fringe-weirdo stereotype could be laid to rest.
Please. I'm old enough to remember when the let's-not-frighten-the-chooks argument was regularly wheeled out against Labour's nuclear free policy. In around late 1981, when a bunch of Friday night on the piss car salesmen stopped in at a lower North Shore park to beat up the occupants of a tent peace embassy, it took a certain amount of political courage to keep on believing. Three years later it had become something that the majority were proud to endorse.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to JacksonP,
Some Scritti.
Thanks for the memory jog, delightful. Here's my fave, from around a year earlier.