Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The hypocrisy, it burns.
Nothing like a good old-fahioned auto-da-fé to sort out those hypocrites.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Islander,
No.
He was completely under the horizon as far as I was concerned...Then like Graeme your attention would have been engaged with higher matters than snuffling through the pages of Fabulous 208, that dirt-cheap source of popstar pinups, where you couldn't have missed his disconcertingly out of place pop-eyed gaze.
Because the big attraction of that pop cultural revolution was its promise of an unsupervised existence, free of the endorsement or otherwise of one's parents, Savile's old guy wacko image was a bit of a mystery. Even Rolf Harris was tangibly funnier back then.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
So … am I the only person here who had never heard of Jimmy Savile before this all became public?
That's got to be good for a 'knock knock' joke.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
Something the camera couldn't capture - the scent from this lady packed a punch.
Just gorgeous mon.
Now the rose
it slows
you in such colorless clothes
Fantastic! You lose your sense of human.
Project
Protect
It's warm and it's calm and it's perfect
It's too "too too"
to put a finger onTom Verlaine, Prove It
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I heard Paula Bennett the other night, apparently stunned – “It seems incredulous to me that it wasn’t escalated to the right people,’’ she said.
The same "right people" who maintain the pious fraud that the feeble-minded 'Minister' actually makes the decisions that are attributed to her? They were probably too busy scraping the barrel for the next installment of this kind of hagiographic hogwash.
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Here's a Toy Love performance some of you might have seen: the band playing at Auckland University on the same Orientation tour that I snuck into in Christchurch.
The Maidment, with a shirtless Mike Dooley, shortly before they went to Australia. Nice that it got recorded for posterity, but a pity about the intrusive video cameraman who later invaded the stage for some probably unnecessary closeups. Eventually Mike Dooley had had enough, and left his drum stool to drape a towel over the guy's head. After blundering about blind for a surprisingly long time with his bulky camera he got the hint.
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Hard News: When we had hope and change, in reply to Steve Ballantyne,
We seem to have done a really thorough job of effortlessly stuffing him down the memory hole, not that he didn't deserve it.
My best recollection of John Kirk's downfall is that he racked up massive debts in ski-related tourism ventures, while flagrantly neglecting his duties as MP for Sydenham. I believe that one of his registered companies went by the title of Been There Done That.
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Hard News: When we had hope and change, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
This was in the day when the PM would take the bus from the airport to get home, satchel in hand, no minder or security whatsoever.
The one time I saw Kirk was when he was opposition leader, in the Robbers Roost burger bar in Ferry Road, Woolston, collecting a huge takeaway order. At the time I thought that he must have been reasonably well off to afford so many burgers.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Thanks Hilary, I remember those frogs pics, great to hear they're still on deck. NZ seems to have become the de facto stronghold for litorea aurea since it went into drastic decline in its native SE Australia. In the early 70s they could be seen in great numbers in reptile enclosures at Taronga Zoo, presumably placed there as a food supply. In recent years the Zoo has been fighting a losing battle to re-establish wild populations.
BTW the Wikipedia distribution map for NZ looks a bit off to me, as they're still pretty common in the lower North Island.
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Hard News: When we had hope and change, in reply to Dave Patrick,
. . . the sending of a frigate to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific was not only a wonderful piece of showmanship, but the first time I can recall New Zealand having a grown-up, independent foreign policy initiative.
The Whitlam Government took a much lower profile, sending an Australian Navy refueling ship to support the NZ action. At around the same time though Whitlam was carrying out a radical liberalising of Australia's abortion laws, something that the socially conservative Kirk refused to countenance in NZ, along with homosexual law reform. Ruth Kirk was a high-profile campaigner for and patron of the anti-abortion lobby.