Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
OMG a rare sighting of Nicky Wagner (well her back)
Here's her front. The Shiploid factor appears to be kicking in of late.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Islander,
The wisdom of kaumatua was respected for life-experience in general – but you had to be actually an expert ( a tohuka) in a field – for, instance navigation (which was the major field for star lore)- before you’d be respected for that kind of learning.
Islander you're a never-failing source of the most fertile and inspiring stuff.
It's Ring's sly hints at unearned mana that makes him more contemptible than if he were just another self-deluding charlatan. He's a throwback to a largely vanished NZ where a dash of 'Maori' was presumed to give weight to the most specious claims. At heart he's no different from the annoying drunk on the overnight express c. 1972 ranting against abortion: "The old Maori sheila, she don't believe in abortion." An ignorant, ignorant man.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
This is The Plague (an early version of what later became Blam Blam Blam) during their notorious naked performance.
Featuring Richard Von Sturmer painted blue.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
[if one more person tells me they’re scared of the new moon because it causes earthquakes…]
"I had made up a perigee stick like the ones the Maori elders used and was using it until I realised you could simply refer to a nautical almanac to find out when the next perigee was coming."
Those Maori elders eh? If you're stuck without an almanac you can always pull a couple out of your butt."A group of us were all set to travel to Nambassa, the rock music festival. I noticed from the almanac that the full Moon and the perigee were due to coincide just before the festival and so I said don't go, it will pour down. But they all went anyway without me. And as I thought would happen, a torrential downpour meant that most campers got thoroughly washed out on the last day of the event."
See this is the problem with unreconstructed hippies. I mean, picture the kombi bumping up the track to the homestead, and there's bloody Ken with that shiteating grin hopping about like he's cacked himself. So did they pitch him into the longdrop or suchlike to teach him a simple life-lesson* like normal people would have done? No way, they anointed him as some kind of shamanistic new age scientist, thereby creating a noxious pest for future generations. Bloody hippies.
*Despite Chchch being the defacto focus of some of Ring's most irritating claims, he never comes here. Whatever his faults he's smart enough to know that he's probably at greatest risk of some kind of public tarring and feathering in these parts.
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Far out. Looks like he got a new plinth or whatever the term is sometime in the years since I first unexpectedly came across him. Lovely to see him still there, a mildly magical corner of Auckland.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Jos,
close up of NZ artists
Presold $13. Same as it cost for Tom Waits at the Ak. Town Hall that same year.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Richard Aston,
( Dam the Dam )
Wasn't that John Hanlon? Came across him working as an adman in Sydney in the mid-90s.
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Moses Toeses
I remember that Moses. A scaled-down Carrara statue factory knock-off of this one, is he still near the bottom of the steps from St Kevins Arcade?
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Sacha,
good to see some useful local infrastructure coming back.
The most tangible sign so far of the elusive rebuild, which is probably why Roger & Gerry made a rare appearance outside the confines of the CERAbunker. Parker & consort attended, though the Parkeress looked as if she'd rather be somewhere more upmarket. The real Roger is on the edge of shot, but a close squizz reveals that he - or some base imitator - also made the cover of the TV Guide.
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Legal Beagle: Urewerrors, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Brings a whole new meaning to "Whitey Go Home"
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