Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
But it is a fact that right up to 1939 (or 1942 in the US) the "respectable" right was right behind Hitler as taking the neccesary measures to deal with the real problems of the German nation.
Doesn't do to get ahead of oneself. Well after the US's entry into WW2 early outspoken opponents of Hitler such as Dorothy Parker were classified by a still-watchful FBI as PAFs - premature anti-fascists.
Closer to home, it was the Catholic Church in NZ that imported copies of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will for screening in schools. There was some interesting correspondence in the Listener in the 80s where people recalled having seen it screened right up until the outbreak of war with Germany.
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to Alec Morgan,
Anyway, it involved a young person with Downs Syndrome who got teased and hassled all day long on the bus etc. When he gets home, his mum says how was your day? –Great! says the young person. Trace‘s works are slowburners somtimes.
That early 90s Listener strip, each one a self-contained window into a different world, produced some jewels, like the memorable one you mention.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
Stone me for saying so, but I quite like the Government Life building . . .
Me too. It had a clock with light-up numbers. Public clocks seem to have vanished, as if time's been privatised. I believe that clocks are a no-no in shopping malls because they discourage consumption by reminding us of our mortality. Or something.
Anyway, I liked that building. It co-existed nicely with the now-vanished architectural armpit of Chancery Lane.
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yeah, not totally surprised to learn that Pete George isn't familiar with Swift.
Just as well. Gulliver's account of the grand academy of Lagado with its recycled ordure and exploding dog would tie Mr Common Sense in a knot of squealing indignation for the rest of his days. That such scurrilous filth should exist in the same universe that produced Peter Dunne . . .
Anyway here's a rather earlier Bob Brockie Cock centrefold in a similar vein to the example above.
BTW there's a Brockie cartoon I've been trying to track down of Muldoon burning Marilyn Waring at the stake over her crossing the floor on nuclear ships, while Geoffrey Palmer etc. happily make toast on the flames. Big thanks in advance if anyone has a link.
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Hard News: Free the Street, in reply to Simon Grigg,
The Indians do a pretty fine range in these too, all flying shivas, wicked stepmothers and talking beasties.
Eat your heart out Lars von Trier :)
When I returned to live in NZ a bit less than a decade ago I watched Shortie with some folks who were into it. There was just one character I recognised from the early episodes, who'd played an angsty youth back then. When I was told that he'd evolved into an accountant it kind of killed my interest.
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Hard News: Free the Street, in reply to Sacha,
runs rings around the Aussie equivalents, I tells you
You know, back in the 90s you could could just about add that claim to Fred Hollows' list of the three things that every expat NZer tells you*.
While SBS did run Shortie for a while, Australians seemed bemused that anyone would watch a hospital soap, as they'd already kind of been there done that. Around the same time SBS screened the toweringly camp 80s Mexican Den of Wolves, which totally creamed SS as an exotic soapie import.*1. I was an All Black trialist.
2. My grandmother was a Maori princess.
3. I was just helping that sheep through the gate. -
Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Sacha,
that did not look like a cat at first glance.
At first glance it looked like a kind of liquefaction I'd never seen before.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
.... that kingdom was neither as peaceful or as heavenly as the name proclaimed.
Understatement. With around 20 million mainly civilians dead, probably the deadliest conflict ever within a single country.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food…, in reply to Sj,
... if anyone can tell me how to change my profile photo...
If you go here and sign in (like most things you only do every few years, hope you can remember your password) you should be presented with the Manage Gravatars options. Changing your pic should then be pretty straightforward. Hope this helps, though your present pic is pretty cute IHMO.
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OnPoint: To Whom it May Concern, in reply to DexterX,
. . . most Studly Dudes who have tried Camels prefer women.
That's quite an image you've conjured up there, especially when you throw in 19 cartons of cigarettes internally concealed within one's person.