Posts by Hebe
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Eats lizards? Crunchy I guess. My first cat, the sainted Sit Fishious, used to bring in lizards and leave them under my flatmate's bedhead to dessicate. He didn't like the man.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Nora Leggs,
My cats always seem to either leave a whole but battered mousie with the signs that show it has been played to death and left as a present for the humans. Or they devour everything bar the tail. The few that eat tails too have always seemed to vomit them up, probably due to indigestibility.
I read once that a mouse, right down to the dirt on its paws, was nutritionally a complete feline meal. -
I snapped this quickly when I went to Alice’s yesterday. Pic 1: Looking from by the Alice’s building on the corner of High and Tuam across High St to the Cotter’s building. The empty spaces are Poplar Lane. The person is projecting a design onto Alice’s old front door that will become C4 Espresso. Pic 2: I think the brick wall on the left of Cotter’s is the side of Goodbye Blue Monday or the Russian vodka bar.
I do see these scenes as hopeful rather than documenting the destruction. The big sky, the possibilities excite me, while the "what was there" thoughts are an inevitable part of the "lingering grief"( Rebecca Macfie's words in the Listener nail the feeling). It's taking time to come to terms with it all. -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
I drove past the bulls mid-afternoon yesterday and was startled by the many people wandering around the otherwise vacant site, peering, inspecting, talking and just being there in the sun. A cheering and unexpected sight right by the red zone fences.
After that I was going to drive west along Gloucester St from Latimer Square on the way the to St Albans, for no reason other than just because I could. But I couldn't: there was a freaking traffic jam from Manchester St down. An inexpressibly weird moment. The city is alive again; sometimes, sort of. -
Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
Not to pile on here, but … this isn’t a “philosophy of education.” It’s a regime of quantification masquerading as a system of value. It’s part of the same long, slow cultural tragedy that sees managerialism eventually destroying the ethos and, well, point of every institution it invades.
Absolutely agree; bloody box-tickers who love the "think outside the square" phrase because they cannot do just that.
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Nicely described, to which I’d only add that it didn’t feel like, you know, one of ours.
Well put Ian and Joe. The sway and rock was insistent here, so much so I thought it was going to be bad for Wellington or Kaikoura. P or S waves or something -- horizontal not the vertical smash of February 22 (my large heavy dining table jumped from hip level to shoulder height then; no pre-shake just crash smash up and down). I was 2km from that epicentre and learned that shaking and rolling means you are further away from the epicentre. Just thought you'd like to know....therapy moment over.
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Um, I'm seeing OPM opportunities... ;-)
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Meanwhile Rupert Murdoch considers peeling off News Limited's good bits (entertainment, tv, movies) and siloing the bad (not as-much-profitable) print sections.
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Recover?
Print is a sunset industry.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Sacha,
Forget that eco-city
Agreed. that's why I see the bulls sculpture as metaphoric and horribly apt for our new city. Never mind; most of us manage perfectly well without a CBD most of the time. Day-to-day we live in our villages .
I hear tell of old hands talking of a 50-year time frame to get the central city fully functional again. Some of the fast-up buildings are only the first wave of construction; they are planned to be replaced in relatively short (10-20 years) timeframes. I wish we could think that an eco-city is going to happen but the signs are not good.
