Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I don't know what Jim Kerr looks like.
The very idle thought comes from late-night music-channel grazing so I don't know the name of the video to give a hint other than it's one of the well-known songs and he 's got ginger hair and wearing a baggy suit (not that I have ever seen Russell Norman in a baggy suit).
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to DexterX,
Nothing to do with anything musical, I'll say it anyway: has anyone else noticed the likeness of ginger-period Jim Kerr to the Greens' Russell Norman?
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My name is Hebe and I like Simple Minds. I suppose I'm banished now.
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Today's landmark for me: taking the teenagers to Alice's in Videoland to get a movie, then to South City New World for a shop for me and fast food for them. And a visit to the wee library at the mall. Little stuff can be so fine.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Islander,
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(Trying to represent applause - clapping of hands -- for the poem)
lIngerers on the land mmmm good.Are you here, or are you still there?
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
Thank you for the links Lilith. Those vegetation plans are good -- I was trying to find my hard-copies a couple of days ago for the plant-up, so they are timely. That history pdf is great. The CCC website is a goldmine -- if you can find your way around it!
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Winter solstice: the tomatoes hung on to make it through to the shortest day. The plant really is on its last gasp as the splotchy stems are losing their green. Time to plant some seeds for next season!
The hollyhock below has survived frost and two snow dumps, and it flowers on.
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Rob Stowell,
I meant I could pay, not write!
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Rob Stowell,
It's a little scary, but is it so bad?
Not for me because I don't own an old media outlet and I'm no longer depending on a journo wage. I would equate the destruction and the possibilities of the "new" media environment with the similar position of Christchurch CBD. It's difficult and scary and an unknown future, but the possibilities opened up are exciting and appear huge, especially for smaller groups and individuals.
I like the idea of micro-payments -- like the 99c e-books. I wonder if 20c a story would work?I could probably do something like that for PA; or a fiver a month sub for my faves.
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
It’s the Vanity Fair Rationalization, which is descended from the “I buy Playboy for the stories and interviews – which I never ever whack off over” Plea. :)
But here's a fascinating and troubling conundrum. Pick up a copy of any edition of Vogue, arguably the most influential masthead in fashion media. Every picture ultimately selected by a group of female editors of whom the youngest is 45.(Grace Coddington the creative director of the US edition is 71). And to a woman they'd rather eat broken glass than put a contemporary on the cover.I give in: I read the AWW a couple of times a year for the 'marvelous mince meals' features and advice on what to do with my old toilet roll cores.
That Vogue thing: It could be because the editrixes are not trying to reflect their own lives but what they perceive to be their readers' aspirations and secret fears; ie they want to sell mags. First thing I was told by an old pro when I started in journalism: "This is a fucking industry first. We're here to make money. And if we're fucking lucky we get to do some good journalism."
The Fairfax and News Limited razoring in Australia this week reinforces to me that the mainstream media in any form has not got the appetite nor margins to create change nowadays, but the new internet media can. And when new media has popularised or made something acceptable or unacceptable, the mainstream old media will follow.
But to create that change will take either unpaid or unrewarded effort on the net, or people like me will have to harden up and pay for consistent and long-term access to intelligent and provocative discourse.
