Posts by Craig Ranapia
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I don't have the numbers to hand, but it looks like the AFS had one of -- if not the -- best attended opening nights in years. Isabelle Huppert, je t'aime.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to kei rivers,
We do have another long convoluted theory
I've got a number of them -- and none come to a conclusion other than the Prime Minister giving Helen Clark a call and asking where she hid the taser she used on Mallard.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Ross Mason,
I am a poster who said they should throw the book at looters when this story turned up.
Oh, I'm still for throwing the book at looters -- "the book" being due process leading to a fair trial conducted under the rule of law. "The book" doesn't include a chapter on police officers, felons and concern-troll thugs keeping their fucking hands to themselves, because that shouldn't have to be said to anyone with any pretensions to civilization.
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Yes. He did. Michael Laws directly compared autism to paedophilia.
OK, Russell, time to by-pass the diseased monkey and go straight to the organ grinder. Who the frak holds Laws' choke chain at Radio Live, because I'd like to have a civil (but free and frank) word on why I'm embarrassed to share a platform with this prick.
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Muse: Film Socialism (or, How You'll…, in reply to Venetia King,
Venetia:
Thanks you for catching some errors that survived the third proof-reading (honest). If I'm going to keep crowd-sourcing the editorial work like this, I've got to score some prizes.
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Dear Amanda Palmer:
I'd be a much better husband for you, despite not being an award-winning, best-selling widely-beloved icon of goth girls and geeks everywhere.
That is all.
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Muse: Film Socialism (or, How You'll…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Nice. Looks like half my family is heading your way this evening. Feel free to engage Jimmy in talk about film. He is perceptive.
Yay! Let's just hope he doesn't take Mme. Huppert as a role model, or things could get dreadfully tense -- scowling, aggressive smoking, rough sex and homicide all over the show.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Bart Janssen,
To me that is the place of the government. To pay for locally relevant content.
So, I guess the e-mail informing me that Public Address Radio can been cancelled due to NZoA's cheque bouncing? Might want to qualify and nuance just a little bit.
We certainly don’t vote for governments that support that kind of thing.
We certainly don’t vote for anyone who speaks in the majestic plural. :)
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
And why, pray tell, should he have?
Shush. Shall we just assume he's Darth Brownlee's padiwan-learner and leave it at that?
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Sam F,
One point that stood out to me: odd discounting practices, namely slashing prices on bestsellers and quietly ramping up prices on less exalted items.
But complaints of Whitcoulls' predatory loss-leading (and demanding publishers suck up ridiculous discounts and sale-or-return conditions) are nothing new. I remember when Thomas Harris' <i>Hannibal</i> was released in 1999, and Unity quietly announced they'd be filling orders but not holding any stock because there was no way they could afford to match (IIRC) Whitcoulls pricing the hardcover only slightly more expensive than a trade paperback.
If anyone can explain how psychotic deep discounting doesn't inevitably end in a circle jerk death spiral for everyone involved, you'll have earned a Nobel Medal in economics and my eternal gratitude.
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