Posts by wendyf
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Thanks from me too, David. I helped support a man with AIDS during the 80's and he used to talk of 'the old days' when he sometimes performed in drag. I was living in Auckland at the same time, though I didn't know him. But I was aware of the culture.
Your story illuminates so much of what the city was back then. And what it was in the 80's, when my son was part of the scene. They were fun days, yes, but tense. Many many funerals, though not, thank goodness of my son.
I remember going to the hospital with my friend for him to take part in a trial of some sort, to do with HIV. It involved having an infusion and there was him and another man taking part. At one time my friend left the cubicle for some reason and the other man spoke angrily to me. He talked of how gay men came from all sorts of places, not just the educated career people, the 'nice' people, but from the gutter as well. (I can hear him now, with a rough Scottish accent). I was taken aback at the violence of his speech, but it was something that needed to be said. Still is.
Was it George Gair, National, who swung the vote in parliament?
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I saw a brief clip om TV3 news of Heston "..from my cold, dead hands." And I'm finding it hard to get it out of my head, since I also hear "..from 20 pairs of little cold dead hands."
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Thanks, David, for an alternative vision of lovely Brownlee. Idly kicking a stapled cat on a round table, but not realising it's an old Garfield - a dunger.. Specsavers have seriously extensive gadgets for checking out eyes. And you get a second pair free!!
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What has happened to the other three men who were with KDC?
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I listened yesterday to the 4th Reith lecture given in Wellington by Niall Ferguson, an economic historian. He was loud in his praise of current English education, and in particular private and charter schools.
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Ahem. I'm a newish MySky subscriber (thanks to daughter) and loving being able to record stuff and whizz through the ads. I don't have all that's on offer, but I do have Comedy Central and I can't find the Daily Show. Help, please...
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OnPoint: Peek-a-boo, I can't recall…, in reply to Jolisa,
I have to confess - I've sniggered every time I heard the name. Even when it was about Christmas hampers.
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Just... thank you Blair.
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Just starting to breathe again. Thanks.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Bart Janssen,
One sinks.