Posts by Jolisa
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hell, I'm kinda of tempted to get back on the bike while I still have a sweat up and get some goddamn shanks.
Would that temporarily render your bike a shanks' pony?
(Obligatory soundtrack to that quip:
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Hey, good news, Russell: what we call lamb's quarters in the States is just a common or garden weed. Not the forequarters or hindquarters of an actual lambykins. Just greens, high in oxalatey-stuff, just like spinach and brassicas and so on.
So you can nosh away on your lamb shanks with impunity. As long as you make enough for me too!
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I reckon we all should chip in and buy Jackie a bike! I would be a starter with $100.
Seriously, Jackie: got a Paypal account or something?
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Some very recent research appeared to have isolated a specific virus but the last thing I heard about that was that this was a long way from being conclusive.
Rob: you mean the retrovirus XMRV, apparently found at a significantly higher rate in the blood CFS sufferers than the general population? It's been in the news again this week. Looks like there is conflicting data, or conflicting interpretation of data. But if true, it could be a breakthrough along the lines of the stomach-ulcer-bacteria one.
Via Roger Ebert's prolix and various twitterfeed, this account of CFS from another sufferer.
Much sympathy and respect for those enduring CFS, FM, and the like. This discussion is so valuable: it's really good to share the knowledge.
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The problem is sometimes that they're wearing earbuds and may not hear you even if you shout.
Get a bell. A nice loud ding-a-ling bell. Isabel necessary on a bicycle? Yes.
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Good catch, Islander - directed by Wells, but indeed written by Anne Kennedy. (The NZOnscreen site privileges the directors and producers; you have to dig deeper to find out who wrote what).
I agree heartily about the richness of the literary trove, just sitting there waiting to be adapted for the screen. Someone once told me that a short story is the perfect length for a feature film,whereas most novels are far too long to work as films. Which might explain why most adaptations of novels feel rushed, whereas these films which grew out of short stories really allowed you to linger in a particular world while still grasping the story that was being told.
On the other hand, I feel as though short stories are getting shorter and shorter these days, for no good reason (except perhaps our attention spans?).
Steering back on thread, is OF more of a five act drama (hat tip to the bard), or one of those triple-decker VIctorian novels?
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I grew up in Massey, and when I was 17 a short film called Universal Drive played on TV. I was really excited. Finally, a reflection of my part of Auckland, complete with a proper backyard party and road chase out to Bethells.
... and written by the wildly talented Debra Daley, who was a founding blogger at Public Address back in the day. You can see part of it here. Takes you back!
In the same series was Peter Wells' Jewel's Darl, starring a young Georgina Beyer, and an adaptation of C.K. Stead's A Fitting Tribute; also a kitchen sink drama starring Jennifer Ward-Lealand. They made a big impression on me at the time; possibly because they were screened only once, and so late at night, that you had to go out of your way to see them.
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LOL, Cecelia. A new one to me, but henceforth an inevitable companion to the ancient family joke involving probably the same lady, and the phrase "Winter draw[er]s on"...
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It is never too soon to bring roller skates into a thread. Nor Olivia Newton John. Wow. The suit-dresses with the shoulder pads! The excess of cobalt blue! The blusher! ONJ's lurex harem pants!
Also, courtship on a tightrope with parasols. Giovanni, don't you think it needs a closer reader than you were able to give through your initial tears of, um, joy?
It's probably a sign of my excessively sedentary lifestyle that for the first minute of that video I thought the people whizzing past in the foreground were doing it in desk-chairs, though.
(I also love how what they saved on a lyricist they spent on wardrobe.)
Poetically: I am a big haiku fan myself, and have only just discovered fibs, a sort of haiku for maths geeks - have at it!
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Oh, very nice indeed!