Posts by Nat Torkington
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Three men, blood, body parts, a head banging repeatedly into the floor of a ute, hospital trips and upset girlfriends ... sorry, I skimread the original post. I naturally assumed it was a paean to rough trade man love in the halls of power. Did somehow get the wrong end of the stick, as the bishop said to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand who was dressed as an actress and giving head to Darfield Charlie?
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Brilliant, David. I think of your pieces as Quentin Tarantino-Listener political column slash fic. What do you call your genre? "Pulp Clifton" or "Clifton Tarantino"?
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Auckland deserves a world class stadium, and a half-assed stadium is what it will get.
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What are the sides in the Hero debate? Het/homo? Dom/sub? In/out?
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#2 exists to remind you that children are born, not made. It's nature, not nurture, that determines their fundamental personality. We can fuck 'em up, but we can't just produce a Lucasian army of clones no matter how much we'd like a majority vote in the Famous Five.
Based on observation (no first-hand experience thank goodness), #3 exists to push families as close to divorce as possible.
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Or both: A la recherche des principles perdu.
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Russell, I wish to go on record deploring this ghastly mainstreaming of Public Address. Topless bloggers in tawdry cheesecake photoshoots, it's all a bit ... common, don't you think? Now you've got the plebeian masses, undoubtedly hepped up on Viagra-BZT-Prozac goofballs, baying for the bared flesh of your female bloggers. What do they think this is? Dancing With The Stars?
There was a time when Public Address represented all that was good about Newzild, the last intellectual outpost in a world of uncouth McGehan Closian teenagers popping their gum as they listen to iPods and flick through People magazine hoping to find more celebrity singers with their front bottoms showing. Public Address, with its relentless focus on New Zealand's coffee standards, leaky houses, and the all-round superiority of Melbourne to any of New Zealand's cities, was an island of cerebral discourse in a Tasmanic Sea of diarrhoea.
Now, however, I see you've finally succumbed to the modern obsession with 'eyeballs' and in an attempt to raise Public Address's traffic are prostituting the delightful Mr Slack in some gutter rag. It comes all-to-soon for my liking after I detected some liberal stirrings in your commentators (see my letter of the 2nd titled "He may have come from a State House but he's still One Of Us"). I just want you to know that if this decline in standards continues further, not only shall I stop reading but I shall put forward a motion at the next AGM to remove Public Address from the bookmarks of the Public Internet Terminal here at the Temuka RSA.
Signed, &c.
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Strange that it didn't rate a mention on MediaWatch.
Russell: what do the Nielsen Netratings numbers show for P.A. vs Kiwiblog? They'll be more reliable than Alexa, which is often little more than a random number generator.
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I see the Herald has an article on the coming iTunes store. Not a mention of Public Address getting there first.
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Here's the Sunday Star-Times article on Hansen's moves: Beating the odds in Wayne's world.