Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Another year on earth

Joe Wylie

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 20:15:29 +1300

Sad news about Jackie's Ian, condolences from me too.

It seems that Jackie also lost her beloved dog last week, presumably the same 'rescue dog' that she used to post about here at PAS. While it's easy to forget precisely what people might have said, the memory of how they made…

Rob Stowell

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:28:47 +1300

Thanks Russell – for everything. It’s been a journey – and journeys always go best in good company, and the company here has always been good :)
eta: heart goes out to Jackie. The bigger we love – the aunties has always been about love (and the k word) -…

Moz

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:51:24 +1300

anybody out there…

Evolving consensus is that we can't know, unfortunately. At least not with current physics.

Sad news about Jackie's Ian, condolences from me too.

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:05:02 +1300

But sad to hear that her husband, Ian, died that morning.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109679074/the-aunties-founder-jackie-clarks-husband-dies-on-same-day-she-is-awarded-qsm

My condolences to Jackie and extended family.

Hilary Stace

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:46:32 +1300

Great to see Jackie Clark on the New Year Honours list. I first 'met' Jackie through Public Address years ago.

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:48:07 +1300

Goodbye 2018… so long… sayonara.

I was just wondering if there was anybody out there…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQoZsXaEZ4M

Wrote a long screed with complementary links,
accidentally refreshed the page and lost it all!

But when it came back there was Ben – Yay!!
Welcome back to ‘civilisation’.

Now I know the funfair…

BenWilson

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:07:43 +1300

Arohanui Russell. So sorry to hear about Grant.

5 days offline with family that I just had would have been unendurable 10 years ago, with major Public Address withdrawals. 5 days off Twitter, OTOH, is to be heartily recommended.

Since this is a yearly reflective post, can I put the…

JWT1

Tue, 25 Dec 2018 12:14:50 +1300

Thank you Russell. I have been a regular reader of Hard News and Public Address for 23 years (since 1995) when I spent a year in Houston and HN was my touchstone back to New Zealand. Have missed several of the contributors as their contributions became sporadic or disappeared completely,…

Dennis Frank

Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:42:06 +1300

"It also made me think a lot about tribe and identity, about who we all were and what was important to us. In particular, about my role in our tribe. Outside of the bonds of family, it seemed the most enduring duty I had."

As someone still reluctant to admit…

Doug Hood

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 23:12:00 +1300

I'll cry again for Grant

Russell Brown

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 23:03:32 +1300

I’d like to acknowledge Fiona Rae for her quiet efforts this year.

Hell yes.

Andre

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 20:25:33 +1300

Grant was one of the most influential leaders of a movement that radically changed New Zealand's culture. Your place in that pantheon is also assured. I used to buy Planet religiously and living in Christchurch and Wellington it was akin to reading The Face in 1987. World class. The music…

Sacha

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 20:09:48 +1300

I'd like to acknowledge Fiona Rae for her quiet efforts this year.

Natalie Donald

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 19:21:20 +1300

Thanks for so many years of quality reading. I've enjoyed reading your work for many years and happy to contribute in a very small way to hopefully reading many many more years of well researched and sensible content. All the best for 2019 to you and your whanau.

Hilary Stace

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:01:28 +1300

Russell, thanks so much for your continuing and practical support of Access, although posts have been sparse this year. A year ago today I was recovering from pancreatitis and gall bladder surgery and on Christmas Eve fell and badly broke my ankle. The lovely paramedics from Wellington Free Ambulance came…

Trevor Nicholls

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:40:40 +1300

Thank you Russell, for setting up, curating, guiding, at times inciting, a place that was not always A Quiet Place, but has always been A Sane Space.
Glad I don't have to say "I'll miss it".
Merry Christmas and a happy (and secure) New Year.

sandra

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 15:44:37 +1300

Like Bob, I was afraid this was your signing off. Pleased to see it isn't so. And, like others, I miss the politics. Your pieces always made me think and consider if my position on whatever was the best one, the right one. I don't believe I'm a naturally kind…

Russell Brown

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 15:40:19 +1300

Blair Parkes has also written expansively, eloquently and honestly about his year involved in the twin processes of cancer discovery and treatment coupled with creating two damn fine albums.

As I just told someone else, the frankness and grace of that post was in my mind when I was writing…

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:54:27 +1300

very personal commentaries about his cancer treatment.

... Not that it's a competition in any way, but Blair Parkes has also written expansively, eloquently and honestly about his year involved in the twin processes of cancer discovery and treatment coupled with creating two damn fine albums. (Also contains a…

nzlemming

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 11:21:43 +1300

Thank you Russell, for what you give to us and enable us to give. Like Geoff, I miss the meaty stuff we used to feed on, but I know from experience that you can only go like that for so long. I'm pleased to have been a part of it.

Hebe

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 10:42:02 +1300

Ah Russell, arohanui to you and yours. I had not put together how hard the year has been overall for you. I was rapt to see a Newsroom piece praising you this week: it’s much deserved and well overdue.
And the music: The Beths! Marlon Williams geeking on the beach…

Robert Harvey

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 10:15:48 +1300

Concur with Geoff Lealand's praise for this column — reading it, was (temporarily) stricken that it might be valedictory, but thank kindness, not. I don't FB or Tweet, but browse, and Firefox opens with the following sites:
1 Metservice, 2 XKCD, 3 Alex, 4 PA, 5 Werewolf, 6 SoylentNews 7…

Neil

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 10:12:45 +1300

It feels like there has been a new, sharper, more polarised kind of argument abroad in recent years...

That’s my impression as well. Hard to quantasize but it seems to keep growing. A lot of it appears designed to just destroy debate and promote bitterness which works in favour of…

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 09:30:14 +1300

On another matter, the little film I have endeavouring to get seen by as many people as possible is now available on NZ On Screen: The Reel People of New Zealand (Nick Homler, 2017), It is a homage to independent cinemas around NZ—the people who run them and the people…

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 09:18:59 +1300

Thank you, Russell, for this lovely, reflective piece. I am one of those folk who have drifted away from PA; an occasional visitor rather than the avid daily reader of those halcyon days of 4-5 years ago. I miss the Great Blend get-togethers and MediaTake.
I guess, like others, I…

Russell Brown

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:18:52 +1300

There's something I did three months ago – a discussion of the possibilities and implications of CRISPR gene-editing for Auckland Museum's LATE series – that I was really proud of.

It finally played yesterday afternoon on RNZ and you can listen to it here. I'm also stoked that someone transcribed…

Public Address

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:18:52 +1300

Discussion from blog post.