Wednesday, 11 August 2010. 5:15pm
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Christchurch City Art Gallery
FREE

Trillion is Jody Lloyd, one of New Zealand’s only true natural-accent rappers. His aim is to raise awareness and expose corporate and government…

Oh, I really really hate being right: Time to impeach Judge Vaughn Walker.

What a fascinating wee article.

In addition, Judge Walker is an open homosexual, and should have recused himself from this case due to his obvious conflict of interest.

I'm happy with that if any judge that was…

There's an Arcade Fire concert directed by Terry Gilliam playing on youtube right now.

I hope YouTube does more live-concert streaming from now on — they have an incredible content distribution network to do it with, and the concert looks great on my connection.

There's an Arcade Fire concert directed by Terry Gilliam playing on youtube right now.

Oh, I really really hate being right: Time to impeach Judge Vaughn Walker.

From the web site you linked:

In doing so, he frustrated the express will of seven million Californians who went to the polls to shape their state's public policy on marriage.

Seems to overlap with the whole…

that's not the same thing though is it?

It's not the same thing, and in fact if you read the link, Mark, you'll see that's exactly the situation that the de facto couple who brought the case didn't think was good enough.

Parliament shouldn't have.

I suspect I was sort of aware of this at the time. I just didn't comprehend it.

Emma – so you with your formal, written down in the record books civil union can't adopt while we, who are living in sin because we're too slack to formalise anything, might be able to if we ask really nicely? That's ludicrous!

Why yes, it is. But the alternative was…

Audio files and text available at the site, and credit to NZHerald for putting up this afternoon Colin Peacock's notes for the second lecture.

Mesure for Mesure

originally written as The Merry Wives of Stepford

As You Like IT

changed, after legal problems, from iMacbeth

may it stay off and may the other states quickly have to remove their equivalent laws.

A few interesting bits of research suggest that although this law may not stay off the books in the medium term, it won't be too long until opposition to gay marriage in the States…

But yay for wiping that obnoxious law off the books, may it stay off and may the other states quickly have to remove their equivalent laws.

Yeah, nothing's going to happen quickly, because everyone knows this is going straight back to court in California. And of course people have only…

Or that new Kiwi TV production of Mesure for Mesure?

I hear one of the Bard's best comedies is due to be played by a troupe of systems analysts in As You Like IT.

But yay for wiping that obnoxious law off the books, may it stay off and may the other states quickly have to remove their equivalent laws.

Not quite that simple — because the federal Supreme Court is a strange and eccentric law unto itself and even marriage equality advocates are…

The last production was Hamlet, set in a emerging fascist state.

what about that famous Shakespearean midsummer road play pastiche Hamlet and Louise with Brad Pitt as Bottom...

happens to be gay, so I guess we can predict the character assassination to come from the usual suspects...

Sadly it's this last fact about him which will no doubt lead to death threats and who knows what other stupid shit, over the fifteen complimentary things you said before that…

Just that it's the kind of logical, evidence-based, rule of law respecting conservatism the Tea Baggers despise

And the burden of proof is where it should be. He's demanding that Prop 8 supporters come up with some evidence to justify unequal treatment in law, not demanding that gay people prove…

Supporters of Prop 8 are planning to take this all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary

Which they're perfectly entitled to do, but (with the caveat that I'm no scholar in American jurisprudence) the language of what I've read of Walker's opinion is hardly the work of a…

Ha, I was Peaseblossom in Dream!

Sorry, it should be Pease and not Peach, even though she really likes Peaches!

Kewl — sounds a lot like a really beautiful production of Britten's opera

They do have a very inventive drama teacher (Margi Wynne-Jones). The last production was Hamlet, set in…

The money quote from Judge Walker (my bold):

[T]he evidence presented at trial fatally undermines the premises underlying proponents’ proffered rationales for…

Constantine Dabbagh, Executive Secretary of the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees in Gaza is speaking :
in Wellington, 5:15 – 6:30pm at St John's in the City Church hall, cnr Willis and Dixon Streets on Thursday, 12 August.
(poster: here…

Ha, I was Peaseblossom in Dream! (This should in no way be taken to imply anything.)

Uh oh, your daughter's going to grow up and have opinions!

book flights now and you could have a lovely weekend of hassle free handmade shopping

I hear it's a rather marvelous day out, not…

http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2010/aug/lyttelton/eye-mela-stanier-black-five

I saw Eye two years ago in the Arts Centre basement; reminiscent of Repent-era Dead C but less abrasive. And includes legendary drummer Peter Stapleton. The other two acts I don't know ...

You all should go (not just because my daughter has a role as Peachblossom!)

Ha, I was Peaseblossom in Dream! (This should in no way be taken to imply anything.)

Hamilton Girls/Hamilton Boys High are putting on a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream Aug 7-14. You all should go (not just because my daughter has a role as Peachblossom!) but because it shifts the action, in an interesting way, to the days of the British Raj.

Kewl — sounds…

Meanwhile, perhaps your comments could take up the theme of forthcoming events that may interest your fellow Public Address readers.

Anticipation of Wellington on a Plate starting next week has me very very hungry. And, if you'll allow me some self horn tootage, at the Wellingtonista we're doing a…