Public Address | Cafe | Up Front: Whimsy Is an Extra 5 Cents a Word https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277660#post277660 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277660#post277660 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:19:58 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277657#post277657 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277657#post277657 reference. For backstory, Jim's sudden interest in her is based on her not knowing why he is bumming out, which is probably the funniest bit of the movie. Well, that and the pie. ]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:53:48 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277656#post277656 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277656#post277656 Oops, I clearly just failed a pop culture test.

No, I don't think so. It's a phrase that took on its own dynamic, entirely due to the flute episode and that Michelle then gives Jim a very rude shag. It came to symbolize the sexual diamond in the rough, the…

]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:45:53 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277654#post277654 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277654#post277654 Whamsy, you say? One for the fans (via Ben Gracewood)

http://vimeo.com/54526179

]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:40:03 +1300 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277653#post277653 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277653#post277653 Oops, I clearly just failed a pop culture test.

But, well, that would fit. Noone would want to hear it because it would be too dull. Apart from the flute story: According to my version, the flute story must be an invention.

]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:37:14 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277650#post277650 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277650#post277650 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:27:29 +1300 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277649#post277649 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277649#post277649 American Pie? ]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:18:46 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277646#post277646 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277646#post277646 Animal House..... ]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:07:02 +1300 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277645#post277645 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277645#post277645 If I were to do that, you’d all stop telling me about “that one time…” (It’s never at Band Camp. Did none of you go to Band Camp?) I went to Band Camp. Nothing happened. Nothing whatsoever. Based on my general track record at the time, and all those other… ]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:50:36 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277628#post277628 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277628#post277628 Rhodes rage...
This condition is also known as being an
angry, middle aged, white man.
Wait till you thrill to the
buzzkill of the WASP
– White Anglo Saxon Pensioner

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:14:46 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277627#post277627 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277627#post277627 ome “fair and balance” to add to your Nokia / Microsoft gig :-)

“Christmas gift for someone you hate: Windows 8”

Heh!

I once gave an earlier Windows programmed- computer to a tedious distant cousin who basically a family scrounger. Havent heard from them since.

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:04:19 +1300 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277624#post277624 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277624#post277624 Some "fair and balance" to add to your Nokia / Microsoft gig :-)

"Christmas gift for someone you hate: Windows 8"

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:49:58 +1300 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277622#post277622 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277622#post277622 Dunno. I am way less accepting of the status quo than I was at the age of, say 25 or 30. In some things more radical, in others much less.

This condition is also known as being an angry, middle aged, white man.

Which is not so aspirational :-(

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:42:30 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277619#post277619 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277619#post277619 So yeah, Telecom might be making your paid writing for Scoop possible, but that doesn’t make you Telecom’s bitch. As I read this post, I saw an ad with Taika Waititi shilling for Steinlager. What do you bet his cheque for the ad is going towards a future creative project?… ]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:34:36 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277618#post277618 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277618#post277618 Scoop is a good place.

I take my cue from Welsh cultural critic/novelist Raymond Williams who became, as he argued one should, more radical (of a left persuasion) as he aged. Drifting to the centre/right is such a lazy option.

Others to have inverted the "I was a teenage X"…

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:32:53 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277617#post277617 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277617#post277617 Its all words.

Its about time Nokia got a (not bad but pretty good) review. They missed the bus on the smarties but are catching up.

Both Nokia & Microsoft got caught napping by the smartphone boom, and their recent collaboration can only be logical.

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:21:46 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277616#post277616 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277616#post277616 Its all words.

Its about time Nokia got a (not bad but pretty good) review. They missed the bus on the smarties but are catching up.

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:30:28 +1300 Brodie Davis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277609#post277609 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277609#post277609 Isn't selling out more about just giving up on being objective starting to be miss-leading. Or just throwing your integrity to the wayside to do what the market/customer wants?

As long as your still objective and maintain your integrity, then its just work for pay, and not selling out :)…

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:54:59 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277580#post277580 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277580#post277580 yes. The horror! ]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:16:45 +1300 Lucy Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277522#post277522 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277522#post277522 I had similar issues when I started working for Telecom Xtra. I thought I was totally selling out to the man, but once I started my new job, I realised I was in a workplace full of smart, bright, creative people who were doing cool things. And yeah, dirty old… ]]> Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:46:07 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277519#post277519 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277519#post277519 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:45:15 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277515#post277515 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277515#post277515 I’ve been working for Telecom. Well, alright, I’ve been working for Scoop, but that doesn’t make as neat a punch-line.

I had similar issues when I started working for Telecom Xtra. I thought I was totally selling out to the man, but once I started my new job, I realised…

]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:08:43 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277514#post277514 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277514#post277514 So who did you feel the need to text at that moment????

Um. Megan.

Scoop is a good place.

Al is good people. And my contact at Telecom is also a lovely guy I may have previously conversed with on a completely different topic.

Drifting to the centre/right is such…

]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:07:30 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277512#post277512 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277512#post277512 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:02:32 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277511#post277511 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277511#post277511 texting while I was shaving my legs

So who did you feel the need to text at that moment????

]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:59:25 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277506#post277506 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277506#post277506 A bit later, he went to work for Telecom. I could not have won more: more decisively, more clearly, more pettily.*
I hate/love that Me I was talking about.
Fucking great read

]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:39:49 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277475#post277475 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277475#post277475 Scoop is a good place.

I take my cue from Welsh cultural critic/novelist Raymond Williams who became, as he argued one should, more radical (of a left persuasion) as he aged. Drifting to the centre/right is such a lazy option.

]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:34:21 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277472#post277472 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277472#post277472 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:26:30 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277458#post277458 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277458#post277458 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:40:41 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277453#post277453 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277453#post277453 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:15:14 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277444#post277444 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277444#post277444 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B2YVI-RSHgk ]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:50:59 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277443#post277443 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277443#post277443 This is all a very round-about way of telling you all something: I’ve been working for Telecom. Well, alright, I’ve been working for Scoop...
One never graduates from The School of Hard Nokias...

]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:48:43 +1300 Lyndon Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277441#post277441 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277441#post277441 Just because it happened to be around today – Neil Gaiman repeatedly mentions the ‘changing the world’ thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Vpl8JoIiY

]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:36:46 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277440#post277440 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/up-front-whimsy-is-an-extra-5-cents-a-word/?p=277440#post277440 Discussion from blog post.

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