Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Alastair Jamieson,
drinking a lot of late night coffee at ‘Just Desserts’ in a building accessed off the stairs in Khartoum Place
divine apple cake, and conversation with Jack Henderson
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Paul Williams,
I agree, Paul - and should have made that clearer.
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Crikey, the urge to suck up to the man is strong in that Nathan Field. He’ll fit right into NZ’s lax corporate scene. Must be a surprise to Restaurant Brands and Starbucks head office that the coffee-drinking public are on average smarter than our champions of enterprise. And that Russell’s analysis here is way more on the mark than Gareth Morgan’s lackey can muster.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
if this was an open secret around Auckland
Most locals didn't care - the Herald's readership is slumping for a reason.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Paul Williams,
I'd not thought him in that group
The sports show "A game of two halves" had both Devlin and Veitch as hosts and consistently promoted a rude, boorish 'lads' culture with a nostalgic disrespect for diversity that saw itself as "anti-pc".
That's probably the connection with Paul Henry and we'll no doubt see a lot more of it proudly paraded in this RWC year. Our international visitors will be as impressed as Anna Farris was.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to BenWilson,
The whole thing about catching up with Ozzie gives me the shits. It's like trying to keep up with the wealthy neighbor on your street, who has already paid off their house. Unless they fuck up badly, or you have sudden wealth, it's not going to happen.
Great analogy, Ben.
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Muse: The High Aesthetic Line, in reply to Deborah,
the thrilling, rumbling awe produced by the battle cruiser flying over my head still stounds me. It was absolutely marvellous, and nothing in movie special effects has matched it since. It was the shock wave of an entirely new approach to making movies.
Hyperbole, I suppose. But it's hard to capture just how remarkable that first sequence in Starwars IV was.
+1
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Muse: The High Aesthetic Line, in reply to Mark Graham,
Star Wars targeted at children? I thought wide age appeal is one reason it made so much money
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Muse: The High Aesthetic Line, in reply to Ngaire BookieMonster,
I have no idea how to embed these things
You just paste the whole link (including the http at the beginning) into your comment and the site does the rest automagically.
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Muse: The High Aesthetic Line, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Steve Gray has a scathing review of Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Do you reckon he's read the book (or knows there is one, or who wrote it)?