Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to philipmatthews,
RIP Tom Newnham
Geoff Chapple on Newnham's life from a 2004 Listener book review.
Let’s take the leap and say that Tom Newnham was to New Zealand’s anti-Vietnam war, anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid years what Tom Paine was to the American Declaration of Independence – its letter-writer, pamphleteer, chronicler, analyst, activist and a strategist in what became a revolution.
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Matthew Poole,
You’re still framing this as purely beneficial to those working in the CBD. It’s not, and never has been, just about the CBD. It’s about the entire rail network, across the whole region
Exactly. Mentioned upthread #horsetowater
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Samuel Scott,
Black Francis coming out to the bar for wine afterwards took said blown mind and turned it into an awkward mush monster.
Did you talk to him? #royalty
Oh, and they were playing Buffalo on the AirNZ flight from Chch today. #royalties -
Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to James Bremner,
as the US is the world's sole superpower
too funny
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I forgot to nominate Lhaws for word of the year.
Bugger - me too
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to nzlemming,
You miss Rob, don't you?
The resemblance was beginning to strike me too #shudder
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I'm not sure you actually read anything anyone posts
You have to wonder. Like arguing with a bot, only less fun
It may pay to read
Good general advice
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Neil Morrison,
It is a fact
I'm not convinced you know what that word means
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Che Tibby,
who ever thought "bells + gunpowder = cannon"?
I like that
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See what Scotch does?
Here, I've poured you another one :)