Posts by Russell Brown
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Tom Beard,
Given that the word "sport" originates in the Old French desporter, "to divert, amuse, please, play", that would indicate that an abstinence campaign would have to be the most anti-sport gesture one could make.
Especially given that a certain part of sports-watching is the sublimated sexual thrill of watching fit young people in not-very-many clothes. I went to Warriors games with an old friend both before and after he came out, and formed the strong impression that watching rugby league while gay was just that bit better.
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I did quite enjoy watching Hilary Barry, John Campbell and Mike McRoberts acting out the surprisingly common news journalist’s fantasy of being a sports pundit on the first ep of One off the Ruck. It’s a pleasant novelty hearing sport discussed by people who can form complex sentences.
Maori Television’s Sin Bin looks like it’ll be fun too.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Ngaire BookieMonster,
On the RWC front I’m just really, really bored with media turning it into an ongoing series of “Look How We F*ck Everything Up”. Can’t we just be idiotically excited enough to feel good about ourselves for a couple of weeks?
You'd think.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
And I don’t deserve a dram by way of thanks?
Bags you have the grappa.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to David Hood,
I thought it would mutate into the Rugby World Cup PR crisis of the day thread (today’s being the Webb Ellis Trophy replica story).
Oh, I’m sure the 7pm current affairs shows will do an extremely thorough job of covering that highly important issue …
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Dammit, I've now had to cheer myself up by impulse-purchasing the "delicately light, sweet and malty" Glenfarclas 10 year-old and the dark and thunderously peated Adelphi 'Breath of Islay' 11 year-old.
You see what you've made me do?
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to James Francis,
Here are a few.
Yup, saw those. The first two are from 2007, and the slogan on the end of the last one is "Adidas is all in", which doesn't really amount to the kind of overbearing compulsory cultural nationalism being described.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
And the insistence of a lot of supporters that it’s not all about the rugby (cultural festival! visitors! fireworks! magical downstream economic returns!) belies that. In fact it is all about the rugby. The cultural festival and all those other things are being subsumed by the sport in the name of the national interest.
And I'm sure you'd have have managed to conjure equivalent outrage if they hadn't been happening at all -- clearly, there is nothing that does not prove your point.
But could we perhaps not further patronise or insult the people from Whangarei to Invercargill who are actually getting involved in these events, and who are looking forward to their cities being host centres?
I will grant you that I have an interest in this, given that NZ On Screen will be showing New Zealanders their screen heritage with a traveling cinema (a rather stylish caravan) that tours the South Island, and installations in the fan zones in Auckland and Wellington. It has not been "subsumed" by the rugby -- it's happening because of the rugby.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Not readily, no - but you've seen them. More than just a game, our all is nothing without your something-something, I'm sure you can dig them up.
Okay, I tried. Couldn't find anything from Adidas matching that description.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to BenWilson,
and one game attendance, just to see what it's all about, and because there's a warm spot in my heart for both Fijians and Samoans. My whole neighborhood is going to be there.
And me and Fiona and our friends and recordari. Let's organise!