Posts by Russell Brown
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I want there to be a Pride Parade every year for ever. It was just a lovely day.
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Hard News: Friday Music (on a Thursday):…, in reply to Paul Kennedy,
You’d be mistaken Russell. Artists and labels can, and frequently do, submit Bandcamp sales for the national charts (Official Top40 and IMNZ). As @Peace’s team have done this week… so expect a pretty good showing on the charts on Monday.
Thanks for that, Paul. I've updated the post accordingly. I'm also really pleased that's the case.
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Hard News: Friday Music (on a Thursday):…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I loved Sharon O’Neill. To young women at the time, me anyway, she evoked glamour and cool and elegance of a very down to earth variety. Shark tooth earrings were the height of sophistication.
She was cool. And I think it was unusual at the time for a young woman to be writing and performing her own songs.
I'm also pretty sure that a free gig she played outside Christchurch Town Hall was the first gig I went to with my friends.
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If you can bear it, Whaleoil has a quote from Prosser's book that rather makes a nonsense of his belated apology.
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Hard News: Friday Music (on a Thursday):…, in reply to JacksonP,
ETA: Although there is a nagging question; If you’re going to go to all that trouble, why not just get Bowie to do it? Still good.
In this case, because a car manufacturer paid Beck to create it ...
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Hard News: Friday Music (on a Thursday):…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Keyword: saxophone.
Feeling fear.
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
My weirdest airport security experience was in Canberra, heading to a domestic flight to Melbourne the day after the delivery of the federal budget. I was pulled aside for a not-really-voluntary (i.e. you can decline, but you’ll be escorted from the airport by security if you do) “bomb residue test”. I’m sure scores of banking and mining lobbyists slept easier that night.
My last trip to the US was a delight. In retrospect, I think I was flagged on entry (after an angry and bewildering grilling about my intentions) because I was travelling on a very fresh passport. On top of the usual rigmarole, I was invited to stand in the bomb-residue perspex box, where I had instructions shouted at me while I was peppered with jets of compressed air.
Disposable lighters had also recently been banned -- so there were smokers standing outside the airports looking to give away their lighters before they went through the gate.
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Interesting Waikato Times editorial compares Prosser to former National MP Bob Clarkson and says “Prosser apparently aspires to pick up where Mr Clarkson left off.”
You may recall that Clarkson declared that Muslim women wearing burqas, who did not want to fit in should “go back to Islam or Iraq”. He also had problems with women and non-heterosexuals.
To be fair, Clarkson has now abandoned National. He joined Act in 2011.
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Cecelia,
An MP. If you look at Prosser’s work history, he gained the lowest number of votes in every previous election he entered and finally gained a political position on the NZ First list. How could they? How could they?
Because they're a shambles. I'm presuming they did little or no due diligence on Brendan Horan also. And because NZ First voters traditionally have no clue who the hell they're voting in when they vote for Winston.
