Posts by Jolisa
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You should ice your cake with both names, one on each side, and see which one goes quickest :)
Ooh, how cunning. A culinary exit poll! Alas, I had to bail on the cupcakes as we had a germy boy in the house. Didn't want pass it on to all the voters who bothered to come out in the rain today.
Oddly, there were signs for HIllary out the front of the school, but the Obama people had forgotten to plant theirs. It was only by *not* seeing one name that I really felt how powerful that last-minute nudge could be in favour of the other name... And the polls are showing them neck and neck in Connecticut.
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*coff* I was playing those chords in my head, and only hit a single black key in the whole bally lot of 'em. :P
Blimey, you're right. On a piano. Bust out the guitars everybody! Or we could just transpose it up a semitone and really mess with people's heads??
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chanting a catch-phrase from a British stop-motion kiddies show
Agreed! We've got big Bob fans in the house and they have found it no trouble at all to extend their allegiance to a guy who sounds just like Bob, albeit without the talking diggers.
You know what else, though. Bob the Builder has a rocking theme song. I defy you not to sing along with it. But Bob's is all in major chords, whereas the cool thing about will.i.am's setting of Obama's speech is that it moves from major through some minor keys and then back again. Check it out:
G, Bm, Em and C (repeat ad infinitum).
You've got a major opening, a surprising shift into the mediant minor, sinking into the relative minor of the main key, and then the bright subdominant, rolling back into the main chord. Nicely moving us through affirmation, unexpected yearning, a bolstering depth of complicated history, and then back into prayerful hope (with that final, looping IV-I plagal cadence being the definitive "Amen").
Even the bridge uses a major (C), its dominant (G) and its relative minor (A min). If you were getting really poetic you could argue that -- along with the B & W video - the music is making a subliminal statement about the new politics of race. Y'know, like beyond just ebony and ivory; the complex interdependence and mutually necessary relationship of major(ities) and minor(ities), etc etc.
I am such a music geek.
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Oh man. Björk and band flew 40 hours to get there and people booed the encore? Classy!
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The New York Times says Huckabee wins; Romney has conceded.
Also, Obama has pulled ahead by a couple of percentage points.
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But is he worried about the sky falling on his head?
Not so far, but he is developing a taste for wild boar. Or at least a yearning to taste wild boar.
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the aircraft carrier has to be wheeled into the garage due to high wind and rain.
Craig, do you have one of those mega-huge BBQ grills my friend calls the "Darth Vader"?
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Cheesecake... trifle... brandy cream! Cricket in the backyard! You lucky buggers. We successfully pulled together a last-minute feast - an insanely huge turkey of which we ate perhaps 10% and will parcel out the rest to friends.
And then the world's best ever pav. No fights about its origin (cheers Dale) but sustained debate about its destination. We manfully refrained from scoffing it all so we could eat the leftovers for breakfast this morning.
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Now that's what I'm talking about.
I want to hear more about the terrifying amounts of porn, or was it the amounts of terrifying porn?
I'm just keeping Speaker warm until they find a lesbian midget.
Maybe if you just sort of crouch down a bit? For my money a bisexual midget would be just as good. And a mainlander to boot.
there might be a whole bunch of you here not talking about it as well
Hazards informed guess: because you have to be a particular stripe of brave to use your real name for that stuff?
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they could be writing about fish or watermelons for all I care, as long as their sentences continue to sparkle
The inaugural Public Address theme challenge? 500 sparkly words on fish or watermelons - go!
Serious face on now: I agree with David H about the perils of tokenism. I don't want whoever joins the crew to worry that they got the job simply by virtue of not being a bearded Timaruan.
I assume PAS folk are sophisticated enough to welcome the new arrivals whoever they may be. If someone can make me laugh and think at the same time, I don't care whether they're a newly gay light-weight two-fingered ukulele-playing Ransome-reading Pakeha scientist from Christchurch or the exact opposite.
@Stephen: I would love to read a blog by "a Samoan solo mother or a Southland Baptist preacher, or anybody from Urewera." Maybe my appetite for more diversity here is to do with being so far from home, and craving a less homogenised perspective on current events?