Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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cheers Robyn, heard from mike beggs lately? been trying to catch up after Dr John was back over hols
Do you mean Mike Carr? (I don't know a Mike Beggs) I haven't heard from Mike since 2003! I've tried searching but no luck, which seems a bit strange in this age of interwebbery.
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The Herald has a collection of reader comments. They're quite interesting to read through.
Some of my favourites:
"Called out to my husband in the other room to see if he felt it, but was playing xbox and thought it was the controller vibrating he felt."
"Was kinda hoping it was Wellington slipping into the ocean. Sad to say its still there"
"Our chandeliers also swayed back and forth, it was very frightening."
"Felt sharp jolt. Thought the volcano must have started but couldn't see anything from the deck. Let us know if it has. That'd be good. Ta."
And here's one for Reece:
We are situated on the 13th floor of Scene 3 Apartments, 30 Beach Rd situated in front of the ports of Auckland. We were sitting on the bed watching television when we felt a shudder run through the building from the lounge through to the bedroom. My husband was quite worried as he knows buildings such as this are not supposed to shake as such.
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Geonet (part of the EQC) has a report on the 'quake, and a form to fill in with your experiences.
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To quote Max Clifford, the UK PR wizard, yesterday:
"Obviously they knew exactly what was going on otherwise they wouldn't have allowed it. The whole thing was publicly arranged and publicly carried out. She wouldn't have just turned up and done this. Her PR managers would have known,"
I've been thinking about this quote, and I'm not convinced. If Britney's PR managers had been in on it, surely they would have tried really, really hard to talk her out of it, rather than make it public.
I mean, if Britney was dissatisfied with her crappy hair extensions, the best solution would have been to have had them redone, rather than shaved off.
Someone who is having drug/emotional/personal problems (especially ones relating to feeling lack of control) isn't necessarily going to vet all their crazy plans through their PR people.
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I was sitting on the couch and it felt like someone had lifted the couch up and was shaking it, but I could also tell that my entire rickety old 1930s flat was shaking too.
I get a fair bit of rumblings from living on a main arterial route, but it was much more rumbly than that.
And with a quickness, it was over. No dogs were barking, no alarms were bleeping. The traffic keep on rumbling past, and I thought, "Hm. I really should get my survival kit in order."
I'm sure most Wellington visitors would have been like "Pft! Woteva!"
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At primary school, a lady came along every few weeks and read us boring Bible stories and sang boring songs on an autoharp. She used to thump her foot for the rhythm, but got angry with us if we thumped too.
At intermediate, a guy from Youth For Christ would come along and do that über enthusiastic rhetoric about how great Jesus is. Life, you see, is like a lawnmower. Just as you need an instruction manual to use a lawnmower properly, so do you with life. And that instruction manual is called the Bible.
At high school there was no organised religious instruction, but once a friend took me along to the CIA (Christians In Action - oh, why do they always have such naff names?) group. The hot tech drawing teacher spoke of how he waited until he got married to have sex. We snickered.
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Maybe this will have a positive spin-off effect and reduce the amount of meths abuse in New Zealand.
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And she’s only 25.
For some perspective, when Madonna was 25, she had only just released her first album. She didn't turn into a megastar until, aged 26, her second album was released.
Britney, however, debuted with a worldwide number one single, aged 17.
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Thanks, Graham, for writing that. It was intelligent and thoughtful, and there's not a lot of that kind of writing surrounding Britney at the moment.
I've been thinking a bit about Britney and another famous baldy pop lady, Sinead O'Connor.
Sinead shaved her hair off when she was a young, budding pop singer because she felt her record company were pushing her to sex herself up. So as a skinhead, her voice and the songs she sang had to stand on their own, and indeed they did.
Britney however, doesn't have a strong a voice as Sinead. In fact, it could be argued that part of her overall talent as a pop star is her silky golden locks. So by shaving off her hair, she's removed part of what made her talented and famous.
I want to cheer Britney for what she's done, but I can't quite do that because she seems to be not quite right in the head and in need of some help. I just hope she gets better.
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The before-and-after example of the Epsom shops show a billboard on the side of a building. I'm OK with placing billboards there. It's not blocking any significant architectural features, and indeed it was flat surfaces like that where advertisements were painted on the olden days.
It's when billboards take up the front of (usually interesting, old) buildings that I don't like. Look at 223 Symonds Street - there's actually an old building under that giant Telecom billboard.