Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
But they are my comments….
Yeah, but you have to go with my judgement because it’s my house. And if things are wrong it always comes back to me.
I didn’t want to just delete the comment because it was saying something, but that one small part was going to be a problem.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Sacha,
Thanks Sacha. Your responses were certainly part of the problem in the thread and I appreciate you acknowledging that.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Hi Steve. I edited a par out of the comment above. It was a bit tone-deaf.
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Actually, this raises a question: what became of Cha Cha? Who owns that archive, which must also include some significant photographic work?
I'm presuming Shake!, Murray's pop mag (which I think I can claim credit for naming), is considered part of Rip It Up's IP.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good News, in reply to Alfie,
Back in the early 80s I had an edit suite in Darby St., on the corner of Queen St. Myself and another editor called Dave Coulson shared the space with the venerable John Maynard who produced some excellent movies back in the day, Vincent Ward’s Vigil and The Navigator amongst them.
Oh! I didn’t know David worked there. We met years later via our children. For a while, I took a small office there that had been vacated by Geoff Steven. I was going to work on personal projects or something. It was cool having space, but I never really did much with it.
John was formerly director of the Govett Brewster Gallery so we had Rick Killeens on the wall and a veritable procession of contemporary NZ artists passed through. It was a seriously creative space. And the floor upstairs was occupied by the guys from RipItUp. Damn… I used to love that mag.
And of course there was Denis Cohn gallery just up a few steps. When I was there, the floor above was Snake T-Shirts, then Rip It Up was in the loft. That was also where Cha Cha, edited by Ngila Dickson, was published.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to ,
No coffee ?
A large mug mug of Twining's Lemon Zest (which has disappeared from every known supermarket but Gilmour's, where it's permanently on special), then breakfast, then one coffee. All sitting at my computer.
Speaking of which, I'll try not to spend too much time at my computer today. I have to work tomorrow and it's Fiona's birthday today. Cheers all.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Cheers for that Bart.. very interesting. I’ve found that starting the day with a bowl of oatmeal and yoghurt seems to be very beneficial for my overall digestive wellbeing (sorry, TMI).
Same. I made a conscious effort to improve my breakfast diet a couple of years ago, and it's muesli, yoghurt and two or three kinds of whatever fruit's cheap most mornings. It really helped a lot. One also becomes attuned to the price of kiwifruit.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
A question for both of you. Do people on the spectrum tend to want have more diverse or less diverse diets?
I would have guessed they’d prefer more predictable (less diverse) eating habits. If that’s true you might predict they’d have less diverse gut biomes. I guess my feeling from what I’ve read thus far is I’d probably be inclined to treat gut problems now by adding to the diet rather than subtracting – that is very much a personal guess though.
As Hilary says, it’s not as simple as choosing. Believe it or not, colour can be a big factor in acceptability. Our older son has a relatively “normal” diet (he struggles hard to get salads down, on account of texture), while our younger son has a very limited, bready diet (mainly pizza with cheese, olive oil and garlic, but not sauce; cheesy bagels; Nutrigrain; milk). It’s not ideal, but eventually you realise a war on your kid’s nature is not ideal either. Sometimes we get him to take a supplement, but swallowing those is hard.
So adding to the diet is hard. Suggestions on covert (not in the sense that we’d lie to him, just easily acceptable) diet diversity are very welcome.
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But hey, I've just been sitting outside reading Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker on Philip Norman's new Paul McCartney biography.
It's a stunning piece of writing, imo.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good News, in reply to Alan Perrott,
Nice I, um, found a copy of Abba's 'SOS' at the bric-a-brac place at the Surrey Crescent shops ...
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