Posts by Charles Mabbett
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How about Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon?
Someone buy the man a copy of Nelson Mandela's autobiography.
Yeah right.
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Very funny, Rich. It was with irony that I noted the A&E doctor interviewed by Closeup is evidently Chinese. It appears Asians are employed to patch up the victims of Christchurch's weekend violence. I guess they have to do something as they don't get invited to the parties.
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The Closeup clip and the 'No Asians' reference to the text invitation can be viewed here:
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/1106383
It is a depressing snapshot of mainstream youth culture - violence, racism and binge drinking all coalescing into one anti-social mess.
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"no Asians" - a sad attitude all to prevalent among many New Zealand teenagers. I think Asian students would have done well to avoid this party but that's easy to say with hindsight.
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A forgettable world cup (or memorable for all the wrong reasons). Incompetent doesn't begin to describe it. Nice prose, Hamish.
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I would even go as far as to surmise that the Herald might even have run the piece on northern Sri Lanka being a new Darfur because someone there saw Keith's blog and pointed it out to the world desk editor.
(I'm assuming that you did approach the Herald, Keith) The issue is that if they had published a report by Keith they would have had to pay him for it (perfectly reasonable - freelancers can't be expected to do things out of pure altruism even if highlighting a burgeoning humanitarian tragedy).
The Herald evidently has a copyright and reprinting agreement with The Guardian and The Observer to use their stuff.
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Well one thing is for sure, Bingle, they seem to be missing their targets. D'oh!!
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Oh and another thing - does anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that Bob Woolmer's death may possibly not have been murder? Imagine the acute embarrassment of the law enforcement authorities when they come to that conclusion and have to announce it to the world's media. Stranger things have happened. I'm watching this space that's for sure. There's been an uncomfortable silence for a while now.
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Super blog. It has really identified a key issue about why (even though NZ are doing well) this World Cup has been extremely tepid (well, apart from the time zones that is). The crowds have been so thin in some of the matches, it looks as though the teams are playing in Sharjah.
Jonathan Millmow in the Dompost today identified a related issue: the 200 metre ICC-imposed security cordon around the stadium in Antigua "set up at a distance which apparently makes it effective against vehicles carrying bombs ... used to be an area where the locals would set up peanut and chicken stalls and beat out reggae music".
So what we have is a sparsely patronised tournament that has been nearly completely stripped of its domestic fan base and local flavour.
How long does it take for the 'Eureka! moment where the organisers come to the realisation that they need to fill the stadiums by bringing ticket prices down because the tournament is turning into an globally televised embarrassment. It must have been evident before the world cup began that ticket prices were in the realms of the absurd.
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Good stuff, Keith. It sounds as though you're getting into the place. Apart from your initial technical issues, there are lots of great photos there. But you should make it clear that the woman making dung patties (presumably for fuel for her cooking fire) would be using cow shit not human shit.