Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Lianne Dalziel would make a bloody good mayor IMHO
Minus 10. Great MP but not a mayor.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
it feels like the scene is being set for a no confidence statutory takeover
I will be surprised if the government does anything at this stage. What's in it for them? The council is acting as a lightning rod for the inevitable (if you follow psychologists' studies of post-disaster societies) discontent among the rabble, and is deflecting attention from the government. I'm not arguing the rights and wrongs of what's happening in the council, but observing that at the moment Bob Parker and Tony Maryatt are in the spotlight; if the government took over the glare would be on its appointee and the Cabinet Ministers.
And what happened when the Nats ecanned Ecan: the elected officials went but the council employees stayed; so that wouldn't get Maryatt out of the way.
Interesting problem for a government; best keep your head down, out of the line of fire and hope the council can sit it out until the next local elections toward the end of next year. I'll be fascinated to see if the Nats have any creative solutions to this one. maybe they can pull something out of the hat. -
I have only two questions about the CCC comms review: did Felicity Price or her company CPR have any input in any way into the work she will be reviewing? What are the parameters of the review (I assume they will be publicised given the council's new commitment to engage with the ratepayers)?
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Rob Stowell,
UB40?
Thanks Rob but no. Google tells me it was Toots and the Maytals. UB40 were there but I didn't see them.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Would that have been Taj Mahal, Hebe
Don't think so; I have a feeling it was a "name" not quite Marley but nearly (the name will come back, at 3 one random morning). It was all Big Fun , and that's the thing about any good festival whatever your part is: big fun for grown-ups.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Went to Sweetwaters
What year was the one with some big reggae-type group? The pictures rifled my memory -- first time I'd thought of Sweetwaters for years. For me it was more about the adventure than the music that time. Me and my ex drove up from Wellington with trucks full of food to do a food stall. A Kesey-ish stoner disaster hoot of a week with a heap of friends. We christened our stall "Palate Palace" the first two letters fell off to make it "Late Palace" and that said it all. The music was great, what we heard of it from afar; I don''t remember mud.
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Being terminally nosey I googled Debbie Barber, GM communications at EQC. I found her blog. Here is an entry, which may give an insight why EQC comms are so awful and the attitude to the media they take. I am hot on this because a very frustrating part of many bothers the populace encounter every day are due to inadequate and incompetent attempts at communication from EQC. In other words : tell us what is happening, really, not the PR sanitised version.
In the days when daily journalism was a profession you could be proud to belong to a good reporter was regarded as someone who had a nose for news. They could sniff out a good story at one hundred paces.
Whatever they're sniffing now is as foul as a hairy trucker's armpit, as smelly as a piece of roquefort found in an ancient Languedoc cellar or as stinky as the breath of a rat dining on the recently discarded remains of a fast food restaurant's fat fryer.
Reporting, for a start is now a misnomer. They don't report any more - they make up the news and broadcast to the nation as "fact".
Two particularly galling examples in the past week could not pass without comment.
The first when the recent royal nuptials were compared in historical moment to man landing on the moon and the bride's sister's derriere was a story all in itself.
The second was the coverage of the death of Osama Bin Laden.
We were originally told he was a coward who hid behind his wife's skirts and then that story changed to her standing in front of him fully armed to neither of them being armed or showing aggression.
A so-called reporter rooted through the pantry and medicine shelf. In all seriousness he told us about the jar of vaseline, the eye drops and an unidentified product he personally took to a pharmacist who identified it as nasal spray.
Then there was a story about whether photos of what's left of his bullet-blasted face should be published to prove he is actually dead.
I seriously worry for the world when this is what we are being served up as news.
It's as plain as the nose on your face that something's rotten in the state of journalism.Posted 5th May 2011 by Debbie Barber
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The presentation is astounding in its negative application of caricatures. Just what relationships will this improve? Hang your head in shame Debbie Barber, whoever you are.
As someone formerly in the the game for many years, I find it mindbending that a comms "expert" and her managers think this will help anything other than send the policy-making EQC staff further into their bunker while the frontliners cop the fall-out.
BTW I am very satisfied with my EQC experience so far (emergency repairs and heating), so much so I emailed the brass to tell them so, But their self-satisfied, Wellington-centric, patch-protecting bullshit must stop. There is a a lot of grumpiness with bureaucracy in all its foul forms in Christchurch.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
As in <insert 50/60/70 year old rocker here>'s spent his pension and needs more drug money. Book him for the BDO.
And then book him for the "Top-up-the-pension-and-must-get-to-that-little-place-past-Australia-before-I-die" tour to follow BDO. BDO has died because it has become the Old Boiler Room.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Nora Leggs,
First time one of my cats died I was stunned by the intensity and duration of the grief.
I agree, though pet grief (cats and black labradors) has been an unalloyed, pure grief for me. There is no sorting through the human-ness of the loved ones and one's family with a pet; it's just plain sad.