Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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Blimmin' hell. I can't believe I've started a discussion about gender politics in The Room of all things.
It's Public Address System. If you're not turning every single subject - no matter how fun and whimsical - into a joyless discussion about gender politics you're not using it properly.
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Generally when people say something is so bad it's good they're less than half right. I'll watch Best Worst Movie, but I won't watch Troll 2.
I see what you're saying - the 'so bad it's good' routine is mostly just a stupid hipster affectation. But The Room is different. It's a genuine phenomenon and if you miss it you're depriving yourself of a really enjoyable experience.
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Oh, and Tommy Wiseau gives tips on shooting a 'sex tape'.
The sex scenes mostly consist of Wiseau's muscular, pitted ass filling the screen as he thrusts up and down in slow-motion to awful R & B music while grunting like a dying ox, with his pelvis positioned somewhere above his co-performer's transverse colon.
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This is, of course, all just a run-in to this week's round of explaining stuff to Kerre Woodham
I'm a Deborah Hill-Cone fan myself.
Sometime in the last year the declining quality of the Herald's columnists made the transition from offensive to hilarious.
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Exit through the gift shop is pretty great.
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And now, it's hard not to think that the reins should be handed to someone who wants the job less -- and thus stands a better chance of getting it done before the entire country is sick to death of it.
Sounds like another job for Joyce. I've always been bemused by the way National's 'Prince of Darkness', strategic mastermind and media guru stumbles from one easily avoidable public relations disaster to the next.
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To be fair to the Herald, it's doubtful that a Minister or Press Sec would brief them on this and there's nothing about it on Kiwiblog or WhaleOil - how would you expect them to find out about it?
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As a biologist I don't really understand why the Greens are opposed to genetic engineering but not chemical genetics (where you force mutations) or top-down proteomics (where you look for mutation markers in the wild and then combine mutations to breed new strains). Both of these other technologies are subject to the same (rather silly) criticisms as GE ('a corporation might do something evil!, 'we can't put the genie back in the bottle!'). It also seems strange that there's opposition to modifying the DNA of existing organisms but little or none to synthetic biology which involves the creation of completely new ones.
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'What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?'
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I've seen the stats for the fairfax blogs - some of them get more visitors than any blogger in the country except DPF. So while its true that they're unknown by most of the blogosphere they're certainly 'top bloggers' in terms of audience size.