Posts by Lilith __
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typo: three ting circus
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I must admit a great fondness for the Giorgio Moroder score in the 1984 re-release of Metropolis.
Although I'm sure a live orchestra would be amazing!
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Hard News: Presentation and Reality, in reply to JacksonP,
Like this tripe
Oh, gods. Firstly, ewww! Secondly, WTF?!
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Joe Wylie,
the apparently frivolous normalities do count for something in terms of people’s emotional needs.
I think it’s more than that, though; it’s also the fighting spirit that says, “The hell with earthquakes, we need our customers’ loyalty cards!!”
Yes, there are other things we no doubt need more. But I admire the gesture. :-)
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To briefly swerve back on topic, I’ve just been through City Mall and the Central Bus Station for the first time. Standing in the Mall seeing how miraculously tidy and normal it looks, it was all I could do not to burst into tears. I even loved Ballantynes’ Christmas Shop, which normally I loathe with a passion. Ballantynes’ cosmetics hall looks, if such a thing were possible, even slicker than it was before. I stood there amongst the impeccably gleaming marble and glass while the perfectly-presented shop assistant rang up my purchase and told me about climbing out over rubble cut and bruised, and about how staff had come in after the quake and rescued things like the cosmetics customer loyalty cards, for heavens sake.
The bus station is also deeply awesome. And the all the restored bus services.
And I looked through the fence at the red zone (there was a man putting plastic windows in the fence while I was there). There’s an abrupt transition between the shiny and normal and the deserted rubble-strewn wasteland. But I’m proud that we’ve pushed back the wasteland a little bit.
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to JacksonP,
Aww. ;-)
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Sacha,
:-D
[someone want to finish that limerick?]
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to JacksonP,
Hah!! I'll invert *you*, Mr JacksonP!
[yeah, that's all I got]
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Sacha,
Muphry's Law
excellent
I just posted about this on Facebook, only I misspelled it, and then I pointed out my misspelling and in doing so misspelled misspelling.
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
am NOT enjoying all the bloody fireworks outside, Shirley is like a war zone and the cats are flinching at every new salvo…
Opawa too. My cat was attacked by dogs last weekend and the combination of loud thumps and bangs plus every dog in the neighbourhood barking like crazy is not causing happiness!