Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festive and Unconflicted, in reply to Matthew Goody,
They managed to get Oasis, but let’s not forget Labour also tried to recruit Pulp and Jarvis Cocker which didn’t go so well.
Not only music. According to the author of this rather interesting parody they co-opted public sculpture as well. Perhaps that's why Christchurch has been "gifted" an Antony Gormley statue.
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July 1980;
As I was leaving the Ramones show at the Logan Campbell Centre, which I'd experienced from the seated senior citizen comfort of the upstairs section, I met the illustrious Murray Cammick, who'd photographed the event from the seatless downstairs mosh pit.He described how he'd seen a boot boy pulling a young woman's hair on the dance floor. Because he recognised the guy as a former pupil from his time as an art teacher he yelled at him to let go, calling him by his surname. Although the guy appeared to be totally out of it he instantly reverted to schoolboy mode and obeyed.
When the young woman thanked him he explained that it wasn't a big problem because he used to teach the guy. Oh really, she said, so what did you teach him then, kung fu?
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Speaker: Stand Up for Women, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Turns out the self-appointed hyper-masculinist is actually a mummy's boy.
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Speaker: Blinded by the white, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Tahu Potiki used to have a column in The Press, but I can't find any recent ones past mid-to-late last year - perhaps he disappeared with 'the improvements' that have been made...
Destiny Church apologist Potiki's sidelining seems to have happened in parallel with hereditary Rogernome James Caygill's elevation from Ngai Tahu property manager to virtual Tangata Whenua.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to raena,
some of us are sitting back on our heels and making out like it's all some mysterious external force at work.
And some, having discerned a cancer in the public breast, have happily set about nurturing it.
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to Alfie,
"The Fickle Muslim" - not likely to challenge Steve Bell's Mutton Mine for all-time greatest cartoon video game title, but very nice nonetheless :)
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Labour leader Andrew Little would not outline possible sanctions or comment on whether Mr Shearer could be stripped of his foreign affairs portfolio.
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Access: The Blue Inhaler, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
...if the proponents of buteyko are claiming to be able to 'cure' anything it is the bad habit of mouth breathing.
They'll be getting no support from the Trump/Palin camp then.
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Hard News: Music: All this and some…, in reply to kw,
He accepted an OBE in 1988, so he wasn't entirely unrecognised. I was more surprised that he doesn't seem to have been an arts foundation laureate - not as far as I can tell, but their site doesn't seem to have a search option.
Brickell seemed to have little use for the NZ arts establishment, especially dealer galleries. At one time the nearest he had to an Auckland "dealer" was a guy who ran a Saturday morning car auction, where you could pick up a choice piece while haggling for a set of wheels.
This wonderful pic just posted.
