Posts by Dan Slevin
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It was quite simply, breathtaking. And yes, I have the video saved on my youtube account.
I bought the DVD. Two hours of it (plus three ODI innings from that same tour).
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have been able to quote John Huston ever since
Huston or Houseman?
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Medieval football (still played in a few places)
Bog snorkelling
FencingEven better, Farnarkeling:
In essence, Farnarkeling is engaged in by two teams whose purpose is to arkle, and to prevent the other team from arkeling, using a flukem to propel a gonad through sets of posts situated at random around the periphery of a grommet. Arkeling is not permissible, however, from any position adjacent to the phlange (or leiderkrantz) or from within 15 yards of the wiffenwacker at the point where the shifting tube abuts the centre-line on either side of the 34 metre mark, measured from the valve at the back of the defending side's transom-housing.
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Also recommended is the just released children’s illustrated book of the lyrics of Forever Young.
On the subject of "Forever Young", the most emotional I have been in a cinema this year was watching the oldie choir in Young @ Heart singing that song for a group of prisoners. You had to mop me up afterwards. The film opens at Xmas - don't miss it.
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And it was not a donation according to that TVNZ story:
Glenn says that without a personal approach he would not have made the loan.
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I heard it was because the library needs more storage space...
They say they need storage space but they were also claiming the seats and projection equipment despite the fact that they were bought and paid for by the current operator.
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council officials having such a low opinion of elected councillors that they just please themselves.
Rumour has it that rogue Council officials are trying to close the Academy Cinema so they can have (I don't know) a cinema of their own?
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assembled outside the comedy club
... coincidentally a former City Council owned porno cinema itself.
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The local iTunes Store now sells ($24.99 for recent releases, $12.99 or $9.99 for catalogue titles) or rents ($6.99) movies. The sales chart is presently topped by the witless 2007 action flick Shooter. It will have the so-easy-to-spend-your-money iTunes smoothness, but I'm not yet moved to go and buy the cable that lets me plug my iPod into the TV. Apart from anything else, I already have a very good device for playing digital video into my television: the Playstation 3.
But if you have an Apple TV you can rent or buy in HD - which effectively means I have a new box in the corner for no extra cost. And even at this early stage there are some interesting options: All The President's Men, The Missouri Breaks and the fantastic The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. They are a third the cost of a Blu-Ray disc to purchase (and actually none of those are on Blu-Ray yet) and only a fiver to rent. I can see myself renting one a week, easy.
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Now, if I found out that the timing devices in the athletics were incorrect; or that the diving board wasn't the correct height
or the 100 metres track was only about 100 metres long.
Oh, sorry, that was Sydney.