Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Part of the problem might be the terms. If you talk about reportage - of primary sources and events and investigation and so on - and compare it to commentary you might get further. For instance, any idiot can do commentary and many do, whatever the medium.
Clifton seems taken aback by the idea of people having to evalute the credibility of an information source and their material.
Or maybe she has the idea blogs, being able to be read by anyone, are somehow implicitly claiming to be like newspapers.
Either way: Huh?
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Avoid Masterfoods Creamy Guacamole Style Dip.
Contains 1% avocado.
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There's a place outside Taupo where you can fish for prawns on with bamboo rods. Our group didn't catch all that many but I seemed to vaguely have the hang of it. I was the prawn king. A prawn star.
They did make it obvious when you pulled them out of their warm pond and dropped them in iced water that this was no a place they wanted to be. And they took their time to stop twitching too. A piece I saw somewhere about the ethics of boiling lobsters alive - the certainly have the sensory apparatus to be very senstive to temperature - make me concerned about this. I tell myself prawns give the impression of basically being marine insects, but I'm not sure that holds up.
Anyhow, we didn't really end up with enough for a feed, so we got a few frozen ones too. That chewy texture - it's the freezing.
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Baccalau! I had salt cod at a place in Lisbon, baked over sliced potatoes in a way that involved quite a bit of olive oil. Hooray for eating in a place full of locals.
Ordinary cod as found down here is good too.
Right this second I'm gonna back tuna sushi over salmon. This could change.
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Since I've started thinking about Sensing Murder et al, I've always wanted to see someone do a double-blind version.
Lock the medium and the presenter up in a room with a photo and a map and so on. Eventually it transpires the presenter has no idea who the photo is of either.
I'm available to work this up into an episodic sketch.
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If it helps with China, the NZ Red Cross inquiry centre is on standby in case something disastrous happens in Beijing.
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the Ann Coulter of the fundamentalist left?
Duncan Sarkies did do a lovely bit in one of his shows, started something like
I went to a rally, I saw Naomi Klein speak and she is hot...
... and expounded on this infatuation for a couple of minutes to the tune of Rebel Yell.
He apologised for it in advance.
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FWIW Greg Palast says you can read the approach of the iraq occupation as a competition between the shiny neocon type after the free market paradise and the US oilmen who would be happy to pillage but are content with the whole thing being a roiling mess. Different sides lead at different moment and Cheney is sort of both.
I'll also mention one of the more impressive points I got from the Rough Guide To Conspiracy Theories: the people who told the world the Soviets had more bombers than the US and then, when that was debunked, had more bombs, are literally the actual same individuals that told the world Iraq had all those weapons of mass destruction. That kind of makes it look deliberate.
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While I'm linking, photographer Polixeni Papapetrou of Austarlia's most famous naked six-year-old will be at Wintec next month for their Spark festival if anyone want her angle on that business.