Posts by Paul Litterick
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Wonder when a judge is going to get annoyed enough to charge a conniving legal/pr team for this type of public manipulation on behalf of their client? Or a media outlet for helping them do it?
Yes, yes, yes. The best part would be when the prosecution demanded Discovery - the right to see all the defendant's documents relating to the case. Then we might learn somethign of how the PR people and the media people connive to spin these stories.
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Am I the only one round here who used Internet in the 'eighties? When I went up to Nottingham University in 1983, I met Janet - the Joint Academic Network. Strictly speaking, she wasn't Internet but a private network of universities which plugged their Crays into one another.
And so I did Art History on a Cray plugged into a proto-Internet. I sometimes tell this to smug nerds when they boast about being Internet pioneers (as well as having a collection of Star Trek figurines way before anyone else). I particularly enjoy telling them the 'doing Art History' part: folks don't realise how Art Historians grasped the possibilities of Internet early on.
Am I also the only person alive who uses an apostrophe for truncated words like 'eighties or 'cello?
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The "I kissed a girl" link is here
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... talented online writers such as Stephen Judd, Idiot Savant, Don Christie, Paul Litterick, Robyn Gallagher, Craig Ranapia, Kracklite, Bart Janssen, Steven Price...
<blush>I'm IN</blush>
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Most Natty supporters I know aren't complete nutters.
Or at least they have some positive attributes.The same is true of most Nats whom I know, who are mostly embarrassed by Whaleoil's rantings.
I think it is a personality disorder.
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How does someone end up that warped?
He is the son of a former President of the National Party.
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I have no audio at the moment, so I can't play Media 7, but I do recall that you referred to our attitude to China and the Olympics as "happy, happy, joy, joy."
Surely this must be the first use of a Ren and Stimpy catchphrase in current affairs broadcasting history.
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According to John Key's unauthorised biography in the Herald, Albertine was the most recent CD he bought.
I think we should take that as a warning
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Yeah I've never really 'got' the whole Op-Shop thing... I remember going to an NZ music showcase a few years back that featured them alongside Brooke Fraser, Evermore and Katchafire... And I'll be honest: I was BORED.
Likewise. All of these acts are calculating: they have listened to a lot of music by other people and fashioned a style and an identity out of these influences. The fit neatly and smugly into genres, all the better for the music industry and the MOR radio stations. This is music to watch Stepford wives go by.
Myself, I shall be watching Lambretta Suede and the Motel 6 at the Thirsty Dog.
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What Lucy said. Sensing Murder is exploitative television, designed to work upon its audience's fear of crime, prurient interest in the lives of the victims and gullibility about those claiming magic powers. And it has been made with a million bucks of public money which had been granted to improve the quality of television. So we are all exploited by it.