Posts by Jolisa
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Gawd, Yamis - you're right. No laughing matter in Samoa.
Joe: what exquisite taste in humour.
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Anke Richter has written two books and is currently working on her third, a satirical novel about the perception and stereotypes of Germans in New Zealand.
I'm looking forward to reading that one! Will it appear in translation?
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Waiting for the live cross to Russell on the Cheviera with his trousers rolled up to his knees...
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Auckland and points south, I mean. (I was mainly talking to my bros, whose boogie board skillz are legendary).
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Blimey, Auckland. Get the boogie boards out! The backwash at Pt Chev will be...uh.. awesome-ish.
I love that original tweet. Not waving, but clowning.
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It's not just that medical costs are bankrupting people. It's also about the lengths to which people (often invisibly and dangerously) go to avoid being bankrupted and/or to keep their health insurance.
This is just one story, but one that really struck me.
(NB it's not Ariel Gore's own story, but one posted to her by another mother).
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Chiming in to echo Ben, and not just because he's my bro...
Thankfully, umbrage is something we don't often take in these forums, but if and when we do, I would think that People For Whom These Statistics Are Not Theoretical would be as well-respected hereabouts as Women Tired Of Being Reminded Ad Nauseam About Importance Of Procreating ASAP.
(These are not mutually exclusive categories, either.)
It also strikes me that a handy self-generated rofflenui style shorthand for "Yeah got that, thanks, ten thousand bazillion years ago, cheers" might nip in the bud those ungainly statements-of-the-obvious that, given our hair-trigger strategic defense initiatives, tend to devolve into threads-of-the-we've-been-here-before-why-are-we-here-again variety?
Let it be noted: I'm all about raising consciousness when it clearly needs raising, but sometimes those sleeping dogs are just tired little puppies and will nod off again if you ignore them.
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You're obviously not familiar with Bollard's erotic work.
Soon to be published, under the title Rising Bollards.
I can dream.
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is that slip worn over, or under, garments?
Definitely over for that early 90s grunge look, under for the corsetophiles among us.
Ceci n'est pas un very comfortable option (hessian?!) but it might work as an alternative sort of Foucauldian slip, for those who prefer their theory in the bedroom.
And who doesn't.
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Verily! I think we've just invented the Foucaltian slip.
Bravo, mon brave! But I'm not so sure it's not Saussure?
I wonder what particular combo of fingers and facial expression would constitute a "wistful sign." A gallic shrug?
(Which sounds like an item of clothing I'd buy, if they made them... oh look, they sort of do! I'll take three in different colours.)
Meanwhile, Malcolm McLaren joins our discussion in a timely fashion, or a fashionly time.