Posts by Emma Hart
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Hard News: A work of art called Chimney Book, in reply to Kris V,
Hey Kris, you can consider that completed and distributed through my networks. Fabulous.
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I'd recommend watching Chimney Book full-screen in a quiet environment. If you have been living with the earthquakes, as Blair and his family have, it may trigger some powerful emotions.
Srsly. As we know, I eat candied puppies for fun, and Chimney Book made me cry in public.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Despite scoring a spectacular reduction in Labour's Chch Central majority last election she's obviously resigned to remaining a list MP.
To be fair, that wasn't because people Just Loved Nicky Wagner, it was because people had really liked Tim Barnett, who wasn't running.
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Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to Rich Lock,
Oi, can’t you just stick to ‘Hart’s Rule’-ing your own threads?
Okay, fine, I found a SFW version. It also enables the decoding of my most recent tattoo.
Carry on, I'll stop thread-jacking now.
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Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
And not at the armory in San Francisco? NSFW! By a factor of N! I just typed the link, i didn’t click it. Be warned!
Heh. This is not how I thought kink.com was going to get linked here.
As an aside: a leather pride flag? One learns something new every day.
yuh-huh. (That's a link to a factual Wikipedia article, but it still may be NSFW.)
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Up Front: One, in reply to Lilith __,
Also I think it’s different on a bike.
This. I couldn't put my finger on it, but there is a qualitative difference between being on a bike or on foot, and being in a car.
ETA: don’t know if it’s OK to put the photo here. If not, I quite understand.
It's a lovely photo. The reflection of the portaloo in the window is a nice touch.
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Up Front: One, in reply to BenWilson,
but I guess I’m asking whether it’s actually a counterproductive attitude, however understandable. People might follow that message, and go home. Or even just not come in the first place. Is that actually better or worse for the place?
Ben, I'm talking about people living in quiet residential streets tucked away in the worst-hit areas, having cars driving past shaking their houses, kicking up liquifaction silt, and being stared at by total strangers - other people who also live in Christchurch. And you know what? I think those people are qualified to assess the cost-benefit of their own situation, thanks.
And yes, there are people in the West who haven't driven over, who haven't seen it, who haven't taken on board the reality. But all you need to do to understand both the scope and the uneven distribution of the damage is drive from the airport, down Fendalton-Bealey-Fitzgerald and if you still don't get it, Linwood Ave and out to Sumner or Ferrymead. A friend of mine is planning to come down soon, and we will go pick her up, because I do not want her doing that drive by herself. You can "get" Avonside by driving down Fitzgerald Ave, you don't have to crawl around River Rd pointing.
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Up Front: One, in reply to BenWilson,
After September, Someone was running bus tours through Avonside. That's disgusting. And in residential areas, having people drive really slowly through your streets rubber-necking at your house? Is horrible. Lots of streets had signs up saying things like "If you don't live here, go home."
The central city, though, is completely different. That belonged to all of us, and it's not intruding on anyone's privacy.
And yeah, Sacha, that photo Jolisa linked to is what it's like, except for most of the CBD, there's nothing like the Bridge of Remembrance, the landmarks that let you work out where you are. Our city is being removed from our mental maps.
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Up Front: One, in reply to Russell Brown,
All those things that don’t show up on TV, like not having your local shops now.
We got a supermarket back three weeks ago, and about the same time, a Mad Butcher and accompanying greengrocer replaced our Raewood Fresh. Which is a bit of a downgrade, but meant we didn’t have to go to Moorhouse Ave for food, which was a help. But that’s how long it took. Even for us, having proper transport, it was a PITA.
After I got back from the Great Blend, my purple dress needed dry-cleaning. Know how many dry cleaners are left in the eastern suburbs? I’ll give you a clue. It’s less than one.
I was shocked how bleak things were.
I find the sense of bleakness increasing with the demolitions. In some way, the bare concrete is worse than the broken buildings. From the building where my partner used to work, there are about three buildings still standing on the entire block. It’s a wasteland.
Plus, it’s one of the few places Emma and I have never been kicked out of.
QFT. Though we are much better at getting chucked out in Wellington than in Christchurch. I blame Megan myself.
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Up Front: One, in reply to recordari,
I was saying on Megan's blog that I find I don't really know how to engage in this conversation, because I cannot speak for anyone else's experience. For people who live here, it's ranged from minor inconvenience to total devastation and everything in between. One thing I loved about the PAS threads in September and February was that people who weren't here were still okay with talking about how it had affected them.
And it's not even what actually happened where you were, but how you reacted emotionally. All my boxes are still under my bed. But in June, when I came in from the garden covered in grass and mud and bits of lemon and faced the simple prospect of picking my house up off the floor again? I gave up. If not for my daughter I'd have just sat on the floor and cried. I'm probably coping less well now than I was in May.
But the mere "still giving a fuck" is kind of nice.