Posts by Morgan Nichol
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[...] the sort of tumour that you just leave in and keep an eye on.
Heeeeee. :D
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Point out Matt so I don't sexually harass or otherwise harangue him at the Christmas party.
He's the handsome one with a super lovely wife and adorable little children. Actually that doesn't really narrow it down with the CactusLads does it?
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Will the new version of the site give me the ability to go back in time and slap my cursor away from the Post Reply button?
That'd come in really handy.
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I don't know Emma either, but her piece certainly resonated with my own understanding of human nature. It's not clear to me if you're admitting to some kind of perceptual disability, or implying that all who responded positively to Emma's piece are somehow deluded.
Awesome. I knew I was wasting my fucking breath.
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My favourite had to be Moon, perhaps tied things up a little too cleanly for my liking, but it was a great story that defeated my expectations and prejudice time and again - and was made for stuff all money, all things considered. (i.e. you could only make ~20 NZ directors' first features with the budget, rather than the regular 200-400.)
Also really enjoyed Dead Snow. That sex scene. Oh my. (Surely she isn't going to... Eeee! NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO!)
Best Worst Movie was very good as well. I'm not really a fan of "movies so bad they're good" as generally they turn out to be "movies so bad they're, well, really bad", but enjoyed the doco for what it was, and have maintained my resistance to actually watching Troll 2.
It Might Get Loud was bloody good too - but only in parts, there was a whole artificial thing at its core which I didn't enjoy, but the more natural bits around the fringe were great. Jack White came across really bloody well to me, but some of the people I was with couldn't get past his creepiness.
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I was also shocked to learn recently there's a feedlot or two around the place.
Me too. Appalling and unnecessary. A dreadful shame, and hopefully - given that it's so alien to most of us - something that can be quickly done away with.
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And when the NBR is remotely comparable to the Wall Street Journal or The Economist, I'd be confident that the subscription model is going to work. Otherwise, if trad media are undergoing a crisis of viability and authority they've got nobody but themselves to blame.
Oh I don't mean to say I think it's going to work, Craig.
Just that he's right that most bloggers are shrieking morons, who don't even notice that they haven't got two facts to rub together, 'cos they're so proud of their huge piles of useless opinion and unfounded speculation.
That's all. :)
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So dinner and a movie later, and I really didn't expect this to be continuing.
Oh go away with the passive aggression. An apology immediately followed with suggestions about how to do things better. Good one.
You are mistaken.
Perhaps I will try to explain where I was coming from a little further, as much as it pains me to waste my time doing so.
Once upon a time I helped counsel groups of young men and boys in anger management classes with action education (part of YouthLine, though I don't know if it still exists, this was about 15 or 16 years ago), one of the many things we did was try to encourage the boys to own what they said. It's a very kiwi habit to say "you" when we mean "I", so we'd try to have them say "I'm frustrated when people do X" instead of "you're frustrated when people do X".
(Unfortunately once you notice this habit, it can't be unnoticed. If I've just reprogrammed you, well, join the club.)
These boys were, frequently though not universally (some of them really just seemed to be little shits by nature), victims of physical and sexual abuse. I remember one boy in particular - surly and aggressive, and just about as initimidating as a teenager can be - being encouraged to own his words (and thereby his thoughts), and this along with some very direct talk from one of the other counsellors, lead to tears, and a breakthrough - as it became clear that he had been (but wasn't presently being, as he had been moved out of his family home, and into a boys home on Richmond Rd) abused by his father.
It was this evasiveness of ownership in language that I felt I saw in Emma's post, and this is what I was intimating at in my too hasty comment. And it was for this reason, based on real life experience with victims of abuse, that I said that I thought it would have been more powerful if she'd owned her words rather than putting them on to me.
But just as you don't know me, or what is behind my words, I don't know Emma. I don't hear her voice in her writing, or have this implicit understanding of her tone that some of you claim to have. I don't know the first thing about how she lives her life. And clearly it turns out that what I said - as genuinely as I meant it - was misplaced.
So I apologised to her directly, and she has had the grace to accept me at my word.
Now please put away the pitchforks.
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Morgan, I found the speculation about Emma's motivations offensive. It seemed to be an attempt to diminish the significance of the point she was making. Perhaps you didn't mean to, but that's how it came across to me.
Then I apologise.
My suggestion was only meant to be that if she took ownership of the story (that I mistakenly thought was genuine) then it would have had more impact.
I didn't mean to piss on anyone.
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It's not my story.
It seemed, from other comments and your response to them, like this was your story. Until that, I figured it was a work of fiction, and now it seems that initial feeling was correct. (And this is, I think, why the story didn't really affect me.)
There's really no need to be so hostile.