Posts by Stephen Judd
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SebastiAn. *argh*
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Why yes, but I don't recall that scene where Sebastion languidly dons a blazer over his hoodie.
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In principle, I would like to dress in the stylish and mature fashion of the dapper Mr Beard.
In practise, this requires more labour, thought and expense than I am prepared to put into the enterprise of dressing, except on special occasions. My sartorial-foo manifests only in my extensive collection of novelty t-shirts.
Every now and then I think about getting two or three good suits, since then dressing would merely be a matter of changing underwear and picking a shirt. But nice suits are expensive, and hoodies are warm and practical for the balding.
APW: surely wearing a hoodie under a "nice sports coat" combines the worst fashion-crime elements of both garments.
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American? In my mind the identification of the hoodie with delinquent youth is mostly a UK thing.
(This 38 year old is wearing a hoodie at work right now, as are 2 of the other 9 people I can see.)
Equally, when you see that hoodies are a rational response to the rise of the surveillance society - one where we police our own behaviour just in case we might be seen by a CCTV camera - you can argue that every dedicated advocate of civil liberties ought to wear one. I'm sure Foucault would be wearing one right now, if he weren't dead.
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The problem with journalism in NZ, IMHO, is the prevalence of the “Look at me, look at me, look at meeeee” factor.
Eh, but Laws is only a journalist in the most literal "writes for a journal" sense.
I never thought I would miss Frank Haden, but I do. At least he had a decent prose style, a Johnsonian sympathy for the poor, and the ability to write a piece that wasn't wholly composed of non sequiturs glued together with insult.
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I would have thought being accepted into Harvard and Princeton would be hardly be evidence of discrimination, quite the opposite in fact.
It isn't evidence of anything on its own. The fact that one person made it doesn't yield evidence about the experience of the group; the fact one person made it doesn't tell you what obstacles that person faced.
the average American's experience
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What is the deal with referring to "Obama" (surname) but "Hillary" (first name)? That strikes me as highly suss too.
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"bars you adhere to"
I had to read that three times before I parsed it correctly.
Ewwww.
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It was a good show.