Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Time to call "Time Gentleman, Please" on certain currents in this conversation?
I expect that Russell is preparing an exciting new posting for us, at the end of a very interesting week. In the meantime, I have my tickets for the Chiefs vs Brumbies tonight!
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I thought it was rather revealing when Sean Plonker and Geoff Robinson were wrapping up Morning Report this morning, around a discussion of twitter and tweeting; Geoff R. saying that you could post 146 words, then referring to himself, Plonker and Lynne Freeman as "three dinosaurs". You said it, mate!
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I think that the Families Commission has been showing its political colours for some time. A month or so back, it gave a bunch of money to John Terris (George Bush-lover and Lower Hutt reactionary) and his bunch of advanced-age alarmists in Media Matters, to go into schools to warn students about all the 'gratuitous sex and violence' on TV.
There was no consultation about the need nor the desirability of doing this.
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all that folk music from the 60's, like the Chad Mitchell Trio.
'Folk' in the sense that they had moving body parts?
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Geoff, I love the way True Blood weaves in the racial politics so skillfully.
We just luuurvvvv Lafeyette, the very stroppy, gay Black short-order cook.
Yikes--I better get back to my essay marking!
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actually an old 1950's song.
Originally sung by The Four Lads, along with all the other ghastly music my parents used to subject me to on National Radio in the old days (Red Sails in the Sunset; Shrimpboats are Acomin'--Patti Page and other horrors).
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Not comedy, Craig, but now you've got me thinking of True Blood.
I second that. The love story of Sookie and Bill the Vampire are universes and generations distant from Twilight (which my 15 year old daughter despises). It is all blood, sex, mayhem, sex and, somewhere in there, truly fascinating ideas.
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I think the Conchords would be improved if they ditched Murray and the whole NZ consulate thing, which detracts from the subtlety of Brett and Jermaine (and the whole 63 goldfish thing). They draw on the two essentials of classic narrative: The Odd Couple + Fish Out of Water. Murray is just an irritating twit.
Simon: you don 't get Seinfeld? Oh, dear!
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On the Topp Twins movie
It has just cracked the $1 million mark at the NZ box office. which is great for a doco. I have never seen the point of the Topp Twins myself (and yodelling, in my opinion, is a good argument for genocide), but they are much loved by many.
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Good to hear Philip Alpers back in the debate about gun control (he is on Nine To Noon this morning). I had wondered what had happened to him.
I do think attitudes to gun ownership and use have changed. One of the most useless 'skills' I acquired at secondary school in South Taranaki, was how to strip down and reassemble a Bren gun. I can probably could still do this, if I wanted to. I recall, in horror, memories of spotty 15 year olds firing live rounds with a Bren gun, in the name of 'education'!