Posts by Damian Christie
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Capture: Walk across the rooftops., in reply to JacksonP,
Screw yer photos, Blue Nile? I think I just found some musicks I haven't heard before and very much like. Thanks.
Awesome work on the photo blog btw. As someone who has struggled over the years uploading lots of pics to PA using awkward html that never quite works properly the first time and the links are always broken and uploaded photos don't appear and the perspective gets stretched because it has to be a certain width and I can't do the required maths in my head... it's nice that it's so much easier these days.
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Oh god.
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Or just have this going on your computer when they walk past...
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@RB - I remember working for Radio Liberty, and that great hero of freedom, Dave "I fought the taxman" Henderson wouldn't pay us. And then would lie to us about having paid us. Such a great intro to the perfect libertarian society, chasing some rich c**t for my minimum wage.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to BenWilson,
Somehow I was so much more of a breadhead when I was a kid.
Totally. As a 13 year old Alex P Keaton was my hero. When the crash came in 87 I mourned the fact I would never be a yuppie. Personally I think it was the fact that I was a bit of a geek at school, and so knowing I'd never be an All Black, getting rich was the only way I could stick it to all those f**kers who were making my life a misery at the time.
I still like money, don't get me wrong, but I have long since realised that it's more important to be happy doing what you do. Hence why I'm no longer a lawyer. Fortunately my chosen replacement profession isn't tooooo slummy.
@Steve - nice to see you and Sofie the other night, and thank you again for the lovely presents. Can't wait to dress him up in his red woolly jersey. Take that, Perigo.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to Richard Aston,
Damian discovered girls.
And perhaps drugs and rock and roll.
Sorry for the late reply here, I've been swamped with raising a newborn. It's awesome!
But let's see. No, I fell out with the Libertarianz, well, Lindsay Perigo who'd been something of a broadcasting and political mentor (I still think he's very capable at least at the former) when the whole thing started getting a bit silly, a bit paranoid, and quite literally "you're either with us or against us". Lindsay would claim he could prove objectively that certain music, or art, or literature, was better than others, and that the other stuff was 'evil', but often it was just repeating what Ayn Rand had said. Ayn Rand, because she's such an awesome literary talent.
And it got especially silly when I said I didn't agree with the stated policy to change the name of NZ to "New Freeland" on the event of a Libertarianz victory. Apparently that was objectively, rationally the only correct course, and disagreement was treason. So I thought, fuck that.
I still believe in lots of libertarian philosophy, especially the social freedoms (the freedom to have sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll). And I would believe more in the economic freedoms if we weren't starting from such an inherently inequitable position. "Land is theft", that was probably my real awakening (although I have a nice little bit of it in Mt Roskill). Give me a 100% inheritance tax and we'll talk. But simply cementing the existing inequities ain't freedom, not by my definition.
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Thanks all.
@Ben - baby's mum (Rebecca) is doing great. Handled the whole process, which of course ended up being absolutely nothing like anyone had planned, beautifully.
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Righto, you folks heard it here first, for those of you who are interested in such things - we had a little boy in the wee smalls of last night. Made a rather dramatic, surgically enhanced entrance, let's hope the similarities to a Kardashian end there.
I'm blown away. It's awesome. I kinda want to hold him aloft like that scene from the Lion King, and/or run around the neighbourhood going "see!... See!... See!"
I'm sure I'll have plenty of opportunity to do both. Thanks all for your good wishes. Whoever had money on 2/11/2011 you can collect at the booth on your way out.
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I'm not 'freaked out by Winston'. Nor is my mind closed. But every time I open it to what he has to say (most recently last Saturday on 'The Nation'), he re-affirms fairly quickly the opinion I've devised of my own making through 15 or so years of working in and around the political media and Winston Peters himself. It's condescending in the extreme to assume I'm simply following some agreed narrative.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Back to this again? I give up.
It's happened before? I haven't been around PAS much these past few months, so that's new to me, must just be a happy coincidence that I've arrived at the same conclusion others obviously have in the past.
So, yeah, I'm over it too.