Posts by Emma Hart
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"don't tell me those man-tits are real..."
While Wrath of Khan is a tour de force of over-acting and I love it, best to stick with the original Space Seed, and marvel over the astonishing man-porn of Khan's costuming. Those man-tits are real. And prominently displayed as much as possible.
Time for a commemorative "KHAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!"
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He was more than just one man, he was half the bloody side!
We actually use the phrase 'hey Whitey, that's my rabbit' around the house when appropriate.
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Mine's sort of a scrambled MEEP, as several hundred smart arse comments try to escape my mouth all at the same time.
Indeed, that's it exactly.
Also I know all the lyrics to that Paul Kelly Bradman song. I feel so sad and geeky right now...
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Megan, quit that!
Actually, cheers for sharing the horror. The more people who know what I'm talking about when I make the noise I make when referring to that video, the better.
this is my favourite cricket-related *song*, at least
Oh, ace. Brilliant.
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it takes a bold man to explain to his wife that yes, even though it's an amazing summer's day outside he's gonna spend it all inside in front of the telly, and that in fact it's her turn to look after the kids all day.
LOL
Not a hope. The two days those games were on Prime, the kids were under orders to look after their own selves.
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Can you imagine the scrap over which country keeps to keep 'normal time' while the rest of us all have to shift?
Queensland won't budge, I'll tell you that now.
It was a joke, surely?
And so was that, surely.
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Leave the house and exercise for at least an hour a day. A long walk is not only good for the body...
Not so good for my body I found, I always ended up at the local bakery.
Oddly, I went for a nice walk today which really cheered me up. The staff at the local bakery are so nice.
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Jesus replies from Glenfield: "If God wanted Emma Hart to swan round in her underwear all day, He would have said so in His Bible. It is people like her who are bringing our society to ruination and she is beyond..........."
Heheh, underwear, sorry?
Actually, this is the first time I've done a satirical or humourous column for PA where I haven't either Got Letters, or had someone in the comments thread utterly fail the Sense of Humour test. I assume it's universal to all PA writers that they occasionally get emails of Your Views quality.
When I write here, I certainly write with the audience in mind. I find myself trying to work out what people will pick up and run with in comments.
When I write fiction, however, I don't have a constant awareness of audience. That's when I get to write to please myself.
I can see both sides of this individual/collaborative art thing. At Bardic Web, when we're working out what to write, doing plotting, etc, we all bounce ideas off each other. Even though there's a designated leader, it's genuinely collaborative. We make ideas together that none of us could come up with alone.
But when you actually get down to the writing, it's just you, a keyboard, a blank piece of 'paper' and a little blinking cursor. The work that's done there is completely individual.
(hey, it beats banging my head against the wall trying to moderate user behaviour in copyright threads ...)
Mff, users. That's a whole 'nother whiney post. One of the things I don't have a nice slang label for is 'people who behave just like trolls but who are actually entirely sincere'.
(I spent the morning at BW dealing with a very pissy user who wanted to make a submission for our 'best of' book but 'hadn't been told' where to send it or how. That information was in three different places, including the post he was replying to.)
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I'm sure others will disagree but I've never seen the point of visiting Akaroa.
Cheese.
Also there's an old French cemetery over there which is lovely if you like old cemeteries which personally I can be a bit obsessive about. And a Dissenters cemetery for the naughty people.
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A few hours laters he replied, more or less like this:
I've been boggled by the way that people who live in a country that contains different time-zones can be so unable to handle the idea of people living in different time-zones.
Most are fine, of course. And more can cope with a difference of a few hours. But there are a few whose heads obviously melt when trying to deal with the concept that you're talking to them from the future .