Posts by Emma Hart
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Maybe the Values Party had different things to say in its time - free love was a bigger cause back then, rather than something people just got on with.
I was a bit young when my mother was involved with Values. I remember communes and growing your own veggies - maybe we are going around in a circle.
You need a certain combination of things, I think, to get a party like this. Won't happen here under current circumstances, because the social conservatives haven't been strong enough. And yeah, Australia's voting system means it's worth setting up a small party.
I don't think we're as open and liberal about sex as we like to think we are, either. Vanilla privilege (one NSFW picture) is still going pretty strong.
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The only DVD commentaries I've found to be worth a damn are the ones that talk about the actual film-making process.
The only things I bother with commentary on are the collected Whedonverse. I could sit and listen to him talk about the story-telling and character-building processes for hours. But I am a massive fangrrl.
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Where you wrote "Australia made me a political party" I equivocated and it took me another five paragraphs to realise you're not running for office across the ditch. Which is a pity - for them.
Aren't you lovely. Here, have a pony.
I wonder how far I could get on a platform of 'not being Pauline Hanson'.
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I heard the last ten minutes of the game in a taxi en route to a Statistics NZ lock up on the producer prices index (they're up, in case you were wondering).
HUGE buzz. (the game, not the PPI)
I also caught the last ten minutes, on the bedroom radio. Orsome.
And hey Shep, since we moved I go down Cheyenne St pretty much every day.
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i wonder if there's a market for half-pissed rants? rb?
Two words. Steve Braunias.
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Only if you promise to wear shoes. :)
Ah, well, it was a thought.
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Ack. Brett Lee. The day he released that Bollywood single was one of the best days of my life, because it gave me something to snigger over forever.
Oh Megan, we so have to go out drinking one day. I cackled gleefully, then emailed the video to an Aussie friend of mine who lives in London and sent her into an apopleptic fit. Good times.
Grant Fox. God I hated Grant Fox, and I really hated the way Auckland played back then, three points at a time. I continued to hate Richard Loe after he started playing for Canterbury because he was still a total prick.
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All because what the English language has to offer me is the inadequate word "partner" (no, we're not in business together)
For a long time, I referred to my partner as my lover. For some reason, that seriously weirds people out.
but for me the point is always that Peg Oliveira and Jennifer Vickery got to make a real choice about their lives, and their commitment to each other.
Me too, couldn't agree more.
The two bits of excitement I had on election night (that were results-related) was watching the tight battle in the electorate we were drinking in, and seeing Charles push Peter Dunne so hard in Ohariu. Go him.
See, positivity. We had our neighbour's stereo confiscated before lunchtime today. Now they're working on losing the second one.
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I have five weddings to go to next year. I am already stocking up on shoes.
We have a wedding to go to at Alberton. They say no stilettos. Not a problem.
treat those friends really well - IMHO you're not allowed to ask someone to help you move more than once a decade, roll out the good pizza, and the good beer at the end
Any time anyone has moved in the last decade or so, we've offered to help. Paybacks are quite nice, akshully.
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It's fine to lightly mock her though :)
In a white wine sauce?