Posts by Joe Wylie
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Why would you cut night classes and special needs schools (like Aorangi Primary in Chch) just to save money - the psychic equivalent of boring holes in the lifeboats...
Ah, but the responsibility's yours Ian. While you personally might not have actively whored after Laura Norder, like all of us who are not privileged to be the One True Fanboy, you bear the collective stain. Kind of like original sin. When they come for your firstborn there's nothing for it but to man up and take it for the team.
Though meditation might just help. -
Great story Steven. Re. the Rose Noelle, which if I recall correctly flipped over about the same time as Tienanmen Square happened: Two of the crew, who were friends before the voyage, told their story in the Listener. It didn't show the skipper in a good light. The poor guy was on the bones of his bum, living in the garage of an Auckland journalist who believed his eventual book would be a goer.
Seems her instincts were geared to a less sceptical age, when his tale could have been hyped as one of a plucky survivor. As it happens, he's remembered as an inept seaman who wasn't up to the resonsibility of skippering a seagoing yacht.
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because my personal narrative reads like a book thats been retrieved from bilge water, for now I'l just say: when I was out in the sea, I wasn't "at risk" of being sent to boot camp.
If you were keel-hauled it would have been because you deserved it.
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- my hard drive
died and I have lost all my emails, contacts and
other data and about 5 months worth of work ...
...sob ...sigh
- I must back up
- I must back up...
- tsumi, tsumi
- digital tsunami...O shit.
Will email you as soon as I'm done backing up. -
"Don't give me your opinion. Give me your experience."
Excellent. As someone whose identity now eludes me once said, there are few things more useless than an opinion. Experience, on the other hand . . .
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Not all whale oil was clean burning. Some of it stank.
Now I'm confused. Shouldn't this be in the Garrett/Oil rig thread?
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I do think Hide did handle this a damn sight better than either Goff or Key handled the allegations around Richard Worth. I know Rodders isn't exactly the flavour of the month around these parts, but a little credit where credit is due!
When Garrett blundered in here a few weeks back I did offer that the more one knew about the man, the greater the sympathy one felt for Rodney Hide. With a track record like this, it'll be a miracle if the buffoon doesn't self-destruct before the year's out
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Geoff Lealand:
Someone not so involved in the film business (and a possible recipient of NZFC funding) but with a good grasp of the issues-- Roger Horrocks, for example.
That's quite an inspired suggestion.
Sofie Bribiesca:Thanx Joe. MORE! WE WANT MORE!:)
No problem. More skateboards than you can poke a stick at. (Chris Knox had a very nice one last year).
Meanwhile, trust that the post-stone recovery is progressing apace. -
You two are so clever...
You're very kind Kerry. One thing that 30+ years involved in sort-of film production has taught me - it's the writers who are the really clever ones.
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Thanx Sofie :)