Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Hard News: Media data, in reply to Yamis,
I got a similar letter from them. Must be their stock standard response.
It is a load of cobblers to claim that 'most companies ... In the same manner'. Only where there is a complete monopoly and nil competition for lay services.I recently was sent a market research survey asking for my opinion of Sky. A bit of a mistake sending it to me!
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Hard News: Holiday Music: Pop TV Lives, in reply to Ethan Tucker,
This would be Mark Ellen and David Hepworth of the late--and much lamented-- The Word magazine?
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Ah, MTV. What a bloody disgrace it is today but I recall its beginnings, when I began my PhD studies in Ohio in late 1979. Seeing Prince and Little Red Corvette for the first time! Hearing Tom Waits The Piano is Drunken, which a local sleazy bar used to close down proceedings in the early hours of the morning .....
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Of new music: thoughtful son in London sent me a CD of Public Service Broadcasting (the British group, that is). An interesting venture--inserts of 1940/50s news audio and old films (eg Night train), over driving instrumentals?
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One of the biggest failures of the last Labour govt (remember them?) was their inability or unwillingness to reign in and regulate monopolistic Sky. Maharey needed to be braver but I guess it has difficult when you have a full-time lobbyist (Tony O'Brien) in the house, smoozing and giving favours in the name of a corporation. Corruption, I call it,
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to David Hood,
Southern Right Whale ....heading left?
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to BenWilson,
Looking for their relative, who was warming in your oven?
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Hard News: Karen, and being kind, in reply to Russell Brown,
What a wonderful story about your brother-in-law, Russell.
Peter, Josephine's father, stirred a little on Christmas Day and scoffed down smoked salmon, after not eating for days. Must have sparked memories of Christmas' past in the old fellow.
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Thank you, Russell.
This is strangely detached Christmas as we are in Nelson on a deathbed watch. Josephine's father is in steep decline, stricken with cancer, after living a life as a rugged forester. It may be today or tomorrow or next week but I am returning home today as I don't want to leave my daughter alone any more days. Josephine will stay on with her sisters, So, 'Merry Christmas' seems a bit forced. -
Dear Nelson PA'rs; I will be in Nelson for the new few days as father-in-law is in steep decline and meeting up a drink at a local bar would be a welcome relief from the joys of the rest home. Just email me at lealand@waikato.ac.nz if it is possible or desired.