Posts by Joe Wylie
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. . . as opposed to the rather toxic cult of personality and ego that passes for modern journalism.
And how different again from teh interhosen, where anonymous and pseudonymous commenters are regularly scolded for their failure to fully front up.
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The easter bunny .....now that's a sect i wouldn't fuck with.
Damn right:
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Thanks for the pictures link Tinshed. For some reason I was reminded of these, from a hot summer day more than fourty years ago. If you have the time, do click for the larger images, it's almost like time travel:
http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2008/06/pictures-from-train.html
America as personified by Bush - morally bankrupt and contemptuous of ordinary people - may well be in decline, but the sheer hope and common decency in the face of tragedy, so apparent in those old pictures, surely endures. In absolute terms RFK may not have deserved to be the focus of such hope any more than does Obama, but America, in decline or not, deserves better than the smug and soulless cynicism of the past eight years.
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I really hate cheap shots at Jimmy Carter. They bring Teh Stupid.
That is all.That, along with 'Obambi', is nothing more than the phantom twitchings of a severed dittohead.
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Mike Dooley was a powerhouse unlike any other I've seen.
Amen to that.
If drummers are athletes then Victor "Moulty" Moulton deserves some kind of special olympics award:
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Joe, security stopped you on campus?
Back in February, I was collecting an interloan. A goon I'd never seen before. From his gloating manner he seemed convinced he had a live one. I felt I was entitled to know just what it was about me that lead him to pick on me.
"I've got the right to question anyone," he huffed.I believe this kind of low-key thuggery is pretty much an extension of the Sharp & Strongman vision for UC. Since that incident I'm outside the tent pissing in.
Anyway, excuse me, back to topic.
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3:10 pm Philosophy and Religious Studies seminar. Grant Tavinor (Lincoln University) on The moral narratives of videogames.
Should you decide to attend, make sure you have some form of valid uni ID. I can personally attest that an encounter with certain of the segway-riding goons who may take exception to the cut of your jib can make a visit to the Ilam campus a minor nasty experience.
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Giovanni:
As for the idea that good television presenters aren't plentiful because it's harder than it looks... it seems to me there's always the exact same number at any one time, enough to fill the available slots. And honestly they all blend into the same presenter as far as I'm concerned. Their chief instruction seems to be "go and be reasurringly bland".Looks that way to me too, but thanks to Lindsay Perigo I realise that it's because they all have that vietchian superman factor. His singularly penetrating insight enables him to discern that each one has risen to their station by virtue of being a rare but subtle jewel of nature. Damn me for ever mistaking them for jumped-up bogans.
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And given the depth of hatred there still is for her in the UK, she would probably be wise to take precautions to prevent people from taking their revenge after she's dead.
Wisdom's hardly an option for Maggie any more. While she's occasionally wheeled out so that young fogies may touch the hem of her garment, she's achieved a state much like those mummified communist despots, only she's not technically dead.
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I saw Pope Paul VI pass through Taylor Square on his way to Randwick raceourse during his 1970 Sydney stopover. The Italian family from the shop next door became highly emotional as they received the Papal blessing from Il Papa in his Popemobile, with black-clad granny shedding real tears like one of those miraculous statues that Catholics are said to be so fond of.
After the Pope had passed by a South Sydney Council garbage truck hove into view, with the garbos blessing the crowd from atop the trash. The devout catholics, including Italian granny, weren't in the least offended - they seemed to enjoy the joke as much as the infidels.