Posts by Craig Young
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Shouldn't that be
exit stage left, then starts wandering all over the place, then finally falls off the stage...???
Craig Y
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Oh, that really wouldn't surprise me. I remember Trotter when our paths briefly crossed at the inaugural NLP conference in the late eighties. At that point, he was NLP Treasurer before deciding that Anderton was too organised for him, and wandering off.
The man is the right's tame leftoid. He pursues ridiculously sectarian politics and has no sense of tactics or strategy. Witness his latest silly remarks about David Cunliffe, while studiously ignoring what the ALP's byzantine factionalism is doing to their re-election chances.
Craig Y
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Arggh!!! Have been reading Trotter's blog!!! The pain, the agony, the utter strategic and tactical void, the lame vintage seventies monofocal old leftism that labels any pluralist New Left stance identity politics, regardless of its actual dimensions of distributive justice!
Oh, I feel so unclean...
Craig Y ;)
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ACT's parallel universe is rather small and extremely dense, which may result in its contraction and oblivion as soon as 2011. Think about it. If the Nats get into bed with the Maori Party, they end up calving off a large chunk of the vote, as long as Tariana Turia is there. Once she goes, though, watch out.
Craig Y
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I'm sorry. I meant no ill-will to aficionados of classic early German cinema by comparing Stephen Franks to Nosferatu, even if the resemblance is undeniable.
Craig Y
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And let's face it. All it would take would be a National Party that decides to stand someone normal and liberal in Epsom in 2011 and ACT would be Mad Dog Tucker...
Craig Y ;)
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I think the problem is that ACT consists primarily of three factions- one is the prehensile populists, like Hide, Boscawen and Garrett, who will do or say anything to get re-elected. Another is the hardline New Right advocates of fiscal responsibility, namely Heather Roy and Sir Roger Douglas, who want ACT to return to their core values. The third and final one are the neoconservative rent a bigots, like the thankfully exiled Mad Moo Newman and Stephen (Nosferatu) Franks, who seemed determined to alienate centre-right social liberals from the party while they were in Parliament. Faction three has been knocked out- so factions one and two are vying for the party, and tearing it apart...
Craig Y
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I thought Smiths Dream had already happened. It was called the Muldoon era (1975-1984), especially the 1981 Springbok Tour part of it? We don't have many dystopias set here, do we? What about Janet Frame's last third of Intensive Care, set in a disability cleansing post-apocalyptic NZ?
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Quite liked Survivors, which I watched instead of TINML. What the hell, there'll be an encore screening of TINML sooner or later, so gave it a miss. Nice build up and the mise en scene was absolutely mindblowing. Shame it starts to go downhill in its second series.
Grrrr!!! Want Being Human to start screening!!! Froth, growwlll!!!
Craig Y
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I also suggest that we bombard Prime and or the listings magazines with questions about when the network in question intends to screen BH, for that matter.