Posts by Damian Christie
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Christopher - I don't read Red Alert so I can't comment specifically - but yes, I'd suggest if an MP is spending heaps of their daytime in on- line forums, they're wasting it.
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I've suggested to David he comes back and addresses some of these very valid points, whether he does I guess depends on how much downtime your average MP has for following discussion forums - in my experience they're pretty busy - I'd be more worried if an MP did sit here all day doing a back and forth...
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So the interview would have been somehow more hard-hitting and/or less vacuous and cozy if we'd mentioned Outlook for Thursday? Thanks for the tip.
...And if you actually listen to what he's saying, he's calling for the Lord's Prayer in Parliament to stay because it's a tradition - he says there wouldn't even be a debate about it being ditched if it were a karakia...
And I'm no expert, but 'Bliss' is probably missing off the Dave Dobbyn album because, um, Dave Dobbyn doesn't sing it...
So, um, all good points then.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh........... maybe we need to start using our <sarcasm> and <irony> tags around here again. I just had someone commenting on my facebook that they thought the new santa looked like John Banks. But of course my facebook friends are no public address readers :)
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I'm wondering if I was too subtle on this one. You do realise Russell, that all I did was photoshop John Banks' face onto the old Santa? I was kinda making a joke about what happens when the Auckland City Council spends money or something, I don't know. I just wanted to see what it looked like... as you were.
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I recognise at least one of the people holding the fake signs... Mr Barbosa, take a bow... will we be expecting this to pop up as a satirical piece on this week's Media 7 then?
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I like this bit from Cathy's latest post:
Unless the receptionist put me through to a phantom line, that staff member works in Sydney.
Hmm. That's a pretty big 'unless' to dismiss so easily, no? You see, when you're on the trail of something this big - a memo reminding reporters to be careful and adhere to basic guidelines - why wouldn't you assume that APN have set up phantom lines to throw you off the scent? They're a big corporate, it'd be easy for them to do. Next thing you're believing this so-called "Tammie Hunt" exists, and then they've gotcha!... you're having your brain sucked out by an anal probe and the reptilian shapeshifters have won...
This has all the babbling paranoid subtext of Havoc's recent appearance on Media 7.
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@Kyle
...last night Henry read out a BSA finding on Close Up, which I had the misfortune to be watching.
At the end of reading it out he sneered and screwed up the bit of paper he was reading from and tossed it aside and made some comment.
Such. a. dick.
While we're talking about accuracy and media and stuff, I should point out (I just went and watched Close Up from last night to check):
1. Paul Henry doesn't do Close Up any more. That man was Mike Hosking.
2. At the end he didn't sneer (IMO), definitely didn't screw up the piece of paper and certainly didn't toss it aside. He placed it on the laptop in front of him and tapped it with his finger.
3. He did make a comment though. He mistakenly turned to another camera and then realised his mistake and turned back, and said "oh don't I turn? Because that was so serious?" Facetious or self-deprecating cos he'd just fucked up his eyeline? Dunno.
4. Such. A. Dick? Sure, why not, but that was obviously just your opinion from the get go, as the facts don't add to it.
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Russell Brown and Damian Christie talk to music legend Dave Dobbyn about his new best of compilation celebrating 30 years, and a new book of songs. (Includes Acoustic Performance)
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Damian Christie reports from Banda Aceh, Sumatra about the impact of the Boxing Day Tsunami, 5 years on.