Posts by giovanni tiso
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Yeah, but you can't beat this guy.
I heard he was going to change his name... to Fred.
(ah ah ah, I've been waiting 30 years for a chance to use this joke)
But seriously, at least it's his surname, not a lot his parents could have done about that. On the other hand, if Rob Morrow should ever get murdered, I'd say his daughter Tu has an excellent motive. And extentuating circumstances.
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Our Favourite Fundilicious Friend is over Obama.
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He's Schrodinger's Candidate: in a state of simultaneously holding every possible policy position - right up until we open the box.
Or maybe he's Heisenberg's candidate: if you know where he stands on foreign policy, you cannot know what he's going to do to the ECA; if you pin him down on Kyoto, you forget his stance on Kiwisaver. And so forth.
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I wanted it broken into three different questions:
Yes, the issue was how they smuggled hard labour in with something that one could get along with. It's a bit like asking "Are you in favour of peace on earth, and killing everyone named Alfred?"
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Oh dear. I don't seem to have avoided the ranting very well.
Hey, don't look at me, I love the rant, I asked for the rant. You're just snubbing your fan base.
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Yes, apparently Attie spoke to Axelrod at the time, although it seems a bit fishy to me. There have been a mountain of coincidences, though, peep on any West Wing forum for the details.
So very much like The West Wing, then. Any chance they'll revive it, you reckon?
No need to. They can simply film the first year of Obama's presidency and package it as "season 8".
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Yeah, but *they're* about to elect this groundbreaking historically significant dude, and *we're* about to elect... John Key. Quality control: EPIC FAIL. :)
Yeah, but shall I run through the roll call of women on top of the last few years? Plus my dear Georgina. And there has been a Maori prime minister - although admittedly not in New Zealand.
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Oh Giovanni, what do you have against Snuffy Walden?
Everything, other than the name. Since it's not even his real name, so he chose to be called Snuffy, and if you're in the business of composing music and conducting orchestras and still don't mind being referred to with a name that conjures small dogs and soft toys, you must be okay as a person.
But such a crap composer.
Ah, one of my favourite whimsical names in American TV credits. (I'm also pretty fond of 'Harley Tat', who worked on Blind Date.)
Fabiomassimo Dell'Orco from Rome. Thuliso Dingwall from The Wire.
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but I'm not an idiot: he's not likely to 'change everything', or even most things.
He's already changed campaigning quite a bit, and the things that should and shouldn't be said, that do and do not work, much as he was helped by the great bumbling clownshow that was the McCain campaign, and by the cellar-dwelling popularity numbers of the incumbent. (Although, let's not forget he beat Hillary - as in The Wire, the fight for the democratic nomination was always going to be the thing this year, and she was a pretty awesome foe).
So, cynical as I may be and far further to the left ideologically than Obama... let's wait and see. We might find that with a broad mandate - Tuesday will tell us what that map looks like - with more democrats than ever in Congress, with a crisis on his hands, he might manage in fact to transform the country and the conventional wisdom regaring politics (from the local level up) quite a bit. I'd argue he's well on his way already. But it will be interesting, oh yes. Like watching the West Wing, but without the bloody soundtrack.
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Honestly, they're like Black Cap supporters expecting another batting collapse.
Heh. Except they don't seem to have realised that Ponting is playing for our team this time. (Or should I say Laxman?).
This thing's in the bag, has been for weeks.